The actor portraying Theon Greyjoy on the hit HBO fantasy series admits that he's initially 'nervous' about treading the boards as 'the pressure just felt so immense to [him].'
- May 22, 2022
AceShowbiz - Alfie Allen has admitted that he's "in shock" over his Tony nomination. The actor portraying Theon Greyjoy on "Game of Thrones" revealed that he was initially "nervous" about treading the boards.
The 35-year-old actor, who made his Broadway debut as menacing stranger Mooney in Martin McDonagh's play "Hangmen", has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Upon receiving the nomination, he said, "I'm slightly in shock a bit."
"[Doing Broadway] was something I was trying to block out at first because the pressure just felt so immense to me, which is silly," Alfie shared. "I was nervous during the rehearsals, but then as soon as we got into the theater, even before rehearsing in the theater, just being in the theater and in that space, I just relaxed into it a bit."
Alfie, who starred on all eight seasons of the hit HBO fantasy series between 2011 and 2019 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role, went on to explain that his fellow castmates were "so supportive." He also added that while he grew up taking part in amateur dramatics, he still gets nervous backstage.
Alfie told PEOPLE, "In the rehearsal rooms I was all over the place, but the cast was so supportive, and they really helped me." He continued, "I was onstage from when I was a child doing community theater, doing pantomime, when I was very, very young, so the idea of being onstage, that doesn't really get on my nerves, do you know what I mean? But all the stuff before does. As soon as I get on [stage], I enjoy it."
Alfie, who is the younger brother of pop star Lily Allen, is set to star ibn the award-winning play about Britain's second-best executioner in the 1960s at the John Golden Theatre in New York until the show closes on June 18. Meanwhile, the 75th Annual Tony Awards ceremony is set to be held just days earlier on June 12.
