The Game Of Thrones cast and crew are remaining tight-lipped over the upcoming series and have barely let anything slip about what fans can expect.
However, despite nothing being confirmed, it appears we already know of one new actor who will be joining the fantasy epic.
Just last month, it was rumoured that Toby Osmond would be the latest addition to the GOT family, following an update on his Spotlight CV.
The bio in the document teased at an upcoming role and claimed that Toby had finished filming for the final series of a fantasy saga.
It read: ‘Earlier this year completed filming a great royal role in the next (and final) series of an epic network fantasy saga (airing Spring 2019).’
After fans were sent into meltdown, full of excitement for a potential new face, Toby spoke to Metro.co.uk where he finally addressed the rumours.
He said: ‘Like a lot of actors, I don’t have sole control over my Spotlight CV, but there’s a few articles saying I made a slip up, and actually I did not.’
The star explained how he was busy swanning around a number of LA film festivals when the rumours started to swirl.
During a meeting with a publicist, he was informed of the ‘publicity storm’ and quickly checked to see what was going on.
He said: ‘She [the publicist] actually googled me before our meeting, which was good cause I googled her, and interestingly she had information about me that I had no idea about.
‘She was like, “oh yeah, there’s loads of articles about you,” and I was like, “what? Is there now?”’
Toby added: ‘It was quite exciting really, it was exciting, but I viewed it with some nervous trepidation I suppose.’
Chatting about his reaction when he saw his updated CV, the star said: ‘I was like, “Oh my God, ooft, yeah, this is explicit isn’t it?”
‘So, I contacted my agency and said: “Should we, urm, tone that down? Get rid of it a bit?”’
No, Toby, you most certainly shouldn’t!
We did press the actor as to what his new fantasy saga is, but he didn’t let anything slip.
However, he did tease: ‘I couldn’t possibly comment about anything else cause, urm, yeah!
‘Feel free to speculate loads, but I’m afraid I couldn’t possible comment.’
We guess we’ll just have to wait until April next year to find out if Toby is in the Game Of Thrones finale!
Until then – keep an eye out for his latest psychological thriller Stairs, where he will star alongside former Corrie star, Shayne Ward.
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