Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jonathan Pryce slept through his own death. Not his real one, evidently, but that of the High Sparrow, his malevolent zealot in HBO’s sex-and-swords smash Game of Thrones, who was incinerated in a spectacular sequence that used CGI to ape medieval pyrotechnics. When it aired on TV, “there was this really slow build-up to it. It went on for ever,” the star of Brazil and The Crown recalls, “… and I fell asleep.” The following morning, he met his son Gabriel for breakfast at a café. The waiter took their order. “Don’t worry,” the young man joked, “it won’t be green.” Pryce looked up at him, mystified, and chuckled politely. “Gabe said to me, ‘You don’t know what he’s talking about, do you, Dad? That’s how you died.’” The green in question – as any Thrones fan will tell you – …