A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS

"(...) There's a lot of waiting around in filmmaking, and you have to be ready, like, you know, like an athlete. The challenge really is getting to the starting line in good shape, and then running the race is the easy part, sometimes. So often, the challenge in filmmaking is just maintaining your state of readiness. So that when somebody says 'action', you're entirely in that mode, in that part of the story, in that frame of mind, and that you carry the right feelings with you. And it can come at any time and then, you know, again and again and again - but it's mainly the spaces in between. That, that is very challenging; you can get very easily distracted.

People often ask, you know, what humorous things happened on set. For me, very little, because I want to maintain a focus (...) With this part in particular, you know, I prefer to remain... still. Yeah, just to wait. He's [Baelor] a great character because there's a patience to him and a kind of stillness that I find has a depth (...)." - Bertie Carvel