Iain Glen as Doug in “Small Engine Repairs”.

Interview with Iain re: Doug - He calls him “a bear of a man”!

His cracking singing voice is not the only surprise in store. Glen, one of Scotland’s handsomest men, plays it downright dowdy, his good looks obscured by a beard that reduces him to a pair of the bluest eyes and a much-furrowed brow. Actresses pay lip service to the joys of playing ugly because it’s a stretch, how was it for him? “Really good fun! [Doug] is careworn, weather-beaten, hapless, very benign and sort of hopeless, then something changes inside him. It felt interesting territory to go into. I bearded up to create a messiness. My features are naturally quite cheek-bony and angular and as a result you can look a bit tidy. I wanted to round out my face a bit and mess up the edges. I saw him as a big bear of a man, and again, I’m tall and thin. You try to adjust physically to suggest that.”

(A modern Ser Jorah Mormont!)