Iain Glen Admits He Wishes Jorah Got to Make Love to Daenerys in 'Game of Thrones' [SPOILERS]

This story includes spoilers for 'Game of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 3, "The Long Night."

While most of the main characters managed to escape Game of Thrones' Battle for Winterfell alive, Ser Jorah Mormont was not so lucky. Fans said goodbye to the character who has starred on the hit show since Season 1, in the most recent episode "The Long Night."

At first when Jorah lead the Dothraki into the black void of the Army of the Dead, we thought he'd been defeated with the rest of the troops, but he came out and made a face that suggested the battle would not be won by the living.

It wasn't until the most dire part of the battle that Jorah came out and saved Daenerys Targaryen, and died doing so. In the end, though, Jorah died doing the one thing he never stopped doing throughout the entire series, protecting Daenerys. He went out a true warrior.

Iain Glen, the actor behind Jorah, talked to Entertainment Weekly this week about what he thought of his character's storyline throughout the series.

“Jorah got complete forgiveness and then went out the way he wanted to,” Glen said. “I die saving her life and I’ve said that for a good few seasons the nobility of the man is very much within him and he would absolutely sacrifice his life for her to succeed. In a way he was given the conclusion he wanted.”

Throughout the seasons, Jorah and Daenerys' relationship had its ups and downs. Jorah started out as just a spy for the Lannisters, but quickly came to love the Mother of Dragons. Even after being exiled when losing Daenerys' trust, he still managed to gain her forgiveness. But for Glen, the one thing he would've liked to have seen happen between the friends, was a love scene.

“Other than the painfully obvious one of making love to Daenerys, way back when, in all honesty, no," Glen answered when asked if he wished his character could've done more in the show. "It would feel churlish and ungrateful even if I could conjure up something. I’ve always felt very looked after.”

“The whole greyscale journey was not in the original books, and that was something they gifted the character,” Glen continued. “I could say I wish Jorah expressed himself more, but that’s just not who he was. [The showrunners] always said, slightly joshing, ‘You’re great in silence. We always like having you in a scene when you’re not speaking.’ But they were being sweet. But no, there’s nothing.”

In the end, Glen thought that Jorah's relationship with Daenerys definitely changed dynamics for the better, so a love scene wouldn't have even worked.

“There was a significant shift when he lost her love and made this journey to try and win it back,” he said. “Once he won her favor again and was in her orbit. Of course, there has always been a profound love there but him wanting a reciprocal physical love has gone and he was just happy to be with her.”

We'll miss Jorah in the remaining three episodes of Game of Thrones.

[h/t: IndieWire]