NOTE: Spoilers for the Game of Thrones season 6 finale
Game of Thrones came to its dramatic sixth season conclusion this week, with Cersei Lannister blowing up King's Landings Sept and all those who stood in it, including Margaery and Loras Tyrell.
Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell / Credit: HBO
Actor Finn Jones who plays Loras spoke to EW about the dramatic scenes, explaining how he didn't actually know his character was being killed off until the evening before the scenes were explored in the episode's first table read.
Jones said: "Well, I got scripts 1 through 9 and read them all and thought, 'Cool, cool, cool. This is good. I only got episode 10 to come'. I felt really positive, there's only one more episode left!
"Then it was the evening before we got together for the table read and they were holding back the script for episode 10. And I was like, 'Why didn't I get episode 10 yet? That's really weird. It's 5pm 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 silence]. And I was like 'Ahhhh, God no! I was so close to season 7!'"
Despite that, Jones felt Loras' death and the timing of it was "so perfect", adding it was "better to blaze out, quite literally, then fade out in seasons to come."
Though he's been killed off from the HBO series, Finn Jones isn't short for work and will be playing the lead titular character in new Netflix Marvel series, Iron Fist.
"I love the character," he told EW. "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."
Marvel's Iron Fist is expected to come to Netflix at some point in 2017.
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