Game of Thrones actor Michael Condron has started to work as an Asda delivery driver during the coronavirus pandemic, saying “every single person has a role to play in these times”.
Condron – who played Bowen Marsh, First Steward of the Night’s Watch, in the HBO fantasy epic – has also appeared in the TV shows The Tudors and Soft Border Patrol.
“People now should really appreciate the hard work that everybody does – I think people who work in supermarkets have often been taken for granted,” he told Belfast Live.
“A friend of mine said Asda were looking for people to work there so I got in touch. I came down, got a job and I absolutely love it. The job means I can continue to have that interaction with people like I get in a theatre. It’s kept me mentally in a good place and it continues to do so.”
Condron added he had been doing as many as 18 calls a day, and some customers had recognised him from Game of Thrones, apparently asking him: “Aren’t you that guy off the telly?”
He said he is considering keeping the job on a part-time basis after lockdown ends. “It’s definitely something I would be keen on doing,” he said.
“It’s really good for me. It’s very physical work and it’s keeping me really fit too.”
Condron once played a delivery man in the 2015 film High-Rise, which also starred Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller.
