Game of Thrones star Alfie Allen has revealed how the creators of HBO’s epic fantasy drama once pranked him with a fake script that prematurely killed off his character, Theon Greyjoy.
But the joke ultimately ended up being on show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, because Allen simply took the spoof development in stride.
“I kind of just took it on the chin and got on with it,” Alfie explained on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Alfie recalled how fellow cast members told Benioff and Weiss, some three weeks after he’d received the bogus script, that they should probably call him “because he might be tearing his hair out.”
“But I wasn’t, I was sunbathing,” said Allfie, who also revealed how the pair played a similar stunt on Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow.
Check out the full interview below...
Alfie’s revelation comes after director Miguel Sapochnik told of how there was originally a very different plan for how Arya Stark would end up killing The Night King in The Long Night.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Miguel said: “At one point there was an elaborate plan to have her fight her way into the Weirwood forest, but as we progressed we realised she’d already done that earlier in the episode, so it felt like a repeat.
“In the end we felt it didn’t matter how she got there – what mattered was setting up that moment when the Night King catches her mid-leap and we think she’s done for, then she pulls her knife switch and takes him out.”
He continued: “I questioned everything and we worked long and hard to find the right balance of credibility versus wish fulfilment. Then we shot it and reshot it and found that what was really important was rhythm.”
