Game of Thrones produced some memorable villains, but none so loathsome as Ramsay Bolton, the northern bastard who held Winterfell against Jon Snow and Sansa Stark, who tortured Theon Greyjoy into becoming a servile lapdog, who abused Sansa during their brief marriage…and I could on like that; the guy sucked.
Actor Iwan Rheon did a great job portraying Ramsay, but he’ll probably be associated with villainous characters for a while. That seems to be what Kraken Rum was thinking when it invited Rheon to take part in the Krakenory, a series where “a legion of shadowy storytellers snatched from the world of entertainment” read some of the history’s great nautical stories. Rheon reads a passage from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, where a group of sailors get absolutely wrecked by a sea beast.
Well read, sir. I wonder if Pilou Asbæk (Euron Greyjoy) would be a good option to read stories about sea monsters.
“I guess I’m not really that bothered [whether I play a good guy or a villain],” Rheon told Metro. “I just sort of look for characters that I think are interesting, and obviously if the writing is good, then it’s going to be fun. And you know, and I don’t know, I just seem to have got a couple of villains, so I guess people sort of see me as that.”
But until I played Ramsay I never considered myself as that kind of actor but then obviously everything changed. I like to play a variety of kinds of characters, but they have to be interesting, really.
But clearly, people have a certain image of Rheon when they cast him:
See what I mean?
But seriously, he is getting away a bit from that. You can see Rheon in the third season of American Gods, for example, where he plays the leprechaun Liam Doyle, who’s described as “charming” and “good-natured.” That’s movement, right?
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