The actor who plays Bran revealed the secret behind that iconic "Bran stare," and LOL

Anna Sheffer
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Bran Stark's staring in the "Game of Thrones" Season 8 premiere creeped fans out, but Isaac Hempstead Wright has a good reason for his expression.

Game of Thrones Season 8 has kicked off with plenty of ice and fire. The premiere of the HBO series’ final season was filled with some, well, uncomfortable moments. In fact, fans are still talking about Bran’s decidedly creepy facial expression as he waited for “an old friend” (aka Jaime Lannister). And it turns out that Isaac Hempstead Wright, who plays the youngest surviving Stark, has an understandable explanation for why the Three-Eyed Raven has such a soul-piercing gaze.

On the April 17th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jimmy Kimmel brought up the moment when Bran and Jaime saw each other for the first time since Jaime tried to kill Bran by pushing him out a tower window. Kimmel specifically mentioned “the look you gave him.”

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Hempstead Wright’s Three-Eyed Raven stare was also a feature of Season 7, and he told Kimmel that once, when he was shooting a scene with Sophie Turner, she commented on how creepy it was.

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The Three-Eyed Raven may be able to see all, but Hempstead Wright, well, can’t. Bran’s thousand-yard stare suddenly feels less scary.