10 Actors Who Suffered The Most After Game Of Thrones

10. Jack Gleeson

Jack Gleeson was the face of Game Of Thrones as the sociopathic and psychotic Joffrey Baratheon, 18th king of the Iron Throne. Though beloved by many for his cruel and arrogant performance throughout the show, he has since famously admitted that he didn’t enjoy his time on the show at all. After Joffrey met his end in season 4, Gleeson announced that he was retiring from acting entirely as he didn’t enjoy the lifestyle nor the celebrity status that came with the role.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gleeson stated: “I’ve been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.” Although Gleeson didn’t give a specific reason of why he wanted to quite acting after Game Of Thrones, part of this may be down to his thoughts on the show and the misogyny featured in it. In a separate interview with The Daily Beast, Gleeson stated: “I think it’s always how you represent that kind of treatment: Are you in some way making it cool, or are you making it into an entertainment product, and is that wrong?"

To this date, he claims that he never watched the show after he was finished with it, but he still catches clips from time to time to see how its doing. Nonetheless, Gleeson quite acting for a while afterwards to focus on himself.