Game of Thrones’ Isaac Hempstead Wright left stunned after he was told koala fact
How much can a Game of Thrones star bear? It turns out battling White Walkers was nothing compared to coming face-to-face with a koala for Isaac Hempstead Wright. He also teased future episodes of the popular show.
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Battling White Walkers in Game Of Thrones was nothing compared to coming face-to-face with a koala for Isaac Hempstead Wright.
The British actor, who plays Bran Stark in the hit show broadcast on Foxtel, was bemused and a little shocked to find out the Australian marsupials can carry the chlamydia virus.
“It was so much fun, saw the koalas and the wombats,” the 20-year-old said of seeing the Aussie animals while in town for a promotion trip for Foxtel.
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Hempstead Wright laughed when told wild koalas are prone to carrying the sexually transmitted disease.
“You’re joking. Is that actually true?” he said. “That is amazing. I didn’t know you could get chlamydia from a koala.”
Hempstead Wright flew in to town on Thursday and has enjoyed a packed schedule of tourist attractions that also included climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and a stop at Bondi Beach.
His character has become central to the storyline for the eighth and final season of the hit TV drama.
Episode three aired on Monday and Hempstead Wright has been amused by the many memes of Bran vacantly staring that have flooded the internet.
“I think they are hilarious,” he said.
“I have always wanted to be a meme. All my mates keep sending me some and I keep posting them on Instagram.”
Hempstead Wright was just 10 when he shot the pilot episode of Game Of Thrones in 2009.
“It is pretty much all I can remember,” he said, adding: “It’ll all be down hill (from here). No, it is an interesting time and there is no real rule book on what life after Thrones is going to be like. The funny thing is my life is literally only just beginning. It feels like I have lived an entire life and career and yet this is just the start of it so that is slightly terrifying but quite thrilling.”
Outside of Thrones, Hempstead Wright intends to return to studying neuroscience at the University of Birmingham — he put his studies on hold to focus on his acting — and is looking for roles very different to Bran.
“I want to do something in a different kind of world, something light-hearted would be fun after this,” he said.
“For ages, between going to school and being on Game Of Thrones, I haven’t had much time to fit anything else in. So this is the time now where I can kind of find my style and find what kind of projects appeal to me.”
The low-key actor has been snapped by paparazzi and fans in Sydney.
“I am lucky in that I am not like a mega-famous star,” he said.
“The girls (female co-stars) get it so much worse than I get it.
“Immediately they walk out the door they are being judged on what they wear and how they look and whether they have enough make-up on or whatever, so I get it pretty easy.”
Game Of Thrones airs on Foxtel’s Fox Showcase.
Originally published as Game of Thrones’ Isaac Hempstead Wright left stunned after he was told koala fact
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