‘Game of Thrones’ star John Bradley: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss ‘have to win those fans back’

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reportedly drew in 44.3 million viewers per episode in its final season — was one of Bradley’s first roles. Now, he’s also co-starring in Benioff and Weiss’ first big follow-up show, “3 Body Problem” premiering Thursday, March 21 on Netflix (and also helmed by Alexander Woo). “‘Game of Thrones’ ended in a way which some people didn’t like…it feels like [Benioff and Weiss] have to win those fans back over,” said Bradley. “They shouldn’t have to prove themselves again.

But, it kind of feels like they’re trying to. I just hope this show goes some way to restore some of the reputation that they rightly deserve.” Based on a series of novels, “3 Body Problem” is a sci-fi epic following Detective Da Shi (Benedict Wong), who’s investigating as scientists all over the world are dying by suicide.

His story dovetails with “The Oxford Five,” a group of former college students who followed different life paths: there’s tech pioneer Auggie (Eiza González); research assistant Saul (Jovan Adepo); theoretical physicist Jin (Jess Hong); teacher Will (Alex Sharp); and Jack (Bradley), who’s now rich from a snack food empire.“When ‘Game of Thrones’ ended, because it was an entire decade of my life – it was pretty much my entire 20s – I wasn’t desperate to get back into another long-running genre based TV series,” said Bradley.But, he said, Benioff and Weiss reached out to him. “They said, ‘We’re doing this new thing, and we’d really like you to be in it.