Game of Thrones star ‘honoured’ to be Battle Festival patron

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The Game of Thrones actor who is the newest patron of Battle Festival said it is an honour to be a part of it.

Anton Lesser, who also starred in the BBC’s Wolf Hall and is a regular for the Royal Shakespeare Company, was announced as a patron last month.

“It’s a fantastic honour for me but I don’t really know what being a patron comprises,” he said.

“I think when they said to me, ‘do you want to be a patron?’, I thought, ‘I wonder what I have to do’.

“But they assured me that it was just a matter of allowing them to use my name in vain and for what it’s worth I’m just thrilled to be associated with it.”

Lesser performed in last year’s festival and was asked to get involved this year on the back of it.

“On the basis of last year they asked if I could come back and I said I would love to if I can fit it in and we’ve managed to carve out this weekend where I’m either not doing Game of Thrones or something else,” he said.