WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from season 8 of Game of Thrones.
It turns out thatGame of ThronesstarAlfie Allenis not easily pranked!
The actor, who portrayed Theon Greyjoy on the HBO drama for all eight seasons, admitted toJames Cordenduring a visit to theLate Late Showthis week that creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff tried to prank him with a fake script way back in season 2.
“At the end of the season, there’s a — well, the script was given to me, and basically, I kind of give this rousing speech, if I may say so myself,” Allen, 32, explained to Corden, 40, and fellow guests David Oyelowo andRuPaul Charles.
“So at the end of this speech, Bran [Isaac Hempstead-Wright] sort of pops out from somewhere and stabs me in the chest and says, ‘This is my Winterfell, not yours,'” he continued. Fans of the show will remember that Theon pretended to kill Bran and Rickon (Art Parkinson) in order to gain power over the Stark’s castle, Winterfell.
While the pranksters were expecting Allen to be upset that his character was “killed,” the actor told Corden, 40, he had a different reaction: “And so I kind of just took it on the chin and got on with it, you know,” he said.
Eventually, the other actors realized that Weiss and Benioff’s attempt to prank Allen wasn’t really panning out.
“I think about three weeks past where I had kind of finished my shooting for that season, and people in the cast were kind of telling David and Dan — because they had given me this fake script with this kind of fake ending — that maybe you should tell him that it’s fake,” Allen said.
Corden wanted to be sure he heard the story correctly and recapped: “So they wrote a script, telling you that your character would die as a prank, and because you went, ‘Aw, okay,’ it sort of backfired.”
“I guess so, yeah, a little bit,” Allen said. “So yeah, people decided to tell them that maybe you should call him, ’cause he might be tearing his hair out, but I wasn’t, I was sunbathing.”
Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy.HBO
Allen also revealed to Corden that the creators attempted to pull off a similar prank on his costarKit Harington, who played the heroic Jon Snow.
“There was a White Walker that kind of burned all his hair off, so he was going to have to wear a bald cap for the rest of the series,” Allen said of that joke.
Allen’s work inGame of Thrones’final season has paid off in an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor, which he saidsurprised him.
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“I was on out and about just doing stuff. I got a congratulations text and I just thought it was a group nomination, and I didn’t realize it was an individual one, which is crazy,” Allen previously told PEOPLE. “I’m just ecstatic really, I can’t believe this. It really surprised me, I was not expecting itat all. I’m still in shock, still happily in shock. It’s amazing.”
In total,Game of Thronesearned arecord-breaking 32 nominationsthis year.
source: people.com
