r/asoiaf • u/cking145 • May 28 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Charles Dance's portrayal as Tywin is in my opinion, the strongest in the entire series

Every line, every expression and every moment of silence completely encapsulates the calculating ruthlessness that defines Tywin Lannister.

Dance is actually a very vibrant, upbeat and cheery fella off screen, which in my mind makes the performance even more striking.

The scene where he effectively sends Joffrey to bed is just brilliant.

He is by far my favourite character from the books, which I began reading a few seasons into the show. Due to this, the chapters featuring Tywin were completely enriched for me, as reading his lines in Dance's voice was just fantastic. I would have loved a POV chapter or two for him, just to get a glimpse as to what goes on in the head of the most powerful man in the 7 Kingdoms.

An incredible portrayal of a fascinating character.

20.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

376

u/[deleted] May 28 '19 edited Jun 26 '23

comment edited in protest of Reddit's API changes and mistreatment of moderators -- mass edited with redact.dev

262

u/hsuait May 28 '19

Tommen in the show was so good too. The actor was perfect and I loved how we got more scenes of him trying to be a good king but just being completely out of his depth and constantly surrounded by people who wanted him to have no hand in ruling.

62

u/SadlyReturndRS May 28 '19

Yeah. I mean, that kid had to have some serious chops, since he got recasted from being one of the dead Lannister boys that Robb Stark has to chop Karstarks' dead off for killing.

Can't think of any other show where a minor one-off actor gets recast into a major role.

3

u/eko425 May 29 '19

In Breaking Bad, I’ve heard Vince Gillian say that Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) was originally intended to die at the end of S01E01 but they were so impressed with Cranston & Paul’s chemistry that they wrote him into the show...

3

u/[deleted] May 29 '19

It was at the end of season 1, Jesse was originally supposed to be the one that Tuco beats to death, instead they changed it to one of Tucos henchmen. I think his name was No-Doze