HARRY POTTER Actor Jim Broadbent Joins GAME OF THRONES Season 7 In A "Significant" Role
The first major casting addition for the seventh season of HBO's Game of Thrones is a doozy, as Academy Award-winning British thesp Jim Broadbent will be making his way to Westeros next year...
The penultimate season of HBO's Game of Thrones has added the legendary Jim Broadbent to its cast, according to EW. As usual, details on his character are pretty much nonexistent, and all we have to go on is that the role will be a "significant" one.
Speculation seems to be pointing to one of the maesters Sam is set to study under at the Citadel (Archmaester Marwyn, AKA Marwyn the Mage, perhaps?), but now that the show has surpassed George R.R. Martin's source material, it's quite possible he'll be playing someone we haven't even encountered in the books yet.
Broadbent has starred in a wide array of classic movies over the years (Time Bandits, Brazil, Life is Sweet etc), but he'll be best known to the younger generation as Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter movies.
Game of Thrones returns for its seventh season next year.