Transcript

00:04 Do you remember the audition for Jon Snow?

00:05 I had a black eye.

00:07 I'd been in a fight the night before.

00:10 I'd got in this fight, with this guy in McDonald's.

00:13 I went into the McDonald's with this girl

00:15 I was sort of dating at the time.

00:17 And it was late at night, and there was no seats.

00:19 I asked this guy, and this girl he was with,

00:23 if we could sit on the same table as them,

00:24 and they said, "Yes."

00:25 We sat down,

00:26 and quite quickly he started being really rude

00:28 to the girl I was with.

00:29 Calling her names, and we were like,

00:30 "We'll just finish our food.

00:31 "We don't want any trouble."

00:32 And then he called her something,

00:34 like an ugly pig or something worse.

00:36 And I got up and said,

00:37 "No, no, no you can't call her that. Get up."

00:40 So I called him up for a fight,

00:41 which I'd never done before.

00:42 And of course he'd been sat down the whole time,

00:44 so he got up and he just kept going.

00:46 [offscreen laughing]

00:47 And I just kind of realized,

00:49 that I had to at that point throw the first punch.

00:51 Otherwise I'd look like a complete wimp.

00:53 And I got battered.

00:54 So then I went to the Jon Snow audition,

00:56 with a black eye.

00:57 Which I think that man who punched me in the face

00:59 may have helped me get the job.

01:00 So, if you're watching, thank you.

01:03 I think there were a couple of weeks

01:04 where I thought I was gonna die.

01:05 There were a couple of weeks, when I thought,

01:07 you know I got the scripts and I read them.

01:09 I thought maybe, you know maybe this is it.

01:11 And then I was told.

01:12 I was one of the first people to be told.

01:14 Then I had to keep this massive secret from everybody.

01:17 Friends, family.

01:19 If there's anything better than being alive in reality

01:20 it's being alive fictionally as well.

01:23 We did thousands upon thousands of takes,

01:26 'cause it's such a key moment I think of me going,

01:28 [gasp] like that.

01:29 They wanted that over and over again,

01:31 and I had to kind of say,

01:32 "I don't know how else to do it now guys."

01:34 Because I was lying down for so many hours,

01:37 for two whole episodes.

01:38 I remember I fell asleep in the middle of a scene.

01:42 And woke up, and you know when you wake up,

01:44 and you don't know quite where you are.

01:46 There's nothing scarier than waking up

01:48 in the middle of Game of Thrones world.

01:49 Naked.

01:50 And everyone standing over you, and you think,

01:52 "Oh my God, I've died

01:53 "And I've actually ended up in Westeros."

01:56 [laughs]

01:57 Of course someone gets brought back from the dead

01:59 and the first question anyone will ask, anyone, is,

02:02 "What did you see? What was there?"

02:04 Tell us, because this is the question

02:06 on every human's mind,

02:07 throughout time.

02:08 We need to know what happens.

02:11 And of course, there was nothing.

02:13 Which is the scariest thing you can hear.

02:15 And it's just another example

02:16 of Thrones' relentless punishment

02:20 to us as an audience.

02:22 You know what, you thought there was a heaven,

02:23 there's no heaven.

02:24 Get over it.

02:25 My birthday's the day after Christmas.

02:27 So it's always the same.

02:29 My whole family just descends on my birthday

02:31 and I get no attention.

02:33 I like attention.

02:34 So, I always end up getting really grumpy

02:36 and selfish on my birthday.

02:39 I think I got a Harry Potter Cluedo set last year.

02:42 [laughs]

02:43 A. I'm not 10 years old and

02:45 B. That is such a token effort mom and dad

02:49 I just don't get enough attention.

02:50 But then I never get enough attention, just generally.

02:52 What am I talking about I don't get enough attention?