Game of Thrones showrunners only have one thing they'd change about the show – and it involves a minor character you may not even remember
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Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss have revealed the one thing they’d change about the seven-season run of the hit fantasy show – and it’s not what you’d expect.
“One thing I know I wish we could have done is there’s the character Mord the Jailer,” Benioff toldThe Hollywood Reporter, referring to a minor character from season 1. He’s the guard who helps Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) escape after Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) has him imprisoned at the Eyrie. “It was a mistake not bringing Mord the Jailer back into it,” Weiss added. “We always talked about doing it.”
“And we had the scene for it. There’s a scene set in a tavern…” Benioff continued. “Was it Brienne or The Hound?” Weiss said. “But we realized too late that Mord could have owned the tavern. We could have had that actor in the background acting exactly the way he did as a jailer, except now as a small business owner. It was just such an obvious, no-brainer, day-after idea.”
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