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Poor Dontos Hollard. He helped save the world from King Joffrey—well, maybe. He saved Sansa from King's Landing—for some gold from Littlefinger, but still. And he would be fun to get drinks with—for sure. The drunk knight-turned-hero-turned-dead guy embodied the Game of Thrones credo in this week's episode—"No good deed Nothing at all goes unpunished"—after being murdered by Littlefinger upon his safe delivery of Sansa. We caught up with actor Tony Way for a little postmortem chat.

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GQ: You look familiar.

Tony Way: My character is Dontos Hollard. He was a knight from a quite posh family originally, but somewhere along the line it all fell apart for him. The last time he was seen in season two, he turned up to a tournament very drunk and offended King Joffrey, which is not a clever thing to do in Game of Thrones. He was being force-fed to death with gallons of wine when he was saved by Sansa, and made Joffrey's fool. The last time you saw him he was juggling miserably.

Let's talk Royal Wedding: Is Dontos happy to watch Joffrey die?

I think for Dontos, it's more terrifying. If he was given the chance to ruminate on it for a few days after, he'd probably enjoy himself a bit more and sort of relax and think, Oh, that was a good thing. That bastard got it. But you know, because he's in the thick of it, and he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the box mostly because he's pickled with wine and ale, I think the main thing he felt was terrified and a sort of, Oh my god, what have we all done? And then, Escape.

So, how guilty is Dontos in all of this?

You know what? I don't entirely know. A lot of these things are kept quite secret. I've got a theory that he knew what he was doing, if he had been sober and in his right mind he wouldn't have gone anywhere near any of this. I just don't think he really thought about the consequences of it all.

But does he have a hand in the death itself? Or just getting Sansa out of there?

I think he has a bit of both—it will depend on where they go with how Joffrey is killed. There's a few little hints but it's not exactly explicit by the end of episode three exactly how he dies. It's definitely something to do with Littlefinger, whether I was involved with it and Sansa, whether it's got to do with the necklace or not, is left slightly open, which is good. It's good to have secrets.