Game of Thrones star: I used to be a drag queen
A star of the new series of Game of Thrones has revealed he previously worked as a drag queen and male stripper.
British actor Deobia Oparei, who is set to make his debut in the new series as Areo Hotah ā the guard of Prince Doran Martell of Dorne ā made the revelation in an interview in Australia.
He said: āI did everything, I use to be a drag queen, I use to be a stripper.ā
āI went on tour to Sydney with a theatre company and I thought I want to live here and I want to stop acting and I want to learn to dance and I want to learn to become a writer, to become a dancer and become a stripper.
āSo I was 22 I got to Sydney and I became all of those things.
āI had these seven years where I lived this incredible maverick lifestyle of being a street performer, I use to have this character called āThe Witchdoctorā that was based at The Rocks in Sydney where I would dance half naked and then I got invited to do hens nights and whatever and a stripper.
āI just thought if I want to be an actor, how could I be an actor and not have experienced different parts of life, experience what itās like to live so I spent seven years doing all these different kinds of jobs.ā
Actor Kristian Nairn, who plays Hodor in the hit series, came out as gay last year ā revealing he had been waiting years for an interviewer to ask.
