John Bradley on Taking a Year Off After ’Game of Thrones,’ and How ‘Marry Me’ Role Opened the Door to ‘Moonfall’
thewrap.com“Moonfall.” If the big budget film had been his first acting offer after hanging up Samwell Tarly’s maester’s cloak and chains on “Game of Thrones,” though, the British actor might have said no.“Well, funnily enough, the thing upon leaving ‘Game of Thrones’ all those years ago now, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do at the time, but I just knew that I didn’t want to do anything that was going to be comparable to it in any way really, because as soon as something is successful, a lot of clones of it start to appear.
And you see a lot of ‘Game of Thrones’-esque projects starting up,” Bradley told TheWrap during a recent interview. “So, I just thought, ‘Well, I’m not quite sure that I want to be in one of those.
Comparisons will be drawn.’ So I waited quite a long time. I didn’t work for a year after ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I was actually getting a bit down about it just wondering, you know … was I ever going to work again, and actually, the thing that pulled me out of that mire was getting ‘Marry Me,’ which is the other movie that I’ve got coming out.”In “Marry Me,” which is due out on Feb.
11, Bradley plays Collin Calloway, who works for Jennifer Lopez’s music superstar character Kat Valdez. The film’s plot centers around Valdez marrying a stranger (Owen Wilson) in the audience at her concert after a report emerges that her fellow music sensation beau Bastian (Maluma) cheated on her.
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