Years after aired its series finale, mixed feelings about the show’s final moments remain. And it’s not just fans who have been speaking out lately, the Emmy-winning show’s cast has been vocal about how things ended too.

Among them is Jack Gleeson who famously starred as . The actor seemingly after wrapping his time on the show (although ). And while Gleeson’s character was killed off long before the finale, the actor has since made a rather surprising admission regarding the series ending.

By then, Gleeson had been prepared to leave the show since . “Yeah, definitely. That was one of the first things I did when I heard I got the part: I looked at the Wikipedia summary of the books and my character,” he said.