Tywin Refused to Hit the Books
Charles Dance, the actor who played Tywin Lannister, never read A Song of Fire and Ice. He explained that reading the books on which a film adaptation is based can sometimes be detrimental to filming. “It’s counterproductive sometimes for actors to go back to the book, because they then tend to come on set and say, ‘Why aren’t we doing this scene? I’ve got this wonderful line here, and I want it in.’ That’s not what we’re about.”