The end is near for Game of Thrones as its final season begins, but the cast of the show have been fearing the death of their characters for years.

Axar.az reports citing BBC.

A grisly demise is the first thing they look for when they get scripts for each series, Isaac Hempstead Wright tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

He's played Bran Stark since the first episode, when he was pushed from a tower and crippled by Jaime Lannister.

Bran had a lucky escape that time, but Isaac's been worried about getting bumped off ever since.

"The first thing everyone would do when they got the script was check if they were dying," he says.

"Then when they saw they were safe, they'd check if their friends were dying."

And when the axe fell (quite literally, at times) viewing was as rough for the cast as it was for the fans at home.

"You'd always be dreading any particular landmark scene that you knew was coming up, like the Red Wedding."

If you haven't watched the show a) why are you reading this?! And b) that's a major event in season three when some major characters are killed off - most of them were Isaac's on-screen family, the Starks.

"We all knew that was on its way and we were going to lose lovely Michelle [Fairley] and Richard [Madden] and Oona [Chaplin]. That was really sad."