Printed on: Sept 25, 2025 05:47 pm IST
Jack Gleeson is greatest identified for his position as Joffrey Baratheon on the HBO tv collection Recreation of Thrones. He took a hiatus from performing after the present.
Recreation of Thrones star Jack Gleeson is lastly opening up about taking a break from performing after the present. The actor’s efficiency because the villainous Joffrey Baratheon on the present garnered widespread consideration. Now, the actor returns with a brand new present, Home of Guinness. On the premiere, the actor has now debunked the rumours that he took a hiatus from performing due to the hate that his character acquired after the present aired.
What Jack Gleeson stated
Talking to The Hoot on the premiere, the actor clarified the rumours about him taking a break from performing and stated, “Fortunately, it wasn’t as a result of I acquired any type of abuse from anyone. Fortunately! I do know that may occur, sadly. Folks confuse the character [with the actor] however after Recreation of Thrones and even through the present I used to be persevering with to behave nevertheless it was extra of only a theatre firm that I arrange with some mates in Dublin and I used to be extra into that at the moment.”
He added, “However then I began to overlook display screen performing so I acquired again into it. So I do not know it’s the place I used to be simply at the moment.”
About his new present
Home of Guinness is the brand new present from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight. The present explores an epic story impressed by one in every of Europe’s most well-known and enduring dynasties — the Guinness household. Set in Nineteenth-century Dublin and New York, the story begins instantly after the dying of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the person accountable for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impression of his will on the destiny of his 4 grownup kids, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, in addition to on a bunch of Dublin characters who work and work together with the phenomenon that’s Guinness. It additionally stars Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn, Fionn O’Shea and James Norton. The present was launched on Netflix on September 25.
