Yeah, with slightly fewer brain cells than those guys. You’re not only back but you’re part of this team, sort of “Ocean’s 11: Beyond the Wall.” It gives you a certain amount of freedom and security, but it can also make you a little lazy. I think that actually leaving the show for a while gave me the kick up the ass that I needed, because when you have that period of time every year where you know you’ve got solid work yes it’s good. I just thought best to just leave it be, and in truth, of course I was keen to return to the show whenever it was that they decided was an appropriate time, but also I was doing fine without it. I don’t imagine that he’s going to see an email from me and go, ‘Oh my God, we should put him in now, and he should totally win the whole thing.’” You actually sound like my mum! Periodically, she would say I should email them: “You get on with Dan, have you? See what they’re planning and it’d be nice to know wouldn’t it?” I’m like “Mum, if they’ve got plans for me to go back in the show, I will go back in the show.
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So were you sending David and Dan holiday cards just to remind them you were out there?
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We recently chatted with the affable 30-year-old actor- who also had a memorable run on the popular British teen drama “Skins” - about his return to Westeros. Luckily, Gendry is not only alive and well but in the thick of the action in the war against the Army of the Dead with Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and a misfit band of wildlings, knights, the Brotherhood Without Banners and the Hound.