Gethin Anthony has reactivated his Twitter account with the same url, for anyone interested in following. And he tweeted this pic at Finn Jones an hour or so ago. He’ll be appearing at Wales ComicCon next Sunday, along with Finn Jones, Gemma Whelan, Julian Glover, James Cosmo, and Jerome Flynn.
My name is Gethin Anthony, I play Renly Baratheon, Lord of Storm’s End and Minister of Laws. He sits on the small council at King Robert Barahteon’s holdfast which is King’s Landing - which is the capsule of Westeros as it is, it’s the Seven Kingdoms which have been united.
He’s grown up sort of the younger brother of a rebellious usurper king, but for him it’s their family’s right to be there, and he’s sort of grown up in the court in and around King’s Landing, and he enjoys himself quite a lot, you know. He’s sort of close enough to the seat of power that he can kind of enjoy himself. He’s got a really big secret. And he sort of tries to make the best of the world that’s around him, I think.
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Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) I think possibly I would go with somebody like Nietzsche. Somebody who was really a philosopher, a good advisor, a guider… But I would probably fight with him nonstop.
Robb Stark (Richard Madden) - My dad is pretty smart. I think he’d have my back. Yeah, keep it in the family. I’d put my dad there and keep an eye on what he’s doing.
Jon Snow (Kit Harington) - I’d have my brother Jack probably. He probably would try to steal the throne from me actually, but I think if anyone’s going to try to steal it off of me, I’d want it to be him. And he’s an inherently a good person so I think he’d rule the kingdoms quite well.
Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) - I would have to pick my mom because she gives me good advice all the time, as I’m growing up. I think she’s been a brilliant Hand of the Queen.
Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) - I’d want someone funny, someone a bit like Bronn, a comedian maybe. I really like Lee Evans actually. He’s kind of my same humor and does a lot of impressions that are funny, so yeah, probably Lee Evans.
Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) - If I were on the Iron Throne and I had to choose a Hand, I would want Tyrion. He seems to have every angle covered. But assuming I can’t have a Westerosi character, I would choose Sigmund Freud. He could get to work on Joffrey and Cersei’s complex relationship, and I would get Joffrey an electric guitar and lessons from Metallica as he needs to channel his blistering fury into something less psychopathic.
Jaime Lannister (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) - If I were on the Iron Throne, I’d call my sister and say, “You want to be queen?”
Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony) - I’d like to first point out that I’ve never sat on the Iron Throne set or otherwise. But if I were to sit on it, I would choose my best mate Don, who when I was at school, we were in prefects together. And he was a wonderful, wonderful right-hand man. I think he’d be brilliant at it.
Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) - It would be Aidan Gillen as Littlefinger, definitely. You know not to trust him, but he’d be a brilliant operator for you.
Ygritte (Rose Leslie) - The novelist Georgette Heyer wrote my favorite book, These Old Shades. In the book, there’s a character called the Duke of Avon. He’s a seriously cool character, very slick. I think I’d have to go for him. I love him. I love reading that book over and over.
Gendry (Joe Dempsie) - I would pick legendary soccer manager Brian Clough who managed a football team that I support in the late ’70s and ’80s. He was quite a character and took no prisoners. One of his most famous quotes was when someone asked him if he as the best manager in the country. He said, “I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the country, but I’m in the Top 1.” Michael Sheen played him in a film years ago called The Damned United.
Lancel Lannister (Eugene Simon) - If I could choose somebody to be my Hand to the King it would probably be, if he were alive, Peter Sellers. There you go. Peter Sellers, before he did Dr. Strangelove and went insane.
Irri (Amrita Acharia) - I was thinking of a superhero. Let’s have Wonder Woman. She’d be by my side, she’d be my mentor, why not?
Note: I have no idea why TV Guide paired Wonder Woman with a pic of Peter Dinklage. It should be with this gorgeous woman:
“Look at me!” he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm’s End. “Look at me, I’m a dragon,” or “Look at me, I’m a wizard,” or “Look at me, look at me, I’m the rain god.”
The bold little boy with wild black hair and laughing eyes was a man grown now, one-and-twenty, and still he played his games. Look at me, I’m a king, Cressen thought sadly. Oh, Renly, Renly, dear sweet child, do you know what you are doing?
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↪ Renly Baratheon [Game of Thrones]
Part of the problem with reading the books ahead of time is trying not to get too invested in an actor you know is slated for the proverbial chopping block. This was especially hard for many fans who loved Renly Baratheon… and three times harder knowing he was played by Gethin Anthony—by reputation one of the nicest, even-keel and giving actors in the world today…
In Which The GoT Cast Writes Slash Via Texts
Kit Harington said that on the Iceland set, when they’re at the bar, they fight about theories. Same in Belfast?
Richard Madden: Completely. Sometimes I text with Kit or Gethin [Anthony, who plays Renly], and we laugh at about how geeky we are. I’ve been having a lot of Robb Stark-Renly jokes recently, about Renly crushing on Robb Stark. That always gets a good laugh.There is already fan fiction about the Robb Stark–Renly Baratheon pairing.
Richard Madden: [Laughs hysterically.] I have not read any of it yet. But we’re sending texts verging on that.[x]
“The youngest of the three Baratheon brothers, Renly believes he will be a better king than his brother Stannis or his nephew Joffrey. With the backing of his close companion Ser Loras Tyrell, he aims to prove it.” -HBO Character Page
Gethin: Do you know, we’ve had some amazing reactions – specifically me and Finn Jones – who plays Loras Tyrell. We’ve had some lovely things. A lovely young woman sent us T-shirts with our sort of faces printed in rainbow colors for each [of us]. She sent one to Finn of my face and one to me of Finn’s face that look like the Obama — you know that famous, like iconic thing? It was like that kind of profile, but in rainbow colors, rather than those sort of like muted reds and blues. So, [we] get little gifts like that and then I think Finn got a message from someone saying that he proposed to his boyfriend and they were gonna get married based on seeing the sort of gay story line in the show. Things like that you kind of go, ‘That’s kind of cool.’ We’ve had some amazing reactions like that and really fun, positive stuff. And most people, when I sort of say, ‘I’m in the show,’ at dinner or something, a friend of a friend’s like, ‘Oh, you’re in that show?’ because I don’t really carry the beard and hair the same way.’ But you hear some nice stories.
Yeah, he looks super into that.
