15 WORST Performances In Game Of Thrones

3. Eugene Simon - Lancel Lannister

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The Lannisters were the best performed family on Game of Thrones, but you can't win 'em all.

Lancel wasn't a particularly good or well-written character anyway, but he's dragged even further down by Eugene Simon's disinterested, relentlessly wooden performance.

Whether he was working for Cersei or working as one of the Sparrows, Lancel was always a total bore and Simon mostly played the character with one bored expression and one flat tone of voice throughout.

He wasn't a prominent character so it could've been worse, but this bad performance was still distracting, especially as he was usually sharing the screen with great actors like Lena Heady or Johnathan Pryce. Surely there was someone better that could've been chosen for this role?

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