Coronavirus: Game of Thrones actor becomes Asda delivery driver during pandemic

Michael Condron played Bowen Marsh in the fantasy epic

Game of Thrones actor Michael Condron has started to work as an Asda delivery driver during the coronavirus pandemic, saying “every single person has a role to play in these times”.

Condron – who played Bowen Marsh, First Steward of the Night’s Watch, in the HBO fantasy epic – has also appeared in the TV shows The Tudors and Soft Border Patrol.

“People now should really appreciate the hard work that everybody does – I think people who work in supermarkets have often been taken for granted,” he told Belfast Live.

“A friend of mine said Asda were looking for people to work there so I got in touch. I came down, got a job and I absolutely love it. The job means I can continue to have that interaction with people like I get in a theatre. It’s kept me mentally in a good place and it continues to do so.”

Condron added he had been doing as many as 18 calls a day, and some customers had recognised him from Game of Thrones, apparently asking him: “Aren’t you that guy off the telly?”

He said he is considering keeping the job on a part-time basis after lockdown ends. “It’s definitely something I would be keen on doing,” he said.

“It’s really good for me. It’s very physical work and it’s keeping me really fit too.”

Condron once played a delivery man in the 2015 film High-Rise, which also starred Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller.