'Game of Thrones' star who plays Ramsay was almost cast as Jon Snow

LONDON -- If there's one thing that Ramsay Bolton and Jon Snow have in common, it's that they're both played by awesome actors.

And as with all great performances, after more than five seasons it's really hard to imagine the characters being played by anyone else.

But things were nearly very different.

Speaking to Interview Magazine recently, Iwan Rheon (a.k.a. Ramsay Bolton) revealed he almost had an entirely different part to play in Game of Thrones.

"When the pilot first came it was a general audition," Rheon explained when talking about his original reading for the show. 

"I think it was for Viserys, Daenerys' brother.

"And then they were like, 'Can you come back in and read for this other character, Jon Snow?' At the time I didn't know much about it. So I auditioned for Jon Snow, but so did a lot of other people probably."

Rheon went on to say that he thinks the final choice for Jon Snow was between him and Kit Harington.

"It could've been so different,"

"It could've been so different," he said. "I'd be dead now!" 

"I think they made the right choice; it would've been a very different Jon Snow if I'd played him. I don't think there's much point in dwelling on these kind of things. You're inevitably going to know other actors going up for parts and you have to be open about it. 

"The majority of the time it's a specific thing they're looking for, which could easily come down to how you look, and there's not an awful lot you can do about that."

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