When Glover first started playing Pycelle back in Season 1, he found the character too one-dimensional to be interesting. How they hold him down for the show, I don’t know. After that, he wriggles, wriggles, wriggles for the rest of the series. That scene where he’s accused of killing Joffrey, when he pours that wine, it’s just, “How the fuck am I going to get out of this one? I know what’s going to happen. So many considerations cross his face when he’s into a problem.

He’s one of those actors where so much happens in his face. He’s one of the most brilliant actors in America. I wanted Peter Dinklage to play my fool in Lear, and he said, ‘I would love to.’ But it never happened. Īt the outset of the interview, Glover gushes over working with Peter Dinklage: Glover says the two stories are similar: “the same thing, the history of kings fighting for power.” Still going strong at the age of 81, Glover talked to Vulture about his affinity for Shakespeare, the skills of Peter Dinklage, the devious nature of Maester Pycelle, and why he avoided doing a nude scene on Game of Thrones. He’s currently playing the Duke of Lancaster in Shakespeare’s Richard II, a play set during the War of the Roses, a time of violence and political intrigue that inspired George R. Outside of Game of Thrones, you may best recognize Julian Glover (Grand Maester Pycelle), from his roles in films like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, and For Your Eyes Only, but Glover has also had a long and glorious career on the stage.

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