10 Actors Who Received Death Threats For Insane Reasons
3. Brenock O'Connor
Game of Thrones is definitely a show worth obsessing over, and not one person in the world was okay with the fact that (SPOILER) Jon Snow died at the end of Season 5. Even worse was the fact that the final fatal blow came courtesy of Jon's personal steward Olly. At the time, every one of us probably wanted a violent death for Olly, but then, some people wanted justice to go even further. They wanted the actor who plays Olly, 16 year old Brenock O'Connor, to die as well.
Though this is another check in the column of 'people who don't understand fiction', it's still unsettling that there are people who take TV so seriously as to threaten death to a teenager. In fact, it requires quite a bit of effort to watch Game of Thrones, look up which actor plays Olly, find that actor on social media, and then say you're going to kill him. It just doesn't seem worth all the hassle.
Of course, Brenock being as British as Hugh Bonneville, he simply laughed the whole thing off and said, "It's laughable how people think the show is realistic enough for them to send messages like this to someone who is not the character. I find it quite funny."