Conleth Hill Reflects on Varys’s Death on Game of Thrones: “I Really Was Inconsolable”
Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones episode five, "The Bells."The Spider is burned.
In the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, Varys meets his end.
While his fiery death is the first sign of Daenerys's Mad Queen tendencies in the episode, it's a death that the character knows is coming.
The second he hears footsteps approaching, he removes his rings and burns his remaining letters.
For a person who has always put the sanctity of the realm before himself, he stands his ground.After finding out that Jon Snow aka Aegon Targaryen is the true heir to the Iron Throne, he commits treason, disobeying Dany while getting the word out about Jon's lineage.
Initially, actor Conleth Hill took Varys's death "very personally," but eventually he realized the death is "noble and for the good."Following Varys's end, Hill spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the bloody episode.