{"id":182137,"date":"2017-03-07T22:47:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/game-of-thrones-gave-financial-independence-to-conleth-hill-business-standard\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T03:47:36","slug":"game-of-thrones-gave-financial-independence-to-conleth-hill-business-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/financial-independence\/game-of-thrones-gave-financial-independence-to-conleth-hill-business-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; gave financial independence to Conleth Hill &#8230; &#8211; Business Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>      IANS | Los      Angeles March 8, 2017 Last Updated at 05:16 IST    <\/p><p>    Northern Irish actor Conleth Hill says    popular fantasy drama series \"Game of Thrones\" has brought some    balance in his career, as well as financial    independence.  <\/p><p>    Hill, who is seen as a bald-headed    eunuch Lord Varys in the hit TV series \"Game of Thrones\",    talked about how his life changed after the series with    whatsonstage.com, read a statement from Star World, which airs    the show in India.  <\/p><p>    Asked if the show made it difficult for    him to fit in theatre and film too, Hill said \"not    really\".  <\/p><p>    \"It's such a large cast that you are    never overused. It's not so taxing. I suppose earlier in my    career I wouldn't have been able to do film and TV as much    because I would have been in a play for so long. I did a lot of    long runs when I was younger,\" he said.  <\/p><p>    Hill also said that with \"Game of    Thrones\", they do it six months a year at the most.  <\/p><p>    \"So when you're not working on it, you    get to do something else. It's a bit like being semi-retired,\"    he said, adding that it's a \"very great and rare thing for an    actor to have that\".  <\/p><p>    \"So I suppose 'Game of Thrones' has    given me financial independence. But it's never been about the    money for me. I always did things I really wanted to do,\" he    added.  <\/p><p>    The season seven of \"Game of Thrones\"    is due to be back on Star World Premiere HD in India later this    year.  <\/p><p>    --IANS  <\/p><p>    sug\/rb  <\/p><p>    (This story has not been edited by    Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated    feed.)  <\/p><p>      Northern Irish actor Conleth      Hill says popular fantasy drama series \"Game of Thrones\" has      brought some balance in his career, as well as financial      independence.    <\/p><p>      Hill, who is seen as a      bald-headed eunuch Lord Varys in the hit TV series \"Game of      Thrones\", talked about how his life changed after the series      with whatsonstage.com, read a statement from Star World,      which airs the show in India.    <\/p><p>      Asked if the show made it      difficult for him to fit in theatre and film too, Hill said      \"not really\".    <\/p><p>      \"It's such a large cast that      you are never overused. It's not so taxing. I suppose earlier      in my career I wouldn't have been able to do film and TV as      much because I would have been in a play for so long. I did a      lot of long runs when I was younger,\" he said.    <\/p><p>      Hill also said that with \"Game      of Thrones\", they do it six months a year at the most.    <\/p><p>      \"So when you're not working on      it, you get to do something else. It's a bit like being      semi-retired,\" he said, adding that it's a \"very great and      rare thing for an actor to have that\".    <\/p><p>      \"So I suppose 'Game of Thrones'      has given me financial independence. But it's never been      about the money for me. I always did things I really wanted      to do,\" he added.    <\/p><p>      The season seven of \"Game of      Thrones\" is due to be back on Star World Premiere HD in India      later this year.    <\/p><p>      --IANS    <\/p><p>      sug\/rb    <\/p><p>      (This story has not been edited      by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a      syndicated feed.)    <\/p><p>      IANS    <\/p><p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/wap\/images\/bs_logo_amp.png\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/wap\/images\/bs_logo_amp.png<\/a>        177 22      <\/p><p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c99da07de2go_amp.png-150x19.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>See more here: <\/p><p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/game-of-thrones-gave-financial-independence-to-conleth-hill-117030800111_1.html\" title=\"'Game of Thrones' gave financial independence to Conleth Hill ... - Business Standard\">'Game of Thrones' gave financial independence to Conleth Hill ... - Business Standard<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> IANS | Los Angeles March 8, 2017 Last Updated at 05:16 IST Northern Irish actor Conleth Hill says popular fantasy drama series \"Game of Thrones\" has brought some balance in his career, as well as financial independence. Hill, who is seen as a bald-headed eunuch Lord Varys in the hit TV series \"Game of Thrones\", talked about how his life changed after the series with whatsonstage.com, read a statement from Star World, which airs the show in India. Asked if the show made it difficult for him to fit in theatre and film too, Hill said \"not really\".  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/financial-independence\/game-of-thrones-gave-financial-independence-to-conleth-hill-business-standard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}