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“Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.”

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RIP Ned Umber

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Oh, and his acting choices. I’ll give you an example. When I got back from Blackwater and I was on the rock and burnt to bits, we rehearsed that scene. And this is a man I’ve been breaking my back for for a long time. His first line was, “I thought you were dead.” And most actors, they’d stand up and there’d be a moment of recognition, that one of the family had returned. Stephen decides he’ll sit down, with his back to me, and he just looked over his shoulder for a moment when he says, “I thought you were dead.” He gave me nothing! That was really brave, because most would go for sympathy or emotion, but Stephen has no desire to be liked. He just doesn’t give a fuck! But for me, it’s brilliant for the scene! Because that’s how my character feels, like, “Is that all I’m going to get?!” It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing we have, that power shift. Stephen’s a joy, a joy.

Liam Cunningham about Stephen Dillane

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“I’m 31, and I left drama school here when I was 22, so I don’t know why it’s all happening now,” says Fassbender, sliding into the sofa seat of a West London restaurant, shuffling up next to Cunningham. “Won’t be long before you’re under fuckin’ house arrest, like Brad Pitt,” says Cunningham, gently needling him. They joke, too, about The Scene. About meeting each other for the first time in a Belfast pub with Steve McQueen, the director of Hunger, and how they bonded by nipping out for a smoke and, says Cunningham, “some heavy petting”. “Yes,” giggles Fassbender. “We called it The Passion.”

Liam Cunningham: I remember Steve [McQueen] on that first day saying: ‘I’m thinking of shooting this scene in one shot’. And my immediate reaction was, ‘Are you out of your fuckin’ mind?!’ So I ended up moving in with Michael.

Michael Fassbender: Into the spare bedroom of my waterfront flat in Belfast.

Liam Cunningham: So every morning, we get up, he puts on the porridge and we start running the fuckin’ scene. At one there’s a knock on the door and we’re handed the food, and the door shuts again. We go on till six or seven o’clock until Steve turns up, looks at our progress, gives us some notes, and then off we go again. Running this scene 15 or 20 times a day for five days.

Michael Fassbender: So when we arrived on set we just went straight into it [slaps his hand, clapper-board style]: Take one, 23 minutes, right through. We did four takes, and they used the fourth.

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The London-based Fassbender, meanwhile, who admits obliquely to being not quite single and not yet married, says that he was more than happy to be sold as a rippling baby-oiled sex object in 300. “Every time we were doing squats in those leather Speedos I used to say: ‘Well, that’s the pink pound covered anyway!’ ” he says, chuckling wildly, and sending Cunningham into paroxysms of laughter.

The two men try to steel themselves for a serious conclusion. Fassbender looks over at Cunningham and asks: “Have we forgotten to tell him anything?” Cunningham shrugs, smirks, then adds: “Other than the fact that we’re lovers, no.”

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Elio Garcia: Why do you like to read the [ASoIaF] books?

Aidan Gillen: Why? I didn't say I like to, I just said I read them.

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John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy and Stephen Dillane attend the Donmar Warehouse Gala in New York City, April 5, 2000.