Game Of Thrones' Bran Stark Actor Defends Show’s Ending, But Admits He Thought It Was 'A Joke'

Don’t read this unless you’ve seen the last ever episode of Game Of Thrones, OK?

Isaac Hempstead Wright – aka Bran Stark, First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Six Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm – has shared his thoughts on the Game Of Thrones finale.

And while he has (naturally) defended the decision to have Bran named King, the actor has admitted that he thought the plot twist was a giant prank.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he explained: “I genuinely thought it was a joke script and that showrunners [David Benioff and D.B. Weiss] sent to everyone a script with their own character ends up on the Iron Throne.”

Isaac added that he thought, “Oh yeah, good one guys” before saying: “Oh shit, it’s actually real?”

Addressing the reaction to the ending, Isaac continued: “It’s so difficult to finish a series as popular as this without pissing some people off.

“There’s going to be a lot of broken hearts. It’s bittersweet.”

In a separate interview with The Wrap, he hit back at people “getting so worked up about the fact that Bran doesn’t do anything”.

“I mean, he’s disabled, what’s he gonna do? Is he gonna jump up and run around, get a sword and suddenly do acrobatics?” Isaac asked. “And his powers as the Three-Eyed Raven basically don’t really allow him to interfere with things that much. I think that’s the very point of a Three-Eyed Raven.

“The reason there is a Three-Eyed Raven who is so weird and so calm is because their job is to observe, it’s not to start interfering with things, and that’s made pretty clear by the previous Three-Eyed Raven who goes, ‘You can’t mess with the past.’

“Cause you see what happens when you do, there’s the whole Hodor scene.”

The Game Of Thrones finale saw Bran win the Iron Throne (which was actually melted by Drogon, so there was no technically throne left) after Daenerys Targaryen was killed by her former lover Jon Snow.

Jon ended the episode by being banished to the Night’s Watch – what they’re watching now is not entirely clear – and Sansa became Queen Of The North, after calling for it to be independent again.

The fourth remaining Stark sibling, Arya, turned her back on Westeros to sail further west in uncharted waters.

In the wake of the finale airing, Daenerys actress Emilia Clarke has revealed one thing she would change the final instalment.