With the third season of HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of Thrones set to premiere in less than two weeks, we are looking to the cast and crew to tell us what we can expect. We had the opportunity to speak with creator George R.R. Martin recently about a potential spin-off/Game of Thrones prequel series for television , and Lena Headey, Cersei Lannister herself , about what we can expect to see from Joffrey the Cruel aka The Tool King (unofficial names) and from her ruthless clan in the upcoming season.

Game of Thrones is a series filled the dynamic and richly drawn characters. One stand-out is Tyrion Lannister’s mercenary sellsword bodyguard Bronn, played by Jerome Flynn. We had the opportunity to sit down with Flynn, who also stars in BBC America’s Ripper Street, to talk about Bronn’s relationship with Tyrion heading into Season 3, working with Peter Dinklage and the possibility of the television series living on past the books. Oh, and we also address the question of who would win in a fight Bronn or the Hound.When Flynn told us that he found it more disturbing to play Ripper Street’s rough Detective Sgt. Bennet Drake than Game of Thrones' ruthless Bronn , we were somewhat taken aback.Well maybe I tap into Bennett Drake’s own experience; because he is to be used in the police department as brawn (funnily enough), but he's not totally comfortable with it. For Bronn on the other hand, it would be much more like water off a ducks back to him. He will kill when he has to kill, but having said that, and I may be proved wrong…Tyrion says, 'Would you kill a baby if I asked you?' and Bronn says, 'I'd ask how much.' I don't know if that's true. I think he's very good at telling Tyrion what he wants to hear, and showing Tyrion what he wants to see. He's a clever man, Bronn, actually. And so he's also playing a parody, or some kind of character. He's very ambitious.

: As in the 3rd book, they're still together. Bronn's getting itchy, he's getting frustrated and he’s not being paid enough. So it's being set up for a parting of the ways, which is sad, actually. I have to say it makes me very sad because I love working with Peter (Dinklage). It's just such a joy and to have those two characters to play. Peter is a wonderful actor, and he's got a very sophisticated and entertaining kind of nature to his character and his humor. He's a funny man; he's a really funny man. It's a dream to play the role.Yeah, it's like a little cameo, Bronn, in many ways. I'm not sure, he may be in five or six episodes, but it's maintained. Which is really nice that they've kept me in. I think he's going to take his chances and that there are more opportunities to come. What I'm interested in, and hoping for because it feels like it could happen, is that the two of them come back together. All sorts of things happen to Tyrion. He goes off, and I like to think that they're going to team up again.Well I don't know if George (R.R. Martin) has said 'this is where we're going,' but they're going to carry on writing the TV series. So if George doesn't get the book out, I think they're going to start doing it themselves. So then there's more freedom. I mean I'm guessing on that, but I think that's the deal, and George knows that.

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It's tight, especially now. There's a two month crossover. By a stroke of luck, both are being filmed in Ireland. Most of Bronn's stuff is there, maybe a day or two in Croatia, but most of it is in Belfast. It's a two and a half hour drive, so, I'm hoping that neither part gets compromised. The big payoff is in Croatia, at King's Landing. Oh, Dubrovnik is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I had a few weeks out there. Otherwise it's Belfast, Titanic Studios, which is where the Titanic was built.I've seen a bit of ADR stuff, but that's it. It's pretty epic, pretty epic.Well I think Bronn thinks that he would have won. I saw that Hound fight, and he's pretty mean. Bronn has to think that he would have won, but I think he was pretty nervous on the day when the Hound wasn't backing down. I think he was nervous, so anything could happen.I haven't read the complete books. I've kind of read synopsis. It [the show] was so rich anyway that I didn't want to get disappointed and wrapped up in the books. I just kind of wanted to keep thinking of what was coming. And I don't really read a lot of science fictions. Well, this is not sci-fi, but it's not my thing. As an actor it's my thing. It's amazing to be part of it. It's one of the dream jobs. So many actors are like, 'Oh my God, what's it like to be on Thrones?' I didn't realize how many were queuing up and trying to get a part on it. So among actors it's got a kind of cultish status. It's nice because HBO has also poured a lot of money into the production and so with the scenes you have time. You really have time. You have whole day to shoot a scene. On Ripper Street, you might do seven or eight in a day. It's very different, and there are good things about both of those.Yeah, and instinctive. You could be my acting coach.[Laughing] Yep, that's my take on them. Drake is not as calculated and manipulative and clever as Bronn. Yet he's complicated, and striving. He's striving like Bronn to shake off the shackles of his birth and the class he was born into. I think Bronn has a conviction about how he's going to do that, and he doesn't have the same moral compass as Bennett Drake. So.

Game of Thrones Season 3 is set to premiere on HBO on March 31, 2013. Strap in.Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN