Irish actor Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos Seaworth in “Game Of Thrones” has compared the violence of Australia’s “insane” AFL to that of his hit television series. The actor is currently in the country for the Game of Thrones exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
“It’s insane. It’s like, morally wrong,” Cunningham said of the sport, reports The Daily Mail. “There was a guy just taken out, stretchered off. He was running with the ball, waiting to catch this ball. And the other guy caught it in front of him, had his knee up, and he just went down.”
The “Onion Knight”, also known as Stannis Baratheon‘s right-hand man, was witness to the gore when he took his 13-year-old son to watch the Sydney Swans take on the Greater Western Sydney Giants at the SCG on Saturday night. He concluded the whole sport is “gladiatorial and nuts…but strangely enjoyable”.
“A bit like Game of Thrones – you don’t know who’s gonna survive. They’ll have naked Aussie Rules next,” he foretold. “I just thought there were too many people out there,” he added. “I thought there were four teams on the pitch in similar garb.”
The Game of Thrones Exhibition is on at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney from July 1-5. Cunningham told Fairfax die-hard GoT fans in Sydney should jump at the chance to see the exhibition.
“They’re not replicas, they’re the real swords, the real costumes, the real props, the stuff that people have come to love in the show,” he said. “In a week’s time, it has to be put back in containers and taken straight back to Belfast, otherwise I’ll be acting naked.”
