"I know very little about Game of Thrones, so I can't tell you whether or not he was an important character, and I'm not going to google it just in case he was, because I turned it down." (Yes: Cox was apparently unenthused at the prospect of being floored by a boar.)?
While on the subject of fantasy franchises, Cox also addresses speculation on why he never played a role in the Harry Potter series — and no, despite what you might think, he didn't pull an Alan Cumming and tell the producers to "f--- off.".Nor does he stop there; apparently determined to spill as much tea as possible, Cox adds that he also turned down the role of Governor Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean, noting, "It would have been a money-spinner, but of all the parts in that film it was the most thankless, plus I would have ended up doing it for film after film and missed out on all the other nice things I've done." He also, as revealed in a previously released portion of the excerpt, calls the franchise's star Johnny Depp "so overblown" and "so overrated.".