Is Ian McShane going to play The Mad King Aerys II Targaryen in Game of Thrones Season 6?
Photo of Ian McShane as Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean
He would kill as The Mad King. And literally kill Ned Stark’s father, Ned Stark’s brother, entire cities…
The Internet thinks he’s been cast as Randyll Tarly, father of Samwell, or Euron Greyjoy, uncle of Theon. But “limited screen time” and “key importance” sounds like Aerys Targaryen to us, and as we saw in the first episode of Season 5, Game of Thrones now does flashbacks.
What do you think?
Ian McShane’s Swearengen in Deadwood is one of our all-time favorite antiheroes.
Also, one of the locations of season 6 is Castillo de Zafra in Spain, which is not our keep. And Kit Harington has already been spotted in Belfast, one of the main locations.