David Benioff and D.B. Weiss did a present filled with dying. But one particularly resonated.
Appearing on a brand new episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the showrunners had been requested to call their favourite character dying.
“With Thrones, there was so much killing of good guys,” Weiss stated, “and we finally got to really kill both Joffrey in season 4 and Ramsay Bolton in season 6. It was fun to go back to the old-fashioned joys of just killing off a really bad guy.”
Bolton, performed by Iwan Rheon, was probably the most evil characters within the collection. Thus, his dying by being devoured by hounds “felt like it was balancing the scales a little,” Weiss stated.
Benioff agreed about Bolton’s dying. “You don’t really see the death. You see some of it in the background, but you don’t really see the death,” he stated. “What you do see is Sophie [Turner]’s smile. It was all in one shot, and we did it seven times or something… She nailed it on the seventh or eighth time, and it was just that feeling of — that’s so epic. Sophie was so good. When she got that shot, I felt like I can now die happy.”