Long Live King Æthelstan | Harry Gilby discusses Seven Kings Must Die

[@leadittmann6128]

Harry Gilby is such a nice, genuine, talented young actor! Thanks guys for this interview! :)

[@thescreenchronicles]

Thanks for watching! Harry is awesome and we think he has a very bright future ahead of him!

[@EnglishFemale]

A spin off "Æthelstan" with Harry as the lead role would be excellent and im sure TLK fans will be hungry for it. Harry is such a nice talented young man . ❤

[@janetambery7124]

Loved that Harry rocked as King Aethelstan, what a fab young man, look forward to seeing what he does next 🗡🛡⚔️❤️

[@irishdawn8387]

Glad to see he was able to do this with ease and I can see him going a long way with his career

[@thescreenchronicles]

Totally agree! Excited to see where he goes!

[@sabine.npdavid]

So glad you guys were able to do this!! Harry did such a phenomenal job in SKMD! He took us through a whole gambit of emotions and did so with such ease.

[@SonGojit456]

Athelstan is a Figure that remained lost in the Annals of English History.

[@Lizzy1ES]

Harry is such a talented actor and still so young. His feelings were so touching as Athelstan and shone through at every stage. I really hope he gets offered some good opportunities at theatre companies like the RSC or some good film roles.

[@thescreenchronicles]

We think he has a very bright future ahead

[@luisec.5041]

Very great, that you got him on again. I will always love your interviews.

[@thescreenchronicles]

Thank you for the kind words! It was so much fun having him on again

[@jamila5909]

Do you guys plan other interviews with other actors ?

[@m.hayden5944]

Harry seems such a lovely person. Another great TLK interview

[@thescreenchronicles]

He is! Thank you!!

[@nnekaatto]

Just watched SKMD - I've never seen a single episode of TLK, but felt compelled to watch the movie - and I was just blown away by Harry's performance. What an incredibly talented young actor! I'm excited to see what he does next!

[@stacyhendrix6225]

This was fantastic. Thank you for getting this out to the fans. Harry did an amazing job with this character from the very beginning. It is all so bittersweet. I am not sure I will ever find a show that I get so invested in as I have TLK! You guys have made it even more so enjoyable with your talks and your interviews. Thanks again.

[@darcyks]

Fun interview! Harry did an amazing job in the movie & I look forward to his future acting❣️

[@thescreenchronicles]

He really did awesome and not an easy role to play in this film!

[@ligayahappyjoy3746]

Harry Gilby - King Aethelstan has a promising career near future, he has a good acting skill and when he delivers it, viewers can feel the message and his emotion while doing it.... I hope he will get a good lead role project

[@simonafrancesca9829]

Thank you so much for doing this interview, I love Harry, he is so humble and such a nice chap, I got to meet him last year at the Maiden Media Productions Con, he was so lovely to talk too. 😊❤

[@dizzylizzysunflower]

Harry has a great future ahead of him..great actor 🗡⚔️🪓

[@anahicadinanos5865]

Great interview as always! Harry was amazing in the movie and I’m excited to see what he does next!

[@sashavelez1969]

Really cool interview! Harry seems like such a nice young man, I wish him lots of success in his future. He truly was awesome in SKMD.

[@f379986]

Excellent acting by Harry! What’s missing from this packed, location-hopping story are many of the characters we knew and loved from the series. Uhtred’s there with brothers in arms Finan, Sihtric, Father Pyrlig and Aldhelm, but that’s our lot. Hild, Eadith, Uhtred’s daughter Stiorra, Aethelflaed’s daughter Aelfwynn and Queen Aelswith - all carefully preserved to survive the end of the TV show - are missing and their off-screen deaths go unmentioned. It feels abrupt and… callous? The Last Kingdom’s women were always central to it success. Not to give them an ending or barely a namecheck seems like a betrayal. It’s like holding a reunion but only sending out half the invitations. Action packed, though lacking in TLK’s emotion & connection.

[@traceywolf2154]

Great to see Harry come back for an interview so soon after the movies release. Have to say on your question of who does the best 'Shield Wall' call it has to be Sigtryggr in S4.

[@xh3075]

Great interview! I loved the last one and this was such a treat. You have great flow and always have thoughtful questions. Harry is such a phenomenal actor. He really breathed life into this character, his mannerisms, his speech, like how he was explaining about how to act out lines this way or that way. He's the reason why I got interested in this show. He did fantastic in the movie. I really liked that they went with him liking men because as he said, it really gives the character depth, and the struggle with his catholic guilt versus liking men was done very well. His relationship with Ingilmundr was also very layered too. Manipulation, especially from someone you love, can totally wreck a person and he had tall hat time with him to really reach into the cracks and settle himself there to influence Athelstan. I think he was even more vulnerable as it (most likely in the movie, but in the book I can't say as I haven't read it) was his first relationship and sexual experience. I agree too that a lot of it was Ingilmundr controlling him. The catholic guilt was such a pivotal part of the film, and it's something that LGBTQ+ do struggle with today of being raised religious and feeling that heavy guilt, I really could sympathize with him like that from my own experiences. I liked how Uhtred in the tent scene had said "I care not for that but for you" and in that moment Athelstan was very vulnerable, so Uhtred once again as a father figure reassuring him was really needed. Harry's facial expressions in that scene were too good. When he looks up after Uhtred says that, you can see his vulnerability and his childlike self appear. It's such a great story to end the series. Even though it was quite rushed, I enjoyed it nonetheless and I 100% agree it gets better the more you re-watch it. I wish the best for Harry.

