


When they told me they wanted to put me in a Hollywood film I thought they were pulling my leg - little did I know it would be the start of a new career for me.A cadet branch of House Targaryen, founded by Daemon Blackfyre, the legitimized bastard son of King Aegon IV Targaryen by his cousin Daena Targaryen. The casting director came through the secretary of the basketball club. So they just literally approached tall basketball players? Then an hour later they said “oh, you can stop now”. They gave me a wetsuit, a mock-up of the Predator head and a balaclava helmet and just said “start running”. There’s no such thing as a standard casting, but my first experience of the casting process was just purely physical. A casting director was working on the film Alien vs. You might hear actors say ‘I was in the right place at the right time’ or ‘the phone just rang’ and it really was that simple for me. Quite simply, I had a phone call one day.

You used to be a basketball player, right? The first giant didn’t really get a name until season four but we can infer that he was Dongo. Season two I played The Mountain, and season three I started playing the giants. Well, season one I was a White Walker I think I was responsible for either the first or the second beheading of Game of Thrones. What other characters have you played in the show? I don’t suppose you got one with Wun Wun though? It seems that when characters are killed off in the show, the actors behind them usually get a courtesy call from the showrunners to deliver the bad news before they read it in the script. It was ultimately a suicide mission in the end, wasn’t it. Yeah, I didn’t really realise how popular a character he was until he died.Īnd he was key in taking back Winterfell. It must have been a nice surprise that he got such a pivotal role in the episode?
