Warning: This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Game of Thrones.
A lot of crazy things happened on the Game of Thrones season-six finale that aired earlier this week, with Tommen Baratheon's spontaneous self-defenestration being one of the craziest. It wasn't so much that he died — valar morghulis and all that — but rather that he did it so casually. In a new interview with Vulture, Dean-Charles Chapman, who played Tommen, broke down his big death scene, and said that it took quite a few takes to get the one that ended up in the episode. "The whole death scene, that was a long, long time," he said. "I'd say, Jesus, falling onto the mat? It's got to be 30 times, or more, for all the different angles. I took a lot of face-plants."
Dean-Charles also said he, like many viewers, wondered why Cersei seemed somewhat less shaken by Tommen's death than she was by Myrcella and Joffrey's untimely demises. "Your son commits suicide, and you're just like, 'That's fine. Give me the crown,'" he said. "Selfish. She literally had no expression whatsoever. She's just like, 'Burn him.' I was like, 'What?! What's up, man?' Show some respect." In Cersei's defense, she'd already seen two kids die, so maybe she just didn't have a ton of emotion left in her. Also, she's a monster.
Finally, Dean-Charles weighed in on the biggest mystery his death left unsolved — what's going to happen to Ser Pounce? "He's probably still in Tommen's chambers, hidden under the bed, shaking with fear or something," he theorized. "I hope he has no worries. I hope he runs around the castle, sees another cat, has some kittens." That optimism will serve Dean-Charles well in life, but in Westeros, not so much. Ser Pounce is probably already in Flea Bottom, trying to avoid ending up in a bowl of brown.
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