While Thrones has a reputation for making stars of its enormous ensemble cast more than casting already widely known performers, McShane is easily one of the most recognizable actors to ever sign on with the series.
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Ian McShane has joined HBO’s Game of Thrones in an as-yet-unidentified Season Six role, Entertainment Weekly reports.
McShane is no stranger to HBO, having spent three seasons on Deadwood as malevolent saloon owner Al Swearengen.
The actor’s big screen credits include Sexy Beast, Kung Fu Panda, Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and John Wick – as well as Sacha Baron Cohen’s forthcoming Grimsby. Who exactly the British actor will play in the drama is shrouded in secrecy, however, with the network staying mum on any character details.
Game of Thrones Season 6 is slated to premiere in April 2016. We’ll know either way when Game Of Thrones returns next year. Loosely following the pattern established by the books, Season 6 should be based on Winter, even though it hasn’t been published yet.
We don’t want to get too far down a spoiler rabbit hole here, but our hope would be that maybe he would be someone tied to the Targeryan or Stark family lineage that maybe has been mentioned, but never before seen to date.
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This news comes just days after HBO’s programming guru Michael Lombardo announced that the series will run for at least eight seasons, instead of the expected seven.
