Spanish interview from Cinemania

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Interview Charles Dance Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones

26/02/2014

With the release on DVD of the third season veteran actor recognizes how bad passes giving reed Peter Dinklage, Tyrion.

"This is a very dysfunctional family," said veteran Charles Dance on his family in the Game of Thrones series.  "And you can not say that the relationship between the poor Tyrion Tywin is indeed healthy."  Says the actor who loves to play Tywin, while acknowledging that spends a lot of time apologizing to Peter Dinklage.  The actor will return in the fourth season, which Canal + Series premiere on April 7, but as we await his return, we can enjoy the extras of the DVD of the third season, which has just gone on sale in Spain.

"I get to read the script and think, 'You really want me to say this?  Mother ... '.  I remember one part of the script where you had to say, 'You killed your mother coming to this world.  I wanted to take to the sea and let them do the waves go, but I let you live ... '.  And that other time she called him "little raunchy stump."  "It's horrible!  Peter is a heaven.  It is charming and has a lot of talent.  Sure that is the envy of many players because their role is great and it plays great, "he explains.  Charles Dance is sure that his character will get their due.  "I say terrible things, and certainly at the end I get my deserved, and I suspect it will be largely due to the way I've treated."

How does it feel to be part of Game of Thrones?

It's great because it invest heavily in the series.  The production values ​​are great, the scripts are really good.  We are facing a very successful series.  It is very well organized and it runs like a military operation.  It must be so because God knows how many actors involved in it and there are frames in which my character does not have to do anything happening somewhere in the Seven Kingdoms.  We start shooting the fourth season this year and one or two new characters but the team is mostly the same and have the basis in the same place, so it's great.  They attempt to maintain quality because they will continue to invest money.  They are committed to Game of Thrones, give it the resources it needs and it shows very well rewarded.

What would you say your relationship with Olenna Tyrell, played by Diana Rigg?

It's like the female version of Tywin Lannister.  We're messing around all the time.  Did together a television adaptation of Rebecca in 1997 and we have met many times.  We cachondeamos each other, it's great.  Diana plays the female version of Tywin.  She takes care of his family and mine, which I love.  It's a wonderful actress and she plays Lady Olenna brilliantly.  Working with her has been fun.

Why have not read the books on which the series is based?

Because the makers have adapted and have done a very good job.  The material we have to work is fantastic and we have to spend time trying to do something good for something better.  I think when it comes to book adaptations, unless there is considerable doubt that pose an obstacle to the interpretation, it is better that the actors do not come to the stage with original material thumbed copies of saying, "Look, I have to say this here. Why is not in the script? ".  And it is probably a good reason why that part is not in the script.  We're not writing books, we are making a TV series and David and Dan have a job, and that's what I'm working on.  If there is anything I need to know, I ask, but most of all, books are lengthy and that scares me (laughs).  No Kindle or anything like that and carry that excess baggage me pose a risk.  David and Dan have done work and I bring that up to my paper work to the screen, so that's why I do not read books.

If you have not read the books, where heard of Game of Thrones for the first time and what did you think?  ? Desconfiabas the fact that he was ranked in the fantasy genre?

We work in the old Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.  Out boats are built there, but we recorded in huge buildings, which originally paint the hulls and are perfect for use as studios.  Furthermore, soundproofed and covered sheet and are as large as Pinewood Studios where James Bond movies were filmed.  They have built huge sets there.  I did a movie called Knights, princesses and other beasts was the first to be recorded there and while we were recording were people constantly coming HBO to see if the site was suitable for a series called Game of Thrones and I had no idea anything.  So I told my agent, "What will that show?"  And I said, "Ah, it's pretty important, something from the Middle Ages and is based on a very famous ... books."  I knew nothing of books and had not heard of them, but then I ordered the storyline, not the script, but basically a synopsis of the first season and it looked interesting.  Although developed in a fantasy world, the closest point of reference is that it is medieval.  Is feudal, cruel, ruthless, corrupt and reflects the period perfectly.  It has all the right elements: violence, sex, cruelty and romance, so it has everything going for it.  God knows how many stories there with labyrinthine plots, but David and Dan have been very smart, and not only with the quality of their writing, they also know to leave the viewer hooked to the end of each episode and each season to bring what you want to see comes later, as they leave the story on hold and you want to find out what happens.

Still the story of the other characters, just to know what they are doing?

