SFX MAGAZINE: Game Of Thrones Season Two: Liam Cunningham Interview
Rob Power
March 27 2012
... Q: You’re in a unique position, having watched the show and now you’re appearing in it – why do you think it resonates with viewers?
Liam Cunningham: "I what it’s got going for it is that the stuff these people get up to in this show is something that you and I would never get up to, thank God, but you can see their reasons, their motivations for doing it. The other thing I like about it is that it challenges an audience. You are watching with great sympathy somebody like Cersei, and you can see it’s about family with her, she wants to protect the family, and the delightful woman that Lena is, so softly spoken in the show. And then two episodes in, she does something absolutely horrific and you kind of go “how could I have been sympathetic to this character? And then within two more episodes you kind of go ‘yeah, actually I get it’. You have empathy, perhaps not sympathy, but you understand the motivations of these people getting up to extraordinarily bad things, and manipulative things, and in a sense it’s power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s a world that you wouldn’t want to be involved in, and I think it kind of reflects a lot of governmental things, and people at the upper echelons of power, what they might be up to, and the fact that the so-called national interest is put above morality and put above right and wrong and all that sort of thing. I mean it’s politics and the human drama, set against this beautiful bizarre backdrop of magic and fantasy, there’s nothing been like it before you know?"
Game of Thrones season two premieres Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 9/8C on HBO.
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