Stephen Dillane doesn't miss playing Stannis: "I just felt as if I didn't get it" 

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​last season as the unforgiving Stannis Baratheon​ - and now actor Stephen Dillane has admitted that he "didn\'t get" his character\'s role in the hit series.

Dillane told press including ​Digital Spy ​that he regrets not reading George RR Martin\'s novels, since he struggled to get a grasp on Stannis across his four seasons with the show.

"I wish I\'d read the books - I might have got a better idea of where it was all going," he said.

"I just felt as if I didn\'t get it, and had I read the books, I might have had a better idea of the role of the character - what he was meant to be. It might\'ve helped."

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Stannis was executed by Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) in the show\'s fifth season finale - with Dillane joking that he was only disappointed "financially".​

"I could\'ve done with another year," he said. "But as far as whether that character should\'ve continued or not continued... or what the investment in him is, I really don\'t know."

And while he admitted to missing his old castmates - particularly Davos Seaworth actor Liam Cunningham - Dillane added that he otherwise was happy to leave 

"You\'re such a cog in the machine," he said. "I missed hanging around with some of the people, but the actual experience of filming? No, I don\'t miss that.

"I was going in for a day or two, here and there, so I\'d sort of forgotten who everybody was each time I went in, because it\'s so massive."

Maybe it\'s no bad thing, then, that Stannis\'s exit - unlike Jon Snow\'s - looks set to be permanent...

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