[@ladyeer6464]

Great talk. Great movie. Great actors. Great crew. Keep them coming. Thank you for this 👍

[@lisaward2636]

Wow,Harry stood out. Damn what an amazing performance.

[@milli212]

Omg you got the king on!!! Whaaaat ❤️❤️❤️

[@thescreenchronicles]

He is the man!

[@danielaf1487]

What amazing charisma Harry infuses into Aethelstan in season 5 - he was leading character material! However, there was such an unexpected and drastic change in him in the movie, that I wondered whether there had not been enough time to detail the reasons for his changes. I'm sorry but I don't buy that it was just a matter of falling in love with the wrong person. In the case of Erik deciding to leave the life of warlord when he fell for Aethelflaed, we got so many little hints before the princess's kidnapping, that Erik was the "mellow" brother, that he disapproved of killing "just for fun", that he was not sadistic or blood-thirsty like Sigefrid, perhaps even too intelligent and "civilised" to be a Norse warlord all his life. So when Aethelflaed came along, we got the feeling she only made him realise what was within him all along - the potential to leave that violent, war-mongering life. On the other hand, in the case of Aethelstan we don't see what happens to him between the end of Season 5 and the the start of the movie. All we know is that he discovers love with a very ambitious and slippery Dane pretending to have embraced the Saxon way. Suddenly, he is simply no longer the Aethelstan we remember, but an uncharacteristically violent and ruthless version of him - just like that, and we're supposed to accept the tenuous reasons for which that happens. I get that Ingilmundr was using guilt to manipulate him, but the guilt was not actually tangible to me. Aethelstan didn't seem guilty, he just seemed far more cruel than he'd ever been. I think I would have accepted the changes in his character if the movie had explored them a little more, showed us more introspection and insight into his internal development and maybe fewer minutes of battle scenes. All in all it was a good movie and I enjoyed its visuals and atmosphere, which made up for a slightly rushed story.

[@carrieperkin3729]

Awesome interview. Will miss all of the actors and actions of seven Kings must die of the last Kingdom. Hoping for some kind of spinoff😢.

[@catherinegabbert4181]

A great actor and he was so amazing in the last kingdom and seven king's must die I had watched it three times already and I love it I can't wait to buy both movies on DVD

[@Friesian-q6u]

He is absolutely charming! Great interview everyone ♥️

[@PatriciaStreet-bj1wo]

Loved it over and over and over

[@christinarusso8303]

Heck yeah, he was PHENOMENAL 🥹❤ Aethelstan stan for life #brosquad #mykingofengland

[@taisrodriguesarh]

He's amazing and such a great actor⚔️🇧🇷

[@joannaphillips9877]

Love all the screen chronicles xxx and love Harry G xx

[@cindimams4394]

Good young actor.

[@thescreenchronicles]

Very good!

[@MTClassicMovieChannel]

I liked Harry’s call for the S. Wall.

[@Tomy_Yon]

Harry Gilby! ❤🤗 (okay, I love him in everything actually... Toby in Casualty, Just Charlie, Tolkien... 😊

[@thescreenchronicles]

Yes and we can't wait to see what he does in the future!

[@brontehamilton]

The topic keeps coming up of what you'll watch/review next... I think it makes so much sense to do Vikings. I know Vikings is old now, but I would still love to see your take on the show and characters and then you move into and keep up with Vikings Valhalla as those seasons continue to be released. And that show I believe will end in a similar way to TLK with the birth of England as we now know it with William The Conqueror coming in and ending the Viking age. Would love to see you guys review that show.

[@annabellemunoz9500]

Alexander Draymon interview please …

[@shaycase1834]

This is awesome!

[@annabellemunoz9500]

Regards from Ecuador. Thanks

[@thescreenchronicles]

Gracias por el apoyo!

[@honorisalive]

Great interview as always, love the insights from Harry! What happened to the extra in s5? (Also, loved the Fleabag plug)

[@marinaoosthuizen9697]

I loved Ethalstan. Very good actor. I love good father son relationship Uhtred and Ethalstan had

[@FamousDraco615]

Be scene to me with Harry was “I do the bidding of the lord”

[@denisevandermark5398]

1000% right. Better 2nd watch ❤❤❤

[@thescreenchronicles]

Even better the 3rd!

