CD: I have to admit that I haven’t read any of the books and I don’t refer to them. Apart from anything else they’re very thick [in size] and they frighten me. A terrifying prospect. Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that’s what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It’s probably been left out for a good reason.