Harry Lloyd can’t stop talking about Game of Thrones
December 31, 2009 by Jon Hunter · Leave a Comment
Our Harry just can’t seem to stop talking about Game of Thrones at the moment, in this quiet season of Game of Thrones news between the filming and the decision in March, when websites such of this are looking round for Game of Thrones related news items. Harry Lloyd has popped uop with two comments the week before Christmas.
The first in the Gay times
Refreshingly down to Earth for a 26-year-old in his position, he refers to himself as ‘a worrier’. Which makes it all the more gratifying to see him talk about his current other project, a pilot for a new HBO fantasy series, Game of Thrones, based on a range of books. He likens it to a less-magical Lord of the Rings (‘big battles, political and quite dark’) and gleefully describes his role as ‘a brilliant fucking character, a really nice nasty part’.
It’s something he returns to throughout our interview, each time becoming so animated that I actually want to put in a call to the television network and demand they commission a full series as it clearly means that much to him.
and the second in an interesting piece in observer whihc can be found on the guarduian website.
Lloyd, meanwhile, is used to playing around with the dark side. His most talked-about part to date has been a scene-stealing role as a Doctor Who villain (in The Family of Blood episode), and he has just recorded a pilot for HBO’s Game of Thrones, a major ensemble piece crammed with British luminaries which Lloyd describes with relish as a “dark, political intrigue set in a fantasy world… with incest”.
First, though, there’s the stage-run of The Little Dog Laughed, with Tamsin Greig and Rupert Friend in January. Still, for this former Eton schoolboy, the stage can hold no new fears. “When I first started doing drama I had to play the girls because my voice hadn’t broken,” he remembers. “I hated it.
I say the article is interesting as Harry is noted as one of the two up and coming Brtitish actors to watch this year. If this is true it must mean that Game of Thrones must be seen as a project to watch this year. Its also really encouraging to see Harry’s enthusaism for the project.
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