When fired Game of Thrones actor Alexander Siddig suggested HBO was behind episode leaks

Actor Alexander Siddig, who performed Prince Doran Martell on Game of Thrones, didn’t take to kindly to being killed off on the HBO present, going as far as to spout conspiracy theories after his run concluded. Doran Martell was killed within the first episode of season six, however the actor stated that he was initially contracted for 4.

Siddig, who additionally starred in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, advised StarTrek.com in a 2016 interview that contracting him for 4 episodes however killing him after one didn’t make monetary sense to him. “If they were going to kill me off at the end of the last season, why would they contract me for those four episodes? Because it costs them money whether I do them or not, so it’s not great business sense to do it just in case,” he stated.

He stated that creators David Benioff and DB Weiss known as him throughout low season to tell him about his character’s destiny. As a doable rationalization behind his elimination, he hinted at perhaps saying the mistaken factor to the mistaken particular person. “Something happened; I have no idea what,” he stated. “There was an enormous amount of fan excitement when I got named to be on the show, and everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, yes, Doran Martell. He’s going to be great as Doran Martell.’ That might have been the kiss of death. Maybe they didn’t want quite that much attention on that character. Maybe they thought, ‘Well, let’s prove that we’re going to stray from the books. We’re going to do something else, and he will be our first example of that.’ Or maybe I just screwed up. Maybe I said the wrong thing to the wrong person.”

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Siddig took it a step additional, suggesting that it’s ‘all games’ behind-the-scenes, and that the episode leaks that occurred on Game of Thrones may have been a doing of HBO. He stated, “Everybody is paranoid about some leak on Facebook or Instagram or YouTube. So I think the secrecy is kind of understandable, but also there is an element of hype about it that makes it… the more secretive it is, the more special it is. And certainly Game of Thrones plays that. They misinform the crowd and they give them tidbits to send them in wrong directions.”

Siddig added, “So, for example, last season, I believe that the first few episodes were stolen and downloaded online, and everybody got to see them before the show actually aired, and everybody was furious at HBO and whatnot. I don’t know if you remember. I am almost positive that those four episodes were leaked by HBO themselves. So there is an enormous amount of spin going on. I can’t tell you that for sure; that’s just my opinion, but it’s games; everybody’s playing these games.”

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