I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.