Peter Dinklage just said ‘no shame’ in people still associating him with Game of Thrones

I don’t know why, but we just can’t stop hanging on every word the Game of Thrones cast ever say about their time on the show. I just love it. Perhaps it’s because that show means so much to so many of us, and we’re still all fuming about the ending. I guess a renewed love in the wake of House of the Dragon keeps the show on everyone’s lips – and the fact no matter when the cast get interviewed for whatever project they’re up to we need some fresh reflective verdicts. Peter Dinklage just spoke about how there’s ‘no shame’ regarding his eternal Game of Thrones association and said despite all odds he actually liked that horrible ending… Right.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone to promote his new western The Thicket, Peter Dinklage explained how he feels about Game of Thrones still following him round all these years later. “It would be very difficult if I wasn’t proud of that show, but I happen to be insanely proud of that show,” he explains. “I love that character. And I’m still good friends with and I love the creators, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss]. It was about ten years of our lives from the first time they told me about it to when we wrapped the final season. I raised two kids part time over in Ireland. There’s no shame in that. There’s only pride. And it was eight seasons. So that’s 80 hours of me! Everybody globally, everybody got 80 hours of Dinklage … It’s bound to follow me around.”

Not content with that, the journalist then asked Peter Dinklage how he really felt about the infamously despised final season of Game of Thrones – in particular, the horrible ending episode.

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“Again, just my opinion. I like the finale! You don’t have to agree with me. How about if I said like, “Yeah, I agree. I hated the finale. The whole last season was horrible”?  I mean, that would sit much worse than if I said I loved it, which I did. I can’t speak for anybody else’s opinion, and that’s what makes what we do fun, because everybody does have a difference of opinion and everybody gets to write about it and chat about it and drink over it and argue about it. It’s great. I mean, I think it means you’re doing something right. It’s like an old Irish way of looking at the world. There’s something wrong if everything’s OK.”

I can’t say I agree there, pal – but it’s so cute he has such great memories. What a show – when it was at its best, at least.

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