Underdog hero could still return for season seven

GAME Of Thrones star Isaac Hempstead Wright has refused to reveal whether the show’s underdog hero Hodor will return.

In series six of the hit HBO show, which returns to TV screens on Monday, Hodor, portrayed by Kristian Nairn, saves Hempstead Wright’s character Bran Stark from the White Walkers by barricading the door.

Since the episode aired, rumours circulated Nairn would return as a White Walker in season seven.

Hempstead Wright, 18, said it was “upsetting to lose Kristian from the set who had been my closest companion”.

Asked if this meant the actor would not be returning, the young actor replied: “Well, I didn’t say that.”

Nairn has previously told the Belfast Telegraph: “As a fan I’m not sure I would love that, but as an actor I would absolutely love that and it would be so much fun to play.

“But I kind of think it’s nice the way it’s left, there have been enough rebirth moments in Game Of Thrones.”

On what the penultimate season has in store for Bran, Hempstead Wright said: “It’s not looking good.

“Bran is categorically not ready for the position he is in but he has to be, because Bran’s destiny is to impart this information that he’s been shown.

“So at the end of season six he really kind of needs to re-evaluate and keep a very level head.”

Game Of Thrones Season 7 premieres on Monday on Sky Atlantic and Now TV at 2am.