10 Actors Who Suffered The Most After Game Of Thrones
9. Conleth Hill
Conleth Hill is the actor behind Varys, the eunuch Master Of Whispers who served on the Baratheon small council and pledged himself to the Mother Of Dragons. Varys’ death came in season 8, executed by Drogon the dragon, and this end left Hill absolutely inconsolable.
It turns out that season 8 of the show was not just disappointing to fans, but the actors felt underwhlemed by it all as well. However, Hill took his underwhelming death scene very personally. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hill stated “At the time, nothing could console me. I kept thinking: “What did I do wrong?” There wasn’t any pre-warning”.
Hill looks back in his first six seasons as something wonderful, but admits that with the last two seasons something changed about the show, and that change really affected him: “Last season and this season there were great scenes and then I’d come in and kind of give a weather report at the end of them — ‘film at 11.’ So I thought he was losing his knowledge.” Although he, like many other actors who starred alongside him, admits that he isn’t dissatisfied with his time on the show, he says that working on the final seasons was ultimately frustrating, and he's glad to be moving forward from that.