Game of Thrones actor shares painstaking struggle with filming Red Wedding scene

The scene is considered one of the most brutal in television history

One of the actors at the centre of Game of Thrones' most infamous sequence has revealed his struggles with the scene.

David Bradley, who played the villainous Walder Frey in the HBO series, took centre stage for season three’s Red Wedding episode, which ended with the death of three main characters.

The twist was so shocking that it made headlines the next day – something Bradley states he never expected while filming it.

“When the Red Wedding landed in my letterbox, I thought ‘Oh, this is going to be a little bit different,'” The Sun reports the British actor as saying.

“Even when we filmed it, I thought ‘This is going to stir up a few feelings,’ because [I was] getting rid of a lot of favourite characters – but nothing prepared me for the reaction after it came out.”

Bradley’s character is the one who orders the death of favourites including Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his wife Talisa (Oona Chaplin) and Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley).

The actor was tasked with delivering a speech during the sequence and it was so long – four pages in total – that it took them 70 takes to get right.

“All I had to do was remember a four page speech, which I had to do 70 times in one day, introducing everyone and welcoming everyone with bread and salt,” he said.

“After that I just had to sit back and drink fake wine while they got on with the business of massacring all those people. I just had to sit there and enjoy it.”

Game of Thrones, which ended in May 2019, is available to watch on NOW TV.