If you’re like me, you spend 79% of your day thinking about “Game of Thrones” and “Justified.” And of that 79%, 67% is focused on Joffrey hate and Boyd Crowder’s marvelous hair. I regret nothing. Luckily, GQ is about eight steps ahead of me, and they devoted an entire section of their website to “Bad Guys,” including interviews with Jack Gleeson (Joffrey) and Walton Goggins (Boyd). The two most telling quotes are:
GQ: Was there a physical detail that helped you get into Boyd Crowder’s head?
Goggins: The buttoning of the top button of his shirt. Once I did that, it was like, “I got this guy.”
GQ: Have you ever rooted for a villain?
Gleeson: There’s a scene in Psycho, when Norman Bates has just killed Marion and put her in the trunk of a car and he’s pushing the car into a lagoon. The scene is so tense and you see his face and he’s like, “Oh, please. Can this car just go under…” And you’re like, “Yeah, I hope so too, man, and I hope the cops don’t come…” But, wait a second, he just killed this girl for no reason! I was rooting for a murderer.
Where Goggins is methodical and intelligent, not unlike Boyd, who believes there’s no detail to small, Gleeson is all about YAY RUTHLESS KILLING. Because he’s Joffrey and he’s pure evil and I hope terrible, awful, no good, rotten things happen to him during Sunday’s finale. The fact that he looks like a damaged cyborg whose only objective is to kill and overly comb his hair in the picture above ain’t helping, either.
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And yet their respective photos would suggest the opposite.
Waitwaitwait. So you’re telling me Joffrey’s real name is Jack Gleeson?? Suddenly I can’t wait for him to get married and hear him make odd threats about sending her on a trip into space.
“One of these days, Sansa, BOP BAM BOOM straight to the second moon than was really a giant egg that crashed into the first moon and created all the dragons in the world!”
+1 copper Joey Joe Joe
I feel like if we actually locked Joffrey in a room with Boyd Crowder, that problem would solve itself.
hey, I have a room!
Gleeson has the future evil dictator look down well.
Hole ona minnit, playa….Boyd Crowder isn’t evil; he may commit evil acts, but he does so for a specific purpose. King Joffery, on the other hand, is a sadist who goes out of his way to commit malicious acts, but in reality is too much of a coward to fight himself. Boyd doesn’t necessarily enjoy killing, or go out of his way to do evil acts without cause; that’s the line between evil and just lacking remorse. And even though Boyd has a swastika on his chest, he’s not really a white supremacist (at least not anymore).
Boyd Crowder is more like Tyrion than Joffery.
You’re my Boyd, Blue!
On another note, when the hell is SOA slated to come back? I need more Jax in my life.
But how great is Gleason hinting at his Joffrey Bitchface Sneer in that pic?
I don’t think people mind Joffrey’s sadism so much as they’re bothered by the fact that he looks like the long lost Jedward triplet.