George RR Martin is the ruthless, character killing man behind the hugely successful Game of Thrones series, which brought us the red wedding, Joffrey Bieber and Jon Snow. As cultural influences go, we'd say after selling millions of copies of the Fire and Ice series as well as the HBO TV series, you'd have to go pretty far to find someone with more power when it comes to TV right now, meaning George RR is in high demand.
While he's happy with the success, Martin had a little vent about the non-stop press tour he's been on over the Summer. Taking to his blog this weekend the US author said he'd done perhaps 100 interviews over the last few months and wasn't exactly keen on the question variation. He wrote on his blog: "I can't give you an exact count... but I must have done at least fifty interviews over the past two months. Maybe as many as a hundred. Radio interviews, TV interviews, magazine and newspaper interviews, private interviews, group interviews, public interviews... in France, in Switzerland, in Scotland, in London, in San Diego, and most recently in LA, on the Red Carpet for the Emmys.
He went on: "On some of the foreign trips, I did entire days of interviews. They would park me in a hotel suite, usher in a journalist or a film crew, we'd talk for a half hour, then my hosts would escort that reporter out, and bring in a new one. Some of the journalists were very sharp. Some... ah... weren't. (A few made me wonder what the hell has happened to the standards of the profession that I once got my degrees in, back at Northwestern.)
"Sitting around a hotel room talking doesn't sound so hard, but it can be grueling. Especially when they all ask the same damn questions."
It appears there's one in particular George just can't get away from, who exactly is his favourite character? It's Tyrion of course!
He said: "Tyrion is my favorite character. Okay? OKAY? Can we PLEASE put that one to rest?? I love all my viewpoint characters, Arya and Sansa and Bran, Jon Snow and Brienne, Arianne and Cersei and Jaime, Theon, even Victarion and the Damphair, ALL of them, but I love Tyrion the bestest. Tyrion son of Tywin, the Imp, second son of Casterly Rock.
"How many bloody times do I need to say it?? I swear, from now on, whenever anybody asks me, "who is you favorite character," I am going to start naming characters from other people's books. Cugel the Clever. Flashman. Gatsby. Hotspur. Solomon Kane. A different one each time..."
It's hard to believe George has a favourite, seeing as though he's so keen on killing them off, but we're glad it's Tyrion. It could explain why he keeps managing to escape no end of near death situations, could the Lannister stud be the one to dodge the bullet when it comes to the GOT death curse?
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