The actor apparently agrees as much with his diminished role, claiming “I was entirely dependent on Liam [Cunningham] to tell me what the scenes were about.”
I was entirely dependent on Liam to tell me what the scenes were about — I didn’t know what I was doing until we’d finished filming and it was too late.
Game of Thrones has its reputation for major stars in minor roles, but few characters were short-changed like Stephen Dillane’s Stannis Baratheon.
Dillane’s Stannis remains a symbol of that excess, but there’s always hope Liam Cunningham might one day revisit his king.