WARNING! Article contains SPOILERS from Game of Thrones Season 6 finale!
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In the Game of Thrones season 6 finale, “The Winds of Winter,” Loras Tyrell and his sister Margaery were among the many people that were incinerated inside of the Sept. For Finn Jones, the actor who portrays Ser Loras, he wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the character when he received the dreaded phone call from showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss, but he began realize something was afoot when the script for the season finale hadn’t been given to him a day before he was to film it.
“And I was like, ‘Why didn’t I get episode 10 yet? That’s really weird,” Jones told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s 5 p.m. and we’re doing it tomorrow. Why haven’t I received it?’ And just as I was saying that I get a call from [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss]. And as I’m picking up, I’m staying positive, thinking, ‘Maybe they’re checking in to say ‘Hi.’ And they were just like [a long pause of dead silence….]. And I was like “Ahhhh, God no! I was so close to season 7!’”
Jones wanted to be there until the bitter end, but overall, he thinks Loras’s death was perfectlly timed. “Better to blaze out, quite literally, than fade out in seasons to come,” he said, though he admitted to being terrified once it sunk in that he was unemployed.
Luckily for him, it didn’t take him long to land another job. “I just finished filming and I went to an airport and I was sitting in a lounge and I was decompressing and taking it all in, thinking, ‘Here we go, new stage of my life,’” he shared. “And I got an email for the audition for Iron Fist. And I’m like, ‘Oh, new audition.’ And I didn’t think that much about it at the time. But it’s just fun how things click into place. It was a good couple months after that before I secured that role. There was something in the air guiding me along.”
And what does Jones think of his starring role in Marvel’s Iron Fist?
“I love the character. What really drew me was the character and the story. I really enjoy how he’s a superhero with a real heart but has spiritual elements as well. I think it’s going to be an exciting character to play because there’s this contraction of on one hand he’s from a very wealthy family, he’s a billionaire, on the other hand he’s been in this world of K’un-Lun for a long time where he’s learned kung fu and buddhist philosophy. There’s a contradiction in those elements that’s going to be really fun to play.”
Deepest condolences to the Tyrells. I know what it’s like to lose someone you love.
— Iron Fist (@MarvelIronFist) June 27, 2016
In Marvel’s Iron Fist, Danny Rand returns to New York City after being missing for years, trying to reconnect with his past and his family legacy. He fights against the criminal element corrupting his world around him with his incredible kung-fu mastery and ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist.
The cast also features Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, David Wenham as Harold Meachum, Jessica Stroup as Joy Meachum, and Tom Pelphrey as Ward Meachum, as well as a guest appearance from Carrie-Anne Moss’s Jeri Hogarth.
Marvel’s Iron Fist is expected to premiere on Netflix in 2017
