has turned knocking off its leading characters into a blood sport., you can’t get too attached,” says Hempstead Wright of all the slaughter, which one fan site has estimated to be in the range of 174,373 bodies over the show’s first seven seasons.To say Monday’s 82-minute episode added substantially to the body count is somewhat of an understatement, but for Hempstead Wright it was also a relief - he was finally able to watch it as a fan and talk about it.
“I was involved in very little of that [episode],” he adds. “Everyone else was there for weeks and weeks and weeks on end, so I didn’t really have a huge involvement in those crazy clashes and battle bits – I’d only read it on paper and heard it at the table read. It was incredible to get to watch it, the darkness and the chaos of it.”since he was 11.
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