SFX MAGAZINE: Michelle Fairley Interview Game Of Thrones Season Two
by Jordan Farley
March 26 2012
... SFX Magazine: Do you ever have difficulty wrapping your head around the complex storylines, or the wealth of characters in the scripts?
Michelle Fairley: "It is extremely difficult, but that’s what I think is the wonderful thing about it actually. There are these touchstone characters, who are extremely important, and in the second series you have a lot of new characters as well who are vitally important to the thrust of the story. They push the story forward in another direction, but you still have the main characters from the first season. Everybody has a knock on effect on everyone else. It’s one of those series where you do have to watch it. It is extremely complicated, it is extremely layered. It’s exciting because so many of the characters are devious and making out they’re going for one thing when actually underneath they’re scheming for something else.
As an actor you have to play the subtext as well. The thing that Dan and all the other writers, and George has done in the novels, is create real people, but in a different time. The things they’re struggling with are things that people struggle with today, family, moving away, improving your life, proving your worth, doing something to improve the way you think about yourself – the whole self-image thing as well. When you have that dichotomy in a character it’s wonderful to play..."
Game of Thrones season two premieres Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 9/8C on HBO.
