Game of Thrones season 6: Bran actor says Tower of Joy visions will bring ‘bombshells’

Episode 3 cut Bran's vision pretty short

Game of Thrones fans were left a little disappointed by the briefness of the Tower of Joy flashback on Sunday night, but Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark) has promised his next visions in the show will be more elucidating.

Depending on how aware he is that the R+L=J theory is widely known, he also potentially hinted that the Tower’s reveal won’t be what everyone is expecting.

“Every single vision, you’re learning something new, and you’re seeing a real bombshell,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s what we’ll see in the next few episodes. There are no visions where we’re like, ‘Oh, well, cool, we kind of already knew that anyway.’ Every time it’s like, ‘Oh, wow! That’s extraordinary!’ There are a couple of visions coming up that I’m really excited to see.”

There are several variations on the theory surrounding the castle we saw a young Ned Stark heading to in episode 3, one of which posits that Jon Snow has a twin sister.

As for Bran witnessing his father winning the fight outside it in more dirty fashion than he recounted, Hempstead Wright had this take on the scene:

“Yeah, as far as he’s known, his father has been nothing but completely honorable and kind and generous and a good man. So Bran’s watching this fight, expecting it to go one way, with his father coming in to save the day. And there’s this great line where Bran says something like: “But father wins! I’ve heard the story a thousand times!” And clearly someone’s been lying. Bran sees that it was a dirty backstabbing, and that’s quite shocking for Bran. It’s a totally different side to his father that he hadn’t quite been exposed to before. All the sudden, here he is. His hero isn’t all that he’s quite cracked up to be, necessarily. It also raises some questions. There’s no arguing the fact that Ned was a good man, so whatever forced him to fight in that dishonorable way clearly must have been something quite enormous. It raises the question of why he did that, and what does it mean for the rest of us?”

This morning, we learned the titles for episodes 5 and 6 of season 6, which hint at the possible return of a much-loved character.