Game of Thrones Maester Cressen, Oliver Ford Davies, chats about trying to kill the red priestess Melisandre with poison and why she can't be killed, all-night shoots on the beach with flaming idols, working with Stephen Dillane (Stannis Baratheon) and Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) & why his character Cressen had to have sideburns rather than a beard. Full Game of Thrones playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD789F78F99814C3C with Game of Thrones Cast Red Wedding Reactions, Seasons 3 & 4 spoilers, Loras Tyrell (Finn Jones), Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance), Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen), Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel), Ygritte (Rose Leslie), Walder Frey (David Bradley), Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), Yara Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan), Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Snow), Syrio Forel (Miltos Yerolemou), Gendry (Joe Dempsie), Quaithe (Laura Pradelska), Hodor (Kristian Nairn), Pycelle (Julian Glover), Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy), Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony), Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick), Eugene Simon (Lancel Lannister), Oona Chaplin (Talisa Stark), Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), Grenn (Mark Stanley), Rast (Luke Barnes), Barristan Selmy (Ian McElhinney), Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), Jeor Mormont (James Cosmo), Gregor Clegane - The Mountain (Ian Whyte), Pyp (Josef Altin), White Walker (Ross Mullan), Podrick Payne (Daniel Portman), Jaqen H'ghar (Tom Wlaschiha), Richard Dormer (Beric Dondarrion), Brian Fortune (Bowen Marsh), Benjen Stark (Joseph Mawle), Fintan McKeown (Amory Lorch), Blackwater director Neil Marshall & Wales Comic Con 2013 Panel. http://bit.ly/movie-interviews-tv - Watch more Game of Thrones interviews! http://FlicksAndTheCity.com - Visit Flicks and the City! http://facebook.com/FlicksAndTheCity - Like Flicks and the City on Facebook! http://twitter.com/flickscity - Follow Flicks and the City on Twitter! Interviewer: Jan Gilbert http://twitter.com/jan_gilbert - Follow Jan on Twitter! http://JanGilbert.co.uk - Visit JanGilbert.co.uk! Featured on http://flicksandthecity.com/game-of-thrones-cressen-melisandre-oliver-ford-davies-interview/ Cressen Cressen is a minor character in the second season. He is played by guest star Oliver Ford Davies and only appears in "The North Remembers." Cressen is the Maester of Dragonstone. He dies trying to trick Melisandre into sharing a poisoned cup of wine with him. Cressen is a maester of the Citadel, a man of learning assigned to a castle to advise its inhabitants in matters of science and medicine. Cressen has served Lord Stannis Baratheon at Dragonstone for many years. Season 2 Cressen is worried about the influence that the red priestess Melisandre has over Stannis, and is horrified when she gets him to renounce the Faith of the Seven. When she has the carved wooden statues of the Seven burned on the beach, he speaks out against doing this. He says that all of them were named in the light of the Seven, and they risk the wrath of the Gods. Cressen tries to talk to Davos about going against her, but Davos refuses, saying that right now is not an opportune time to act. The maester decides that if Stannis can't be talked into putting Melisandre aside she must be killed, before she leads him into a war he cannot win. Later Cressen sits at the Painted Table, at a council meeting with Stannis, Davos, and Melisandre. When puts poison in a cup of wine, Davos silently urges him to stop be he does not. Walking around the table, Maester Cressen says that they should put their differences aside and asks Melisandre to drink a toast with him. He drinks from the cup first and hands to her. She watches him and sees his nose start to bleed. She knows it's poison, but smiling she drinks the rest of the wine. As he dies almost immediately, he sees her standing over him unaffected by the poison. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Cressen is a long-standing servant of House Baratheon. He was maester at Storm's End for many years, and advised Stannis during the year-long siege of the castle by the armies of House Tyrell during Robert's Rebellion. After the death of Lord Steffon Baratheon in a shipwreck, Cressen had adopted a fatherly attitude to the three Baratheon boys, particularly to Stannis, who lacked the charm of Robert and Renly. After Stannis was made Lord of Dragonstone, Cressen followed him to his new home, something uncommon amongst Maesters, who are assigned to keeps and castles and not to lords, and has continued to advise him there ever since. Approaching eighty years of age, Cressen has started to slow down, so the Citadel have sent him an assistant, Pylos, who will take up his burdens and eventually replace him, a prospect Cressen is not happy about. Cressen information from http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Cressen

• published: 22 Nov 2013
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