Yahoo News Game of Thrones' Iwan Rheon couldn't turn down Hitler
If there's one villain more loathsome than Game of Thrones' Ramsay Bolton, it's Adolf Hitler - so spare a thought for poor Iwan Rheon, who's played both of the bastards.
The Welsh actor brought his particular brand of menace to the HBO series for four seasons, and he'll be back as the leader of Nazi Germany in Sky Arts' new series Urban Myths.
Speaking to Jamie Stangroom ahead of the show's airdate, Rheon said that he doesn't want to be typecast for "playing too many baddies".
But sorry lad, we don't think it gets much worse than these two.
"[Being typecast] is something I massively have to look out for," he said. "But it's a short film.
"You get offered to play Hitler in a half hour satirical view of him trying to be an artist and you cant really turn it down.
"But I think I have to be very wary now of not playing too many baddies."
During the interview, Iwan also revealed that Game of Thrones put him off dogs and that he's scared off Duck Sauce's 'Big Bad Wolf' - but is it any wonder?
After all, his GoT character Ramsay Bolton was eaten by his own flesh-eating pack of dogs after being defeated by Jon Snow at the 'Battle of the Bastards', so we can definitely see why that might be traumatic.
Nothing like playing a young Hitler to take his mind off the brutality, then...
Iwan will play Hitler in one of several half-hour episodes of Urban Myths.
The show is based on the more unusual aspects of the lives of history's most ubiquitous figures, including Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali.
Joseph Fiennes was set to star as Michael Jackson in the series, but his episode was cut after offending MJ's daughter Paris.
Urban Myths starts on January 19 at 10pm on Sky Arts.
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