Warning: If you aren't caught up with Season 3 of Game of Thrones please read no further, some spoilers follow...
Earlier today we had the pleasure of sitting down for a talk with the lovely David Bradley who many will recognize from his roles as Mr. Filch in the Harry Potter franchise and, more recently, as the (now notorious) man who out-Joffrey's Joffrey, Walder Frey, on the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
Bradley also plays the first Doctor himself, William Hartnell, in An Adventure in Space and Time, the upcoming BBC film about the birth of the long-running, and beloved, British science-fiction series Doctor Who.
During the course of our conversation we touched on the resurgence that Bradley is currently enjoying in his career (with some very notable roles in several highly visible properties) his adventures at Comic-Con, and whether we may be seeing a return of Walder Frey in the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones.
During the Comic-Con Doctor Who panel, Bradley had quipped that, "Wedding invitations seemed to dry up" following Game of Thrones' shocking "Red Wedding" episode, The Rains of Castamere. He followed-up with us by joking that he'd "seen the Starks at Comic-Con and all seemed to be forgiven."
The actor said the truth was that people had been incredibly generous and complimentary with him during his time at the Con, which made him realize just how impactful and well-received the work he'd done in recent years truly is in the United States.
"For me it was amazing because four big things are coming out all at once: Game of Thrones, Broadchurch, the Doctor Who movie and the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost/Edgar Wright movie The World's End. Happily they're all good, because for any actor of a certain age you've had your share of what you call Turkeys over here. So it's a real pleasure when you've got something good on your hands."
Bradley has something grand - if reviled - in Game of Thrones' Walder Frey. The character has particular appearances/is referenced in certain ways in the books, but the manner in which the show is constructed makes it difficult to know when and how certain players will appear or reappear. When asked if his busy schedule would include a return to the GOT set as the most infamous and loathed villain since King Joffrey, Bradley said, "I would like to think so, because I love playing the character and apparently he does come back in the books. When I met (executive producers) D.B. Weiss and David Benioff at Comic-Con the other day they were very positive about it and I would love to do it again."
All shall be revealed when Game of Thrones returns for Season 4 next year.
Stay tuned for more from Bradley on An Adventure in Space and Time; which is set to premiere in November of 2013 on BBC and BBC America.
Source : ign[dot]com
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