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“What are you talking about? It’s a kid’s show!
During a conversation with BBC journalist Katie Razzall, Knight said that his son had asked for a boxset of Game of Thrones for Christmas, which he purchased without questioning the content of the show after seeing that it featured dragons.
It was only when Irish actor Aidan Gillen was suggested to him for the role of Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders and was told that he played the brothel keeper Lord Petyr Baelish in Game of Thrones, that he realised the George RR Martin show covered a lot of adult themes.
Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, thought that Game of Thrones was a kid’s show until he cast Aidan Gillen in his own series.
Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in London, Knight admitted that due to his young son’s obsession with the HBO show, he’d dismissed it as being for a younger audience.
Game of Thrones is one of the biggest shows that HBO has ever made. It came to an end in 2019, despite Martin having not finished his two remaining books in the series.
Recently Martin expressed frustration about writing the new books on his Not a Blog page, saying that although he has produced “new pages” he has struggled to find “solace” in his writing.
It was only when Irish actor Aidan Gillen was suggested to him for the role of Aberama Gold in Peaky Blinders and was told that he played the brothel keeper Lord Petyr Baelish in Game of Thrones, that he realised the George RR Martin show covered a lot of adult themes.
Game of Thrones is one of the biggest shows that HBO has ever made. It came to an end in 2019, despite Martin having not finished his two remaining books in the series.
