Game of Thrones‘ Daniel Portman, who plays Tyrion Lannister’s squire Podrick Payne, has spoken about his role and what’s coming up for him in season 2 in a new interview. Beware of spoilers.
In the Access Hollywood interview, Daniel introduces his character:
Pod is from a very, very, sort of lowly branch of House Payne. He is a distant cousin of the executioner Ser Ilyn Payne, and he’s really just sort of been passed about for a wee while… a squire from knight to knight and, I think, in the books, it’s almost seen as a bit of a prank that Tyrion’s been landed with this apparently useless squire.
He also teases that while his role in the show is quite small right now,
Pod’s not exactly what he seems. Yeah, he’s going to play quite an important role towards the end of the series.
He also talks about the aging up on his character. Like most of the other young characters, Podrick will be appearing as older on the show than in the book (where he is 12):
I’m looking at it as if Pod is 16… There are kids that age around that have grown up much quicker than he has and he’s been kind of left behind… The way I was looking at it was to keep the weakness and the awkwardness prevalent I thought it would be nice if he was sort of in between being a teenager and sort of grown up into a young man – and that sort of awkward stage a lot of boys get themselves into and they’re not comfortable in their body. They’re really clumsy, and they think they look terrible all the time.
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Read the full interview at Access Hollywood.
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