Grey Worm Actor Reveals How He Really Felt About That GoT Finale Mess
Some fans still can't believe they made us sit through eight seasons just to end it like this.
Jacob Anderson is one of those actors you probably remember solely for his role in Game of Thrones, where he played Grey Worm, though now that might change, with his major role in the new Interview with the Vampire series.
His character certainly hated how the thing went down in the series finale. Queen Daenerys, whom Grey Worm treated as a quasi-divine figure was killed, her killer was only punished with exile, the fact which Grey Worm just barely managed to stomach, and in the end he departed Westeros for Naath with Unsullied and Dothraki soldiers, to continue Daenerys' crusade there.
But what the actor thought about the controversial final season and conclusion of Game of Thrones?
"I didn't have strong feelings about the finale. I think everybody assumes that we all hated it," he said about it in an interview with PopSugar. "That's not the case at all. I remember when I first got the scripts for that final season, I was like, 'There's something kind of punk about this season. It feels risky.'"
Well, risky indeed.
Whether that risk paid off or not remains arguable – certainly Season 8 had a massive viewership, and just as certainly a low of viewers complained afterwards. In any case it is strange to assume that actors should hate movies or series just because their characters get bad or controversial endings.
And as Jacob Anderson says, he loved playing on Game of Thrones, "and I feel like it was kind of fun. I enjoyed it and it was fun to make. It was full on, but it was fun to make," he said.
Good to hear that. And for that matter it might be argued that many (though far from all) complaints about Game of Thrones' ending boil down to the characters ending up dead or miserable, even in cases, when such fates were dramatically appropriate, with earlier seasons building towards them. While the finale left Grey Worm in a dark place, to Jacob Anderson playing in Game of Thrones certainly was a big boon.