In the beginning Littlefinger was more inscrutable but he’s since become a more transparently villainous character. Which was more fun to play?

Even with the obvious villainy, you’re always trying to at least make it likable and for there to be some fun to it. Sometimes it’s just a matter of screen time. If you still have a lot of story to tell in a certain amount of episodes, sometimes you’ve got to get straight to plot detail. It might seem a bit more black-and-white or, in my case, villainous. There’s so much story going on at the moment. You’re living in the shadow of dragons.

— Aidan Gillen interview in the New York Times, August 14, 2017