Game of Thrones star Jack Gleeson has said that while he has received a lot of offers from Hollywood since his exit as King Joffrey from the hit HBO show, his focus remains the theatre troupe he established with his friends from Trinity College, Collapsing Horse Theatre Company.
With Collapsing Horse's acclaimed, surreal sci-fi comedy Bears in Space coming to the London stage next month, Gleeson told the city's Evening Standard newspaper: "The offers came in, but I just had a lack of desire to do a big action movie. What I enjoy most is this kind of thing, where I can have fun with my friends."
The Cork actor said the thing that inspires him most is "creating something from the ground up".
"I never say never to anything, but for the time being I get far more fulfilment from being part of a project that I have helped create and have more of a stake in," he said.
Gleeson insisted he never said he was retiring from acting following Game of Thrones, and that he considers Bears in Space to be a "fun project with friends" rather than an acting job per se.
The show, which uses puppets and explores the relationship between two bears who have awoken from cryogenic sleep, runs at the Soho Theatre in London from August 3 to 22.
