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Speaking with NME (via CBR), Bradley explained that he wanted to do something different after Game of Thrones and soon found his confidence faltering when different roles weren’t coming.
“Nobody seemed to want to take a chance on me and my confidence began to suffer,” Bradley said. “I wanted something different… Every time you have a show as successful as Game of Thrones, loads of [similar characters] follow. But I thought: ‘I’ll resist them.’”
Bradley further explained that he kept getting offered roles that were essentially versions of Samwell Tarly and that getting another big role seemed “pretty outlandish” and then, Lopez called, offering Bradley a role in her film, Marry Me.
“I got a phone call from my agent, and he says Jennifer Lopez is doing a film in New York and she wants you to play her manager,” Bradly said. “I said, ‘Send me the audition script.’ But my agent replied, ‘There’s no audition, she wants you. She’s a fan of the show and seen you in interviews.’ Now a romcom couldn’t be more different to Game of Thrones! It was the reset I needed.”
In addition to Bradley’s very un-Game of Thrones role in Marry Me, the actor also stars in Roland Emmerich’s new film, Moonfall, and while he also praises Emmerich for choosing to present an ordinary person as a big screen hero, it’s Lopez he says “pulled him out of a nightmare time.”
“I’m always going to be very grateful,” Bradley said.
Bradley is also set to star in Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s Netflix adaptation of the Chinese novel The Three-Body Problem, a project he’s very excited about.
“If David and Dan pull this off, it will change the rules of TV again,” Bradley said. “Fingers crossed, it will have the impact they want. I’ve never read a script so ambitious. I’ve never wanted something to succeed so much because, if it does, the game is changed.”
Marry Me and Moonfall are both in theaters now.
