Charles video interview about Games of thones season 2

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2nd vid about Got, he appears at 07:14 mn

3rd video with spoilers :

Charles Dance speaks about Tywin

Game Of Thrones’ Charles Dance speaks exclusively to SciFiNow about getting to the heart of Tywin Lannister in Season 2 of HBO’s fantasy epic. Introduced in episode seven of Game Of Thrones Season 1, the powerful Lannister patriarch Tywin stepped in to try and clean up the mess caused by the escalating Stark/Lannister feud. The icy lord of Castery Rock calmly and methodically skinning a deer as he put Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in his place.
“It took me two days to get the smell of that off my hands actually,” laughed actor Charles Dance at the launch party for the Complete First Season DVD/Blu-ray. “I thought they would have given me a haunch of venison to take home, but they didn’t. It was fun.”
As the war heats up and Tywin settles into the role of commander and power behind the Iron Throne in Season 2, we’ll start to get a better idea of what makes this master manipulator tick.
“You see a little of what’s behind the rather austere exterior, actually,” teases Dance, “that’s he’s not quite the bastard that you think he is.”
With memorable genre roles in Alien3, Last Action Hero and Sky’s recent Terry Pratchett adaptations where he plays the equally patrician, er, Patrician under his belt, Charles Dance shrugs off the suggestion that there’s any pressure in embodying this complex figure.
“There’s no pressure at all, not at all, why should there be pressure?” he says playfully. “I walk on a set and pretend to be somebody else, and hopefully I do it convincingly.
“We seem to be battling weather a lot of the time,” the actor continues, “but we’re going to start earlier this year I think, because last year and the year before, we ran into an awful lot of snow, very cold and wet. There aren’t any huge challenges really, it’s just great fun to do.
Game Of Thrones Season 2 begins April 2 on Sky Atlantic HD.
http://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/game-of-thrones-season-2-the-truth-about-tywin-lannister/

But the other one was that fantastic scene where Charles Dance (as Tywin Lannister) guts and flays a stag while he talks with his son. How did Dance react when he found out that was part of the deal?

Benioff: He did not bat an eye.

Weiss: He made it seem as if he had been skinning stags his entire life.

Benioff: I mean we were sitting there watching him do this and it's an incredibly difficult scene not just because it's a long scene and he's got so much dialogue to perform as effortlessly as he does. But continuity-wise, he has to be skinning the same part of the animal at the same moment of the speech each time otherwise we won't be able to cut it together. And he did that and made it look like he had been hunting stags since he was three.

He's just a phenomenal actor and he's one of those people who from the beginning, I think Dan was the first one who said, have you seen, was it Bleak House?

Weiss: Yeah.

Benioff: And said you've gotta check him out, he'd be perfect for Tywin Lannister. And we were both in complete agreement, there was never another choice for that role. He was so completely perfect for it.

And that was a scene - you know it's not a scene in the book but we loved writing it, because first of all, these two actors – you never get to see them together and it felt like a gap that we could fill and have this wonderful scene show a little bit how the son got to be this way and what his relationship with his father was. It let us learn some more about these characters and also introduce this character Tywin Lannister in this really dramatic way.

And across the board with lots of these characters in the books George has the luxury of telling stories about people and telling little pieces of back story and … if we were to do that we would be committing ourselves to all sorts of ungainly flashbacks that work better on page than they do in filmed entertainment so we needed to come up with new ways to introduce these characters in the moment of the story that was actually unfolding before us that served the same function as flashback and back story bits and pieces that George peppers throughout his books.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/the-men-behind-the-thrones-20110714-1helc.html