Jonathan Pryce slept through his own death. Not his real one, evidently, but that of the High Sparrow, his malevolent zealot in HBO’s sex-and-swords smash Game of Thrones, who was incinerated in a spectacular sequence that used CGI to ape medieval pyrotechnics. When it aired on TV, “there was this really slow build-up to it. It went on for ever,” the star of Brazil and The Crown recalls, “... and I fell asleep.”
The following morning, he met his son Gabriel for breakfast at a café. The waiter took their order. “Don’t worry,” the young man joked, “it won’t be green.”
