However, as season six has now proven, even 50 stab wounds to the chest doesn’t mark the end for its heroes or villains, and Charles Dance has admitted that there’s every chance he could be brought back to the HBO drama to fight another day.
“I'm not surprised by anything in Game of Thrones,” he said exclusively to Express.co.uk. “Anything is possible.”
But if there is a revival for the ruthless Warden of the West, he insisted: “I know nothing about it and neither does anybody else. If they do, they don't tell you.” .....
"Well I knew it was coming," he said. "Even without reading the books, which I didn't do because they're too thick - I don't like reading books that thick. It was actually just that somebody stopped me in the street and told me. I thought, ‘He’d better have a super ignoramus end,’ which he did. So I knew I had it coming.”
But with a career spanning over five decades, and boasting some of the most monumental moments in both film and television, Charles shouldn't be too worried.
“There are ups and downs in this business,” he admitted. “But I've been very lucky. I've hardly been out of work. You go through periods when you’re the flavour of the month and then maybe you’re not, but I just like working.
"But I mean with Game of Thrones, because of its huge success, it's pushed me up a bit. How long it will stay like that? I don't know. I'm sure there will be another television series and then someone else will be up there. That's the way it goes. There's been nothing like it in my lifetime, it's raised the level.”
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As for what’s next, despite starring in two of the biggest blockbusters of the summer – the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters and the fifth instalment of vampire franchise Underworld – Charles looks ahead refreshingly nonchalant.
“I just want to keep working. I don't have a kind of cardinal ambition. If I did I'd probably have moved to America after White Mischief or Plenty or something, but I didn't. I'm just not sufficient streetwise or ambitious enough.
“Now, the age I am, I'm playing grandparents but I'm sitting in a makeup room with 21, 22 year-olds and boy are they more streetwise than I ever was. They come out of a successful television series and bang! They're on a plane out to America where they join an army of equally ambitious people driving for position, and there's a factory making them and then they're spat out."
Charles is currently championing his secondary love after acting, sport. In 2015, he gave the England team a rousing speech ahead of the World Cup, and in April he recited an essay in front of millions at the 2016 Invictus Games. Now he’s turning his attention to cricket for this summer’s T20 tournament, held at the iconic London Ground, Lords.
Of his new campaign, in which he hopes to discourage people from holding onto their misconceptions of the sport, he explained: “It's for the benefit of people who don’t know very much about Lords other than its one for cricket. It’s an opportunity to talk about this place, which is more than just a venue for cricket, it’s got an extraordinary history.
“This T20 tournament, there’s a lot of traditionalists in cricket who think it’s not on at all - it’s like wearing anything other than white for cricket - and I just think it will open people’s eyes a bit and make them realise its actually quite exciting, and it's a fantastic game.”
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