A sad Game of Thronesspoiler alert ahead: Everyones favorite friendly giant, Hodor, and his best buddy, Bran Stark, will not appear in the shows upcoming fifth season, according to actor Kristian Nairn.
Were not actually in Season Five, by the way, Nairn told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. We have a season off. We have a years hiatus Solely because, I imagine, our storyline is up to the end of the books.
Game of Thrones just began filming its fifth season in Europe, though Nairn who is also a DJ remains in Australia where hes been traveling around the country presenting his Westeros-inspired DJ tour, theaptly titled, Rave of Thrones.
While his trek down under runs through September 7th, Nairn hinted that he might be taking the tour elsewhere now that hes on a break from GoT: I get a year off now to do Rave of Thrones and gallivant all over the world. So even if theres no Hodor holding up Bran on screen, there just might be a Hodor holding down the ones and twos in nightclubs across the globe.
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Despite the absence of Hodor and Bran in Season Five, Game of Thrones did add a number ofnew charactersover the summer, including British screen vet Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean), who will play the High Sparrow, a religious leader who comes to Kings Landing to serve the citys poor.
Other additions include Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as Doran Martell, the ruler of Dorne and the older brother of the Red Viper, Oberyn Martell, who met a gruesome demisein Season Four. Toby Sebastian will play Dorans son and heir to Dorne, Trystane, while Nell Tiger Free plays hiswife-to-be, Myrcella Baratheon, officially the daughter of Cersei Lannister and King Robert Baratheon (though her father is really Jaime Lannister). The Oberyn extended family will also include a few bastard daughters played by Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jessica Henwick and Rosabell Laurenti Sellers.