Brian Cox Turned Down A Role In ‘Game Of Thrones’

Turns out Brian Cox is not a fan of Westeros!

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Cox turned down a role to appear in the popular HBO series.

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He said “the money was not all that great.”

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He has absolutely no regrets about not appearing in “Game of Thrones.”

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He said he was supposed to play the character of Robert Baratheon.

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He admitted that he knew very little about “Game of Thrones.”

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However, he did know that he was gored by the boar in the first season.

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Since he was going to be killed off early on, he wasn’t all that interested.

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“So I passed on it, and Mark Addy was gored by the bore instead,” he said.

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