Peter Dinklage predicted what would happen to his Game of Thrones character Tyrion Lannister in the forthcoming eighth season.
“This is the first time ever that I didn’t skip to the end,” the actor told Entertainment Weekly. “Why? I was probably terrified. We all feel we’re the leads of our own show."
Dinklage said that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss often change their minds over how events in Westeros will play out.
“I had all these ideas in my head and a version of one of them is how it ends up [for Tyrion]," he continued. "David and Dan have a brilliant version of what I had. If I use any adjectives it will give it away. But I love how it ended up. And how it ends up for everybody. They had a beautiful gentle touch with some and a hard touch with others.”
Dinklage added that the showrunners have decided against a formulaic "bad guys dying and good guys living" and instead found an ending that's "beautiful, painful, and lovely".
"What David and Dan have done with all this is It takes the show somewhere that’s dangerous and contemporary with what’s going on in the world,” he added.
Game of Thrones returns to TV screens 14 April. The show will be available on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV in the UK. Read everything you need to know about the forthcoming season here.