(Laughs) There are stories that have nothing to do with my character and the series when I think, "Oh, how interesting ...", and it may be in an episode in which I do not intervene.  I think I go out in eight of the ten chapters of the third season, so I'm going to Belfast to record a bit and then I'll be back.  Then others go to Morocco and there record the scenery with that wonderful girl (Daenerys Targaryen, played by Emilia Clarke) and dragons.  Well, actually that has nothing to do with me or my group, the Lannisters and is totally amazing, the truth is that it caters to the tastes of almost everyone.  If you want a good scene "ñaca ñaca", you do, if you want to see how you cut someone's head, you do, if you hear a sharp political debate, too.  The dialogue I had with Maise (Williams, who plays Arya Stark) in the second season was great.  Maise is a fantastic and talented young actress.  I was 13 when we recorded and their knowledge of the environment and its ability to not look like he was acting, which is what we all strive, is extraordinary, really fantastic.  Also, never get tired, worked for much of the day, because we have to do ten hours of television and high levels of concentration are needed, because we have a pretty tight schedule.  There are three units working all the time and in terms of programming, ie, who is available for what, where and so on, all assistant principals have to be met to solve a giant mathematical equation.  So it's like a military operation, and keep up depends on us, basically.

The series has a great mix of young actors along with other more experienced like you.  How it works?
 It works really well.  The young actors working in this series are excellent.

 Have you met George RR Martin?
 Unfortunately no.  I was in Australia when he came to UK, and unfortunately could not match.

Working in Game of Thrones occupies a large part of your time next year, but the schedule allows you to do other things ...

  Right.  I recorded a movie in Australia called Patrick, a remake of a horror movie in Australia in the 70s in which Rachel Griffiths was my daughter.  It is the second time that my daughter has done, really, because we did together a film Hilary and Jackie, which dealt with the life of Jacqueline de Pre was entitled.  She played Hilary's sister, Jacqueline, and his father did.  That was in Melbourne.  I also made ​​another HBO series called Strike Back.  I'm also writing a movie I hope to run this year, but I can not tell you anything because it is still at an early stage but it is really interesting.

And comedy, because you do comedy?

The truth is that the Sky chain commissioned a company called Baby Cow performing comedy shorts of 11 minutes are as pilot episodes.  I usually do not offer comedy often because one is what it is and if someone is seen as cruel and heartless or something, then they will ask you to redo it.  But this project, called Bad Grandad is a manager of rock bands old and retired and roll.  Wear the ponytail of a man who is balding, earrings, tattoos, many fur with studs and exotic things growing in the closet of the upstairs room of the house I share with my daughter and her husband suffered.  This character has a lot of shooting and I hope you accept that you have a history and a future, and it's been fun doing this role.  If I could I gave him life for longer, I would have gladly.  It's very funny and very fun to play.

But comedy did when you started ...

Yes, I did comedy, I rolled a very funny comedy called Turning Over a few years it was the adventures of a unit of documentary filmmaking in India does.  I have also done comedy in the theater, but increasingly it seems that because of how I make my living, ie doing something that is not comedy, but other things.  I think I'm a little old for romantic roles of man, so are more solemn roles.  I guess that's how it fits my face and I think I'm good enough.  But if the opportunity comes to do something totally and completely different, accept, of course yes.

Do you think we live in a great time television?

Right.  And all the best comes from the U.S..  The days when we could say that in the UK we had the best television in the world and passed.  Occasionally miss something good on British television, but best of all it does in America is amazing, and most is HBO. Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire or Mad Men ... the production values are great and the quality of the script are Lovely.

What do you think of the production design of Game of Thrones?

 It's very, very.  When I go to the sets I have to touch things to make sure they are not marble or granite.  The way you decorate and care you put into every detail is sensational, really good.  You walk in and think, "Okay, I know where I am."  They are dedicated to creating the environment.  We also have some great directors of photography, and all they can do their job very well.  When I look I see monitors that works very well and fully believe in these worlds that are created in a warehouse in Belfast.

 There are different directors each season.  Do you think this disrupts the continuity?

 Normally he is a director for each block of two or three episodes.  But the style of the house was completed in the first season, so I have a point of reference, at least, have to maintain, although I do not feel handicapped by it.  Most Americans are good and come from U.S. television, technically, they are fashionable.  Also very good at working with actors, which is not always the case.  Sometimes you play technically skilled managers who have no idea how to deal with peculiar creatures and actors.  But we have had some very good directors, specifically, there is one, David Nutter, who returns every season and always glad to see.  You feel very safe with these directors.

Like playing a character for a long time?

 I had not done since The Crown Jewel and is great because in the first season create a basic kind of character and then look forward to see what the creators are planning for my next season.  They know the characters very well and I do not know what to write for each of us individually, but we know the attributes that show and I have reached a point in which they write the dialogues, will know how sound when out of my mouth.  Some of us live with these characters and it's great because you feel you're on solid ground.  I think I know how Tywin Lannister.

from : http://www.cinemania.es/blogs/detalle/20839/entrevista-charles-dance-tywin-lannister-en-juego-de-tronos