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With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

You want to keep it in there because you feel like it's yours but to be able to see that sometimes some stuff needs to go and I think it's for the benefit of the film.

It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.