The Game of Thrones star admits to “something a bit scary” inside him. So why is he so nervous about playing Scrooge in Melbourne?
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It all started with a car full of booze and a bear costume. Owen Teale, recently suspended from his sixth-form college for organising a riotous Christmas party for fellow students, was in need of a job.
The sight of a disconsolate, sweaty bear riding the ferris wheel caught management’s attention and Teale was sacked. At which point a couple of his co-workers – students from the Guildford School of Acting – suggested he audition at their alma mater. He was accepted, awarded a study grant and Barry the Bear got a ticket out of Wales.“I was going nowhere really. If I hadn’t met those two young women I don’t know what would have happened,” says Teale.
When he portrays Ebenezer Scrooge in an upcoming Melbourne production of Jack Thorne’s award-winning adaptation of Dickens’The truth is this: the avuncular man in the amber-coloured spectacles and leather jacket chatting to me on the line from Leeds is a master of darkness. When Ser Alliser Thorne drove a dagger into the heart of’ Byronic hero Jon Snow in the final episode of Season 5, he left the show’s 10 million viewers in a profound state of shock.
Teale has the grace to admit he enjoys this new level of celebrity. “People seem to realise that without the darkness of people like Ser Alliser, Jon Snow couldn’t have shone as brightly as he did.”He was well into his 50s when he landed his highest profile role, but it would be wrong to think of Teale as a late starter. In 1989, not long out of drama school, he starred in the hit television adaptation of Catherine Cookson’s romance.
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He killed Jon Snow. Now Owen Teale is coming to ruin your ChristmasThe Game of Thrones star admits to “something a bit scary” inside him. So why is he so nervous about playing Scrooge in Melbourne?
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