[@codyjarvis916]

Please dead GOD let there be a spin off xD

[@gabrielle.47533]

Yay🎉

[@js1423]

Awesome interview! Have you tried to reach out to Pekka Strang or Jaakko Ohtonen for a little talk?

[@cindimams4394]

What are we going to do after TLK? 😢I’m binging anything I can get lol.

[@thescreenchronicles]

Maybe The Winter King! The Bernard Cornwell King Arthur series

[@dashingandreas]

He is made for Daeron targaryen i swear

[@Letitgrow9823]

He is too cute 🤩😍

[@annacangiano5013]

Yes Number one because ALEX is an amazing man, there are not too many men as alluring in sooooo many ways as our beloved Uhtred, hot damnnn! lol Sending Love and Kisses xoxoxoxoxoxo

[@sislertx]

My favorite series right next to godfather...

[@maxlawson23]

Love Glib🥹

[@jilavudenisamaria1782]

❤❤❤

[@seannaa8052]

bring me my wine :D

[@thescreenchronicles]

Haha that crown gets to the ego!

[@brontehamilton]

Also, the viking era is always portrayed to make us feel sorry for the Anglo-Saxons having their country taken ofer. I would loooove to see Netflix or someone do a series portraying the Angles, Saxons and Jutes invading England after they hear the Romas have left and taking over from the Britons. And their whole transition from pagan to Christian, that would make for great watching! But also looking forward to a good King Arthur series 👌

[@teller1290]

Try the movie, "King Arthur," with Clive Owen and Keira K.

[@daisycamet]

Yes please #neflix we love more spin off of #thelastkingdom see more of #harrygilby as the king and more of #osferth take on the adulthood fighting the vikings and please more humour in it of #markrowley and #arnas #sithric ❤

[@luisec.5041]

Yes please, I want a Bromance spinoff with Sihtric, Finan, Osferth, Aethelstan and Uthred about their time together between season 4 and 5 when Aethelstan was growing up.

[@daisycamet]

@@luisec.5041 that as well. So please we want some more of their epic adventures also Uhtred very much alive !

[@kioskekagure4758]

Did you ask how he felt kissing a man in the movie?

[@patrickhennessy8022]

Wicked disappointed in how Aethelstan turned out (depicted in the movie) after being saved and raised up by Uhtred.

[@renferal5290]

In the book, Uhtred does not die

[@connick7361]

Yes, and l think the book ending much better!

[@renferal5290]

@@connick7361 I agree

[@giovisan7521]

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[@SonGojit456]

I am Hoping the Winter King Adaptation will be better.

[@giovisan7521]

So my fans Miriam tua fans

[@rachelwilson86]

Why did Aethelstan feel like Uhtred & Aldhelm betrayed him??

[@thescreenchronicles]

We think possibly because he did not want it to get out about his sexuality. He may have assumed Uhtred told Aldhelm about it after Uhtred confronted Aethelstan about it

[@rachelwilson86]

@@thescreenchronicles That's a ridiculous thought for Aethelstan to have...that only means that he was feeling guilty about it which he should if he was a true Christian. Any Christian would know homosexuality is a sin. I'm not saying that we are all perfect, but that was one of my hang-ups about him. I guess they just wrote that in there bc Aethelstan never married & had no children so they assumed he was homosexual.

[@southernlady5085]

@@rachelwilson86Totally agree. About to post some of the same sentiment. I hate how history is manipulated to meet woke expectations.

[@googlewinnie]

Why Laurie Metcalf? Its Laurie Davidson...

[@rachelwilson86]

To me, the movie felt rushed.

[@andrewfisher8428]

Yeah I wish they just made season 6, but they always planned to do 5 seasons so I guess they couldn’t make that happen

[@kendalltaylor2644]

Yes! They should’ve developed his relationship with Ingilmundr more.

[@connick7361]

Yes, it did seem rushed. They should have followed the book more.

[@viviansantos7783]

Yes

[@weilunkang]

Does he look like Timothee Chalamet, or what ?

[@thomasmain5986]

Must have been a proud man playing the first King of England, and gay (Apparently there was a rumour, just can't find who started it) as the icing on the cake, shame his character came accross as a bit of a idiot.

[@Theh0pe]

I hated him in the show

[@phoenixrose1192]

Why hate him in the show? 😲

[@Theh0pe]

@@phoenixrose1192 I hate rainbow

[@phoenixrose1192]

@@Theh0pe So you’re confusing the show with the film…

[@jeffhearin4320]

The movie was terrible. Another woke gay agenda. The story was terrible. I am so sad because the show was amazing and the movie was garbage.

[@teller1290]

A season 6 was the way to go, even without the random homosexual add-on. There was a lot that could've been done with the characters over a 10-12 episode run.