Actor Gethin Anthony, who plays Renly Baratheon on Game of Thrones and Sutu on the Doctor Who spinoff, Minister of Chance, talks about the two projects in a new, lengthy interview.
Talking about the relationship between Renly and Loras on Game of Thrones, Gethin discusses the difference between the books and HBO series:
Because the book is told from the point of view of particular characters, there are a lot of relationships that you don’t see, because they are behind closed doors. But in a television series they don’t have those constraints – they tell the story in a different way. And what you get from that is a lot more of those ‘behind closed doors’ moments with the characters – it gives you is all the relationships that make decisions happen. Loras Tyrell has a really close relationship with Renly, and that is powerful because they are affectionate together, and they have private moments together. And you can see that in the television series. In the books you only get the public view of Renly, and that is interesting, to see the interactions of some of the other characters as well.
On Ministry of Chance, which movies away from period drama and into the sci-fi genre, Gethin talks about watching Doctor Who as a young boy and getting to work with “his” Doctor, Sylvester McCoy:
I grew up on Sylvester McCoy when I was really young. I had that kind of touchstone. I was really interested to see the series come back with Christopher Eccleston, and David Tennant, and now Matt Smith’s incarnation. So I’ve been aware of it, more as a kid and less so now, but very interested in the stories they manage to create. When Minister of Chance came up it was really interesting because I didn’t know much about how it all sort of came out of Doctor Who, but it was fascinating to see what they were going to do.
Read the full interview, in which Gethin goes into a lot of depth about his work on both shows, here at Shadow Locked.
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