On their journey, Gendry befriends the Brotherhood Without Banners, which sells him to Melisandre, who is working with his uncle Stannis Baratheon. Eventually, Arya, Gendry and their friend Hot Pie leave, heading north to River Run. In his second scene, Gendry is sold to the Night’s Watch, which is where he meets Arya, who has cut her hair short to disguise herself as a boy. In Season One, Gendry is working as a blacksmith when he meets Ned Stark who, from first glance, realizes he’s a bastard son of Robert Baratheon-though Gendry doesn’t know who his father is. Dempsie was told that he’d only be in two episodes in Season One, and that he’d have just one scene in each. But when he got the Gendry role, it wasn’t clear exactly how big the role would be. After his character’s death, Dempsie had taken small roles here and there, waiting for his next big thing. “I thought he was playing a trick on me,” he laughs.īefore Thrones, Dempsie had made a name for himself as Chris Miles in Seasons One and Two of the British teen drama Skins. He’d finally landed a Game of Thrones role. And I was fairly convinced it was the worst audition I've ever given.”Ī week later he got a call from his manager. And there was like four other producers in the room, too. And then a final one where David and Dan were there again. I had one in London, then one in Belfast where I met David and Dan for the first time. “Then Gendry came along and again I went along to the audition and I think it was three auditions I had. “Didn't get either of those and was convinced that they must just think I'm a terrible actor,” he says. Martin books from a friend, he tried again-this time he auditioned for two minor characters who are Jon Snow’s friends from the war. It was just another audition.”īut a year-and-a-half later, after learning more about the George R. “Nobody knew it was going to become the biggest TV show on the planet at that point. Though Dempsie’s character has defied the odds to make it to the final season of Game of Thrones, and has turned out to be a much more pivotal character than he seemed back in Season One, Dempsie had his eye on an even more central part when he auditioned for the series a decade ago. What a stupid question! I think he knows deep down in his heart of hearts there is no way Arya will ever be anyone’s lady. And she quite rightly told him where to go. And he just got a bit gassed and asked someone to marry him. "He’d just been made a lord-he’d known for awhile now where he’s come from but the recognition of that by someone in authority has given him an ability to find a place in the world that I think he’s been searching for his entire life. "Gendry just got a bit excited, didn’t he?" Dempsie laughs. Joe Dempsie originally auditioned for three other Game of Thrones characters-including Jon Snow-before being cast as Gendry. So fans were thrilled when he returned-and reunited with Arya Stark, to whom he proposed in Episode Four after he was bestowed with the title of Lord of Storm's End. In fact, he was off-camera rowing for three full seasons after Davos Seaworth rescues him from the clutches of Melisandre in Season Three. As the last known living child of Robert Baratheon, he has a claim to the Iron Throne, but his total screen time has been relatively meager. He's portrayed as an outsider, which makes him relatable, despite playing an incredibly important role in the series. Gendry's humility-along with his many shirtless blacksmith scenes-have made him an easy character to like and root for. "So, we freeze frame the video on her face and then I went and planted a kiss and we took a picture and sent it to her," the 31-year-old says. Finn Jones (who plays Ser Loras Tyrell) insisted Dempsie respond. Marie, the star of the YouTube video, went so far as to send her song to all of Dempsie's Thrones castmates. When talking about his passionate fans, he seems genuinely tickled about the attention. Dempsie shares a certain modesty with his character.
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