"Super fun. Filthy and flirtatious. Unshockable.... (He could be) intimidating and without thought you raise your game around Charles."
Lena Headey
"Luckily for us, Charles Dance is still with us, hale and hearty. He is a lovely human being, an absolute pleasure to work with and spend time with. We hope to do a great deal of both in the future".
"To see Tyrion’s entire, troubled relationship with his father distilled into three minutes, that’s a lot of weight to put on two actors. It was our good fortune that the two actors in question were Peter and Charles, who are both power-lifters in this category."
Benioff and Weiss
Dance is one of several actors on the show who read only the scripts, not George R.R. Martin’s novels. He says he only learned his character’s fate last season. “Someone in the street came up and said, ‘You got this great death scene,’” Dance recalls. “And I said, ‘Have I? What was the manner of my death?’ And then he told me, and I said, ‘Oh, right!’ So then I went into a bookshop and a grabbed a book and I said, ‘Oh, I see.’ It’s quite spectacular.”
“[Tywin is] a hypocrite as well, I’m afraid,” Dance sighed. “He’s a ‘do what I say, not what I do."
“As far as Tywin is concerned, [Tyrion] is the one area he’s failed in because in 15th, 16th century in Europe, any imperfection — whether it’s dwarfism, blindness, a child born unperfected — ideally, you smother them, get rid of them, put them in a bucket or anything,” said the actor. “He let Tyrion live, to his astonishment, and Tyrion is the brightest of his three children, the wittiest, and the cleverest. Those are the qualities that he would admire if he weren’t a dwarf, but the fact that he’s a dwarf is a continual reminder of his failure. So as long as he’s alive he’s going to treat him like sh– –it’s horrible.”
“I’m not one of these actors that tries to find the good in a character,” Dance added. “If a character is a sh–, he’s a sh–, and you play him full on as a sh– – don’t try and make him nice, you play him full on.”
As for his absence next season, Dance had one hope for his character: “I just hope I get a state funeral afterwards as well. They should start season 5 with a great f–k-off funeral for Tywin.”
Reactions about Tywin death :
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau :
Tywin is undoubtedly a big deal to the continuing drama...“For me, it’s just a huge loss because… he’s been such a formidable presence, both as the character, Tywin Lannister, whose just such an amazing character, and then, of course, what Charles brings ever since he had his first scene, I think, in Episode 7 of Season 1.... “He has really anchored the power of the Lannisters, so it is a huge loss for the show, but also, it clearly changes the whole dynamic in this world.
“Up until the last [episode], the Lannisters have definitely been the most powerful, and with him gone, and all the other stuff that happens in Episode 10, who knows what’s going to happen next. But I’m going to miss Charles for sure, ‘cause I just think that, you know, you don’t get any finer actors than him.”
“He was just amazing to work with. Also… without any lines, you got a feeling that clearly, this was something Tywin had planned. He was expecting Jaime to just show up,” Nikolaj told Access of the Tywin/Jaime moment earlier in Season 4. “But also, just what I loved, in all the seasons, is that even though he’s such a stern and hard man, I still got the feeling that… as much as he disliked his other son, he had hopes and… he at least wanted Jaime to do well, to kind of step up in his world, to take on his mantle. So there was some kind of love there in a very weird way.”
“He’s a lot of fun. He has a very, very dry sense of humor, but he’s a lot of fun,”... “He just has an exquisite sense of humor.”
Sophie Turner
“That was sad because Charles is such a valued cast member and he’s a really funny, great guy,”
“I haven’t had that many scenes with Charles, but he’s really funny,” she added. “I remember the first time I met him, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Charles Dance.’ And he walks in the room and he’s like, ‘Hi, I’m Charlie. Nice to meet you,’” ....“He’s really, really nice.”
Gwendoline Christie
"...the exits of Sibel Kekilli's Shae and Charles’ Tywin, are just a reminder that no one is safe in “Game of Thrones".....and Charles is another icon and I am so sorry to be saying goodbye to those two, but it’s just all part of the wonderful world of ‘Game of Thrones,’” Gwendoline said. “Don’t’ get too close to anyone.”
http://www.accesshollywood.com/game-of-thrones-stars-react-to-huge-character-exit-in-season-4-
