It goes without saying that you’re going to spend the next few months desperately seeking out Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers. You don’t actually want to find one, of course. That would be terrible. But the temptation is just too great.
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The show’s creators and actors have gone to great, unparalleled lengths to make sure you don’t succeed in your masochistic mission. According to Iain Glen, who plays Ser Jorah Mormont, the security measures have really taken their toll on everyone’s nerves.
“They’re absolutely paranoid now about anyone finding out anything about the series and spoiling it,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake.
“We weren’t allowed a written word on a page.”
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Glen said: “Everything was accessed through iPads with different security you had to get through to access it. Which caused a problem for the actors, I have to say.”
He also spoke about the table read for Game of Thrones final season, where more than 100 cast and crew looked through the final six episodes.
“This season was the first ever that we sat and read the entire arc of the story from beginning to end right through over the course of a day,” he said.
“Kit [Harington – who plays Jon Snow], if he wasn’t lying, had not read it, so he was reading it on that day for the first time.”
“Honestly, these six episodes are absolutely phenomenal. The writers really, really came up trumps. The way they pulled it all together was a real writing task.
“There were a lot of tears that day… and it’s been a season of that because it’s been a season of farewells and finishes.”
