5. Paul Kaye As Thoros Of Myr
Introduced early in season 3, Thoros of Myr at first seems like he is going to represent one archetype the rugged ranger/bowman type before getting turned in exactly the opposite direction a couple episodes later. He is a member of the Brotherhood without Banners, but also a priest of the Red God who has discovered that he has the ability to resurrect Beric Dondarrion from the dead through the Red God's power. It is hard to sell a priest as a bowman as well, and Paul Kaye resists the temptation to make Thoros a holy man. Instead, he comes off as a disillusioned, alcoholic friar the type of character you'd see in a revisionist Robin Hood. A lot of this is in the writing, but Kaye manages to make it seem easy to be both a holy man and a knight at the same time without coming off as a stoic templar cliche. Why is this Performance Overlooked? Paul Kaye has the misfortune of being upstaged by multiple main cast members, and action sequences on top of that toward the end of his guest stint in season 3. Maisie Williams and Rory McCann both get much more dialogue and action than Kaye, but he makes quite an impression in the scenes he shares with Richard Dormer and his companions in the Brotherhood.
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