While most actors study a character's source material to prepare, Richard Madden never read George R.R. Martin's novels before playing Robb Stark in Game of Thrones. The reasoning implicit in his account: he wanted to play the scenes as written for the show, not as he'd imagined them as a reader. The trade-off is real — you protect the performance from the reader's imagination, but you surrender every plot point to anyone who has read ahead.
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