Joe Dempsie has hinted that we might get to see his Game Of Thrones character Gendry kick some tail in the final season as a big battle approaches.
Gendry made a long-awaited return to the show last season and finally stopped all that rowing when Davos caught up to him in the Lannister armoury, and recruited him to Jon Snow’s cause.
We saw Gendry pick up his hammer and ditch the day job to join the King in the North, and keen-eyed fans noted that his weapon of choice was also the same as his father who, unknown to him, is the late King Robert Baratheon.
The little detail from season seven has stuck with fans who are clamouring to know if Gendry will ever learn about his lineage, especially after he deftly took out two men with his giant hammer in the episode Eastwatch.
While Joe didn’t give that away, he hinted that we might get to see Gendry in action in the final season.
Speaking at the premiere of his new drama Deep State, Metro.co.uk asked Joe if we’ll get to see him wielding the Baratheon hammer again when the show returns in 2019.
Joe coyly replied: ‘He might well do. There’s a battle coming, isn’t there. So wait and see.’
Back in February, a major Game Of Thrones filming location in Northern Ireland was seen up in flames, with eyewitnesses claiming a ‘big battle scene’ was being filmed in the area.
In Deep State the Skins star plays Harry Clarke, an morally upright agent who is shockingly betrayed while working for a covert branch of MI6 called The Section.
As you can probably tell from the description, it’s an action-packed show, but Joe was more concerned about getting under the skin of his character than tackling stunts.
He said: ‘We didn’t do an excessive amount of training. We found ourselves out in Morocco fairly quickly for pre-production and our stunt team, are at top top level so we had a good few sessions with them, essentially getting things like…how to clear a room. You want it to look authentic.
‘From the character side of things I don’t think there was much research that I felt I wanted to do. I felt I understood Harry as a character. I felt the ability to empathise with him. I didn’t feel I had to talk to former MI6 officers to get into his mind.
‘But you’re supposed to be highly trained and you’re supposed to look like everything is second nature, so hopefully it looks legit and if it’s not – sorry!’
Deep State starts 5 April at 9pm on FOX
