Some celebrities have had the possibility of making a cameo in the popular series ” Game of Thrones “. One of them was the singer Ed Sheeran who appeared as a soldier of the Lannister house in the premiere episode of the seventh season (2017). He sang a song with his fellow soldiers and shared some meat with Arya Stark. He only appeared for a brief moment and many fans of the show and the singer have often wondered what happened to his character. In this post, we will discuss that based on the info that we have.
Ed Sheeran Game of Thrones: What Happened to Him After Meeting Arya Stark?
The premiere of the eighth and final season of ” Game of Thrones ” broke audience records by being seen by 17.4 million viewers in the United States through all available HBO platforms (television broadcast, HBO GO and HBO Now).
In social networks, the episode titled “Winterfell” became the most talked about in history on Twitter, with more than five million related tweets, and a total of 11 million mentions throughout the weekend.
Ed Sheeran was part of the hit series Game of Thrones, but we never found out more about his character. He had a fleeting cameo as a Lannister soldier in season seven of the show.
The singer’s little performance was about a meeting with Arya Stark when she was on her way back to Winterfell. It was a couple of seconds on camera and yesterday it was hinted at what had happened to the red-haired Lannister soldier.
What was Ed Sheeran’s cameo appearance in Game of Thrones like?
Ed Sheeran’s character crossed paths with Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) who was returning to Westeros. He was singing the song “Hands of Gold” and Arya Stark (the soldiers didn’t know who she was) praised him. Ed Sheeran’s fellow soldiers offered to share their food with Arya Stark and after exchanging stories, Arya revealed that she is heading to King’s Landing to kill Queen Cersei which they all take as a joke.
How did people react to Ed Sheeran’s cameo on Game of Thrones?
Ed Sheeran’s cameo appearance was highly criticized on social media because they felt a star cameo was unnecessary; however this was planned for a long time by the producers of ” Game of Thrones “.
What happened to Ed Sheeran’s character in Game of Thrones?
There was a lot of speculation about Ed Sheeran’s character among fans and finally, in the premiere of the eighth season of the HBO series, his fate was revealed by the producers. In the scene where Bronn (Jerome Flynn) is in the brothel with three women, one of them mentions a young redhead named Eddie who was saved from the flames of Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) dragon.
” He came back with his face burned. He has no eyelids now,” she said in the dialogue. After watching the chapter, Ed Sheeran himself reproduced the dialogue with the phrase “I knew I was a survivor ” in an Instagram story.
The scene in the Game of Thrones season eight premiere showed Bronn with three prostitutes at King’s Landing and two of them were chatting about what happened to the Lannister soldiers when they were attacked by Daenerys and her dragon.
One prostitute said, ‘That Eddie boy, he came back with his whole face burned. Now he has no eyelids. The other asked, “The redhead?”, while Bronn was annoyed.
It was the dialogue that revealed the hard fate of Ed Sheeran’s character that, remember, had a wave of comments on social networks when it appeared. The singer had to temporarily close his Twitter account due to the harassment he received at the hands of fans.
