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At Comic-Con, the Irish actor dismissed the blowback he received from the article as fake news.
I did an interview withEWway after wed finished the show, Conleth said.
The question was, How did you feel at the time?
I was very honest that I was gutted to get so close and not make the end.
I thought the whole initial interview was very balanced, he continued.
But it was picked over like a whale on a beach.
They took all the negative out of it and none of the positive.
For the record, I loved all my ten years onGame of Thrones.
The thing the last season was about was the futility of conflict and the pointlessness of war.
If you get one thing from that whole show, take that.
Hill tackled the issue first.
You look at the amount of people who are here.
We are here to thank you for watching us all those years, he said.
This is the reality rather than a media-led hate campaign.
It was surprising the level of absurdity of the the online petition, Coster-Waldau said.
Of course HBOs s going to change the whole thing.
Because thats the power of the internet!
Every season, we had huge controversies.
From Ned Stark being killed, Im never going to watch that piece of shit show again!
And then there was the Red Wedding.
And obviously, the end.
Watching it, loving it.
So obviously, It comes to an end, its going to piss you off no matter what.
But at the end of the day, its absolutely fine.
If you hated the ending, if you loved it, thats great.
Just dont call people names.
Its not arriving at the end, thats not the point of this whole thing.
The 6,500-person audience combusted in laughter when Hill deadpanned: I dont regret starting the petition.
