Warning: Spoilers ahead for the last episode of Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones' finale had a lot of moments fans weren't expecting, but chief among them was Bran Stark winning the Iron Throne, a real left-field choice. It was so unexpected that even the actor who plays him, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, literally could not believe what was happening when he received that final script.
He told Entertainment Weekly that he thought he was being pranked. “When I got to the [Dragonpit scene] in the last episode and they’re like, ‘What about Bran?’ I had to get up and pace around the room,” he said. “I genuinely thought it was a joke script and that [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] sent to everyone a script with their own character ends up on the Iron Throne. ‘Yeah, good one guys. Oh sh*t, it’s actually real?’”
Hempstead-Wright is satisfied with the ending, though part of him would have preferred Bran die a cool death in the last episode. “I’m happy,” he told EW. “Though I kind of did want to die and get in one good death scene with an exploding head or something.”
For what it's worth, Hempstead-Wright believes Bran "Three-Eyed Raven" Stark will be a good ruler because of the Three-Eyed Raven's knowing-everything-past-and-future thing.
“I think he’ll be a really good king, actually,” the actor said. “Perhaps there will be something missing in having real emotive leader, which is a useful quality in a king or queen as well. At the same time, you can’t really argue with Bran. He’s like, ‘No, I know everything.’”
