Tom Wlaschiha Interview Game Of Thrones

Game of Thrones

What'southward it like to play such an enigmatic grapheme?
I don't really know much more the audience does. As an player, y'all play dissimilar sides of the character, and if they're contradictory, and so there you have the surreptitious or the enigma. Information technology's not bad to play a character that is multilayered and not straightforward because it gives you an opportunity to find unlike shades of the character.
How would you depict Jaqen's relationship with Arya?
I think he definitely has a soft spot for Arya. Otherwise he wouldn't be spending that much time with her and really trying to give her the best training she can get. Manifestly, Arya doesn't run into it that way. Afterward Season 5, I got a lot of reactions from the audition asking, "Why? What did you do?" But from his signal of view, over the seasons, Jaqen has been very consistent with what he wants. He picked Arya for a reason, and he'south non making it easy for her, only hopefully that's in her best interest.
Why do you lot think he choose blindness as Arya'southward punishment?
Information technology made sense to me considering it seems cruel, but on the other paw, her other senses are going to get fifty-fifty sharper. Way dorsum at the beginning, Arya says that she has to move like a cat and she has to be unseen. I remember beingness bullheaded simply raises the bar to make information technology more than hard. At the same time, if she manages that, and then that volition brand her fifty-fifty stronger.
With all the fight scenes between the Waif and Arya, practise y'all wish Jaqen got to do more stunts?
Yeah, but I remember information technology's non the character. Jaqen doesn't like to get his hands dingy. If he does something, he is very secretive. He would never show that things accept an effort; he makes everything seem effortless.
Practice you lot call back Jaqen is aware of the Waif's hatred of Arya? Is he using it to serve his purposes?
Nosotros shall see. Simply I call back Jaqen knows everything; zip goes unnoticed in the House of Black and White.
Over the course of three seasons, has the interim dynamic changed between y'all and Maisie Williams?
I think we've e'er had a great dynamic. I love how Maisie's grapheme changes. She grows up with the character, and the character grows upwardly with her. In Season ii Arya was more naïve and she was a niggling girl, and in Season 5 she'southward already much more than – I don't want to say scheming – simply she makes conscious decisions and she thinks of the consequences. It's great for an histrion to be able to play alongside a part that grows with you.
The Game of Thrones Season 6 poster is the Hall of Faces… Is information technology strange running into the Hall out in the real world?
When nosotros were at the L.A. premiere, the afterwards political party pretty much took place in my office.
What tin can fans expect for Jaqen and Arya'due south storyline this season?
To tease anything without giving away anything… Well, I think the storyline is moving towards a climax. Jaqen wants to proceed with Arya'southward grooming to make her the best possible weapon that she can be, and we'll run across if Arya complies with that.