One of the first popular characters to die horribly on the television series “Game of Thrones” has turned up alive and well in Chiang Mai.
Miltos Yerolemou, who played swordmaster-turned-tutor Syrio Forel, discussed his career, what brought him to terrify students in the north of Thailand and nothing about his forthcoming role in Star Wars in a profile by James Austin at Asian Correspondent.
When asked before in interviews if he would be up to the task of being a teacher, the short-lived profession of his character Syrio Forel, he replied that he is maybe a little too “unconventional” and “easily distracted”, but tells me he has a passion for sharing his acting knowledge with children, especially opening their minds to Shakespeare. So passionate in fact that a rendition of a Capulet scene he performed for the kids in Chiang Mai had some of the children in tears.
“I get carried away sometimes, wanting them to understand powerful emotions; the emotional truth… I scared the shit out of the kids.” It’s not just a play, he tells his students, “It’s alive!” His workshops are unplanned, unconventional, he says; his persona in the classroom is intermittently, “strict, generous, like a dictator, playful, weird.”
He does not address the only real true question though: Is Syrio really dead?
