Last year I asked Iain if he would mind answering a few questions from fans for us. It took him a while but finally got round to answering them and they really have been worth the wait. I have attached his original typed answer sheet along with the note he sent to me with the answers.

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1) What is your most embarrassing moment on a film set? Regina Zschoke

I have had many embarrassing moments on a film set. I think it’s just the nature of the beast.
As an actor you put yourself on the line and there is always a danger of ridicule. A very early memory is being on a set of a BBC drama called The Picnic (1987).

I was working with a wonderful actress called Billy Whitelaw and we were playing lovers. She was a teacher and I was a young adult with learning difficulties and we formed a bond that lead to love. We were doing a very sensitive first kissing scene and I, full of anxiety and probably trying to be method, used my tongue ever so slightly. She was very sweet and made no comment but the director after the first take came over and said “Iain, can you not do that? On camera your tongue looks like a huge slug.” I felt mortified and ashamed. The director could have offered more gentle direction. But Billie and I became the best of friends. Sometime later she introduced me to one of my childhood heroes, the writer Samuel Beckett while we were rehearsing in Paris.

2) Do you have a personal philosophy or ‘mantra’ of sorts that has been especially valuable and relevant to you on your life’s journey? Marissa Valentine

I have no personal philosophy or ‘mantra’. I think life is what you make of it. It’s in the eye of the beholder. The exact same set of circumstances can be looked on with despair or joy. There is a great inequality to what people are born into throughout the world. I know I have been incredibly lucky to have been gifted the life I was given. I have no good reason not to wake up each day and celebrate the possibilities. So I just try and try to make the most of things. Life offers so many beautiful things to enjoy. Avoid the negative and nuture the positive.

3) What do you think about social media and your fans especially about your fans in Ser Jorah’s Army? Daniela Bosslet

I’m afraid I’m a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to social media. I’ve just never used that method of finding information or communicating with friends. I have never tweeted. I have never had Facebook or Instagram. It’s a bit of a mystery to me why people stare at tablets and phones. I feel that the world must be passing them by. That said, I do utilise the internet and I’m still awed as to what is available at a touch of a button. I’m fairly computer literate and use it recording music, mixing movies, developing photographs, reading newspapers and a great deal more.

I thank Jorah’s Army for all their incredible support. I am truly flattered that I have fans out there that have so much belief in me. I thank you with all my heart.

Read the rest of the answers here.

Jorah Mormont has spent the last six years of Game of Thrones wandering Essos in pursuit of the unrequited love-of-his-life Daenerys Targaryen.

But when he’s not at the Mother of Dragons’ beck and call, actor Iain Glen has kept himself busy. While working on Thrones, Glen has simultaneously acted in a series of TV movies based on Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor novels. Glen plays the title character, who Stuff describes as a “disgraced cop-turned-private detective” who “investigates those cases that other people, including the police, won’t investigate.” It sounds like Glen has quite the handle on the whole “disgraced but nevertheless honorable working man” thing.

Between Thrones and Jack Taylor, Glen has experience appearing in literary adaptations, although he acknowledges he doesn’t always physically resemble the characters as described in the books. As he tells it, that’s certainly the case with Jorah:

I don’t think I bear any physical resemblance whatsoever to the character that George R.R. Martin described in the books on which the series is based. I think he was a very dark-haired, wiry man with an ugly face–I’m not saying I don’t have an ugly face–and I think quite short and stocky […] But they probably thought it would be good if you could see why [Jorah and Daenerys] might get it together. If you had an ugly stump of a man who had no chance whatsoever and was fairly repellent then it would be harder for them to tell that story.

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Source: WIC.net