VIDEO: Rory McCann’s ‘The Hound’ Audition

We all know and love The Hound from the show but the audition tape really is spectacular. Check it out!

Interesting, wasn’t it? Quite intense too if I say so myself. However, it really was spectacular and he portrayed The Hound so well on the show. McCann definitely captured the harsh but delicate nature of The Hound with a speech about the origins of his brutal scaring.

McCann also had this to say about the audition:

I think I really only got the part because my sister fucked up. She was supposed to print out what I was meant to learn for the audition speech, but she sent me the wrong one – – only two or three lines, that was it. I was waiting in this heat wave in London at the casting director’s place, and I see everyone reading this big speech for the Hound about how he got his face burned. I had to delay my meeting for four hours so I could learn it. By that time, I was fucking raging. When I walked into the room, I knew I had to go crazy, so I unleashed all this. It was just a fluke that day – –  I was just especially angry. [Laughs] Something worked.

I’d say so! What an interesting story too. I love hearing about auditions and what actors had to go through to get the part. Fun Fact: Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) did the chicken dance at her audition. No idea why, but she did.

Anywho, article was found HERE, check out more if you wish!