Game of Thrones‘ Joe Dempsie discusses his role as Gendry, and reveals that the writers might add new material for the character in season 3.
Although Gendry’s character isn’t very prevalent in the third Ice and Fire novel A Storm of Swords, Joe Dempsie tells 1883 Magazine that the writers may pad out the role:
They keep the storylines very closely guarded, so I’ve no idea what’s in store. But the encouraging thing for me is that the producer said to me towards the end of season 2 that although my character isn’t in third book too much, they’re quite open to writing some new storylines for my character, so hopefully I’ll be doing some interesting stuff.
He also predicts that the show will carry on to tell the entire A Song of Ice and Fire story:
Well there are six books but they’re still writing them. So I’d imagine the series shall continue until the books are finished. The thing is with a lot of series, you feel like they go on a bit too long and they meander a bit in the middle where the writers are losing their way. But I think with Game of Thrones, the source material is already there and has been so successful, so I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t carry on. The stories are strong enough.
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