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Charles game of thrones1/25/2024 ![]() ![]() He didn’t get the life lessons he should have had. And I blame Cersei for that, because she always shielded him, but she was really shielding him from politics, and the world, and how cruel people really are. And when the High Sparrow finally came into it, he had his own plans, too. In a way, he was also powerless because Cersei, Margaery, they all had their own game plan to use him to soak up as much power as they could. Tommen was a sort of pacifist king, which made him powerless … And when he sees the Sept explode, he knows. The Mountain is with Cersei 24–7, and the Mountain was standing in his way. And when the Mountain comes, he knows that his mom was up to something. That’s one of the reasons he’s late to the trial. ![]() I’d like to think that before the day of the trial, he was starting to think about what his mother was up to. What did you think was going through his head, what he was processing? Do you think he knew when the Sept exploded that Cersei was behind it? Did he intuit that?ĭefinitely. I probably would have been crying my eyes out if it was. At that point, I think I had another two months of shooting, so it wasn’t my last day. I didn’t really want to face Tommen’s death, to get into that state of what Tommen was processing. ![]() Previous to shooting it, I’d known about it for four months, and to be honest, I was dreading it. So instead of walking away and confronting his mom, let it get to him, so he would commit suicide. But filming that day, it was sad. It’s more of him not believing what he’s seeing at first. We did try Tommen’s reaction loads of different ways, but the one note I got on the day was, instead of Tommen curling up into a ball and crying his eyes out, or screaming with rage, or crawling onto the bed and covering his face with a pillow, let it be shell shock. I’d say, Jesus, falling onto the mat? It’s got to be 30 times, or more, for all the different angles. And the whole death scene, that was a long, long time. The whole sequence, where he’s getting dressed, sitting on his seat, and the Mountain comes in, that was all one day. ![]() I walk to the top of the window, fall off on a crash mat, and I basically face-planted. What was it like shooting it - Tommen’s reaction, the actual jump through the window? In a way, Tommen died the way he was - it was a peaceful death. I sort of knew he wouldn’t be the last one on the throne, but Tommen doesn’t really deserve to have his throat slit or his stomach jabbed. When I first signed on to play Tommen, I started speculating about when he was going to die. And then I told my mom, and she was like, “Aww, man!” I answered the phone, “Hey, how are you doing? You’re going to kill me, aren’t you?” “Um, yeah.” But they said it really, really nicely, and I thanked them, because they had given me two roles, Tommen and Martyn Lannister. As soon as I saw it was them, I knew it was over. I first found out when we got flown out to Belfast for a table read with the cast, and the night before, I got a call from David and Dan. How did you first find out Tommen was going to die? Actor Dean-Charles Chapman chatted with Vulture about Tommen’s suicide, face-planting on a crash mat, and the fate of Ser Pounce. Sure, she kept him away from the Sept of Baelor (via the Mountain), but she didn’t anticipate his reaction to watching the explosion, or what it might mean to him, or how being alone in his room while she went off to torture Septa Unella might put him at risk. Did this make her more protective of Tommen? Yes, but not in the ways that mattered. Spoilers ahead for the season-six finale of Game of Thrones.Īfter the deaths of Joffrey and Myrcella, Cersei finally started to believe the prophecy given to her as a teenager - that she would have three children, and each of them would die. ![]()
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