How do you kill off such a beloved character and not have people upset? Each time we are shocked and left to drown in a pool of our own tears. In a special segment during Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, executive producers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff issued an apology to fans.
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Benioff: “Not for killing Hodor”.
Kristian Nairm, the 40-year-old Irish actor, best known for portraying Hodor in the Game of Thrones, reveals how he really feels about his character’s fate in Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones.
Benioff said that they are apologizing to anyone who will be bothered by people “who, from now on, will be shouting “Hodor” everytime you go through a door”.
Those final moments – “Hold the door”.
“We forgot how annoying people can be”, Weiss says. He died in Sunday’s episode after heroically saving Bran and Meera’s life. “Hold the door.” – have stayed in my head and presumably many of yours since the credits rolled, and no doubt will continue to haunt viewers whenever they look back upon Season 6 or the show in general.
“When it was finally wrapped at the end of season six, they allowed my co-star Isaac Hempstead-Wright to be the one to wrap me”, he said. George R.R. Martin created that world and its characters, but it was Benioff and Weiss who successfully brought it to live-action. That’s our bad. We should have seen that coming.
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“This is happening much, much more rapidly than he thought it was going to happen”, EP Dan Weiss adds of Bran’s stressful transition. You don’t actually see him [die]. He also described Hodor’s death as both “sad” and “satisfying”. He said he came up with the name idea in 1991 and seemed depressed that the show got to reveal it before he did. My favorite part is it ties up the question of why is Hodor ‘Hodor.’ Why does he say the word ‘Hodor?’
