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26th March 2019
07:50pm GMT

"On a personal level as it went on, I stopped letting it have such an impact on me. Yes, I was in this big TV show and I was playing this character… but that’s not my life."
He added that the level of scrutiny he was under after Snow was killed in the season five finale was "disorientating".
"It was probably one of the darkest periods I have been through in my life," he said. "I think it must have had something to do with being a walking cliffhanger: I didn’t enjoy it.
"You want to be a lead, and then you get all the spotlight of the biggest show in the world onto you for a few months. It’s very disorientating, and weird, and unpleasant in many ways. That’s kind of where I went, ‘I need to separate me from the show a bit.’"Explore more on these topics: