Sunday ’s long - expect season 8premiereofGame of Thronesmay not have been as action - pack as some fan were hoping for , but it did not disappoint — especially in terms of its many anticipated reunions and major secret plan reveals . At the top of that list of highly guarded secret finally coming to luminance was Jon Snow learning his genuine bloodline , and realizing that not only is he the true successor to the Iron Throne , but that the love of his life also chance to be a blood relation .
Though we assume that finical bombshell would be dropped by and by in the time of year , Jon ’s skillful friend , Samwell Tarly , was given the inauspicious task of sharing this information with Jon … and deliver it not long after being inform by Daenerys Targaryen that she had killed both his father and brother for refusing to deflect the knee .
Sam has certainly pace up his biz since his earliest days onGame of Thrones ; we ’ve seen him rescue Gilly and her son , suffer up to his hard - nosed father , become a Maester , expand his knowledge of the history of Westeros , and even toss off some White Walkers . Still , having to tell Jon Snow the truth about his parentage — and what Daenerys is equal to of — was no easy job for Sam , or for John Bradley ( the actor who impersonate him ) .
In an audience withVariety , Bradley shared how he andKit Haringtonrehearsed their stemma over and over again to get the shot just correctly , and that he had to split it into two component in his judgment . The first part of the shot would be the sweet reunion between friends and Sam telling Jon that his father and chum were killed by Daenerys . “ He just intelligibly needs to get that off his chest , ” Bradley state . The second part was the ultimate Apocalypse that the actor referred to as “ the most important while of info in the entire show . ”
“ From a performance point of persuasion it was very soft , because I have it off I had to get all of the emotions into the first one-half of the scene , and in the 2d half desert them , ” Bradley say . “ Sam has to calm himself down and explicate the situation to Jon very calmly and in terminal figure which are well-fixed to understand . He knows Jon is going to be tempestuous , he knows any blasphemy against the sainted figure of Ned Stark is going to rile Jon up . Sam ask to be as calm as potential to throw a cold blanket on that , to make Jon listen to what he has got to say . ”
The scene was plain an intense one , but Bradley promised that the net season will have some moments of levity , too .
“ It ’s an conclusion that we ’re really satisfied with , ” the 30 - year - old actor said . “ We ’re not afraid to talk about it , we ’re not dreading people seeing it or how they ’re going to oppose . Quite a few shows have been expectant and then miss on the closing curtain , and that ’s tarnished people ’s relationship with the show , but we ’re not going to do that . Ever since I first read that last page of playscript , the last varlet of season 8 , installment 6 , I have been desperate for masses to see it . I ’m gon na sense that elbow room the 2nd before it starts in five workweek ' metre . It ’s gon na give the fans and the show itself the ending they merit . ”
[ h / tVariety ]
