There was no way last night’s Red Nose Day — the annual campaign that raises millions to help children around the world — could top last year’s “Game of Thrones: The Musical.” It’s the reason you can never fully hate Coldplay. “Yeah, their songs are whiny, and Chris Martin named his daughter Apple, but Game of Thrones: The Musical was pretty great.” So, instead of going full-blown Thrones again, Red Nose Day 2016 only invited everyone’s favorite character to take part in the fundraising: Ramsay Bolton!
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
Thankfully, actor Iwan Rheon doesn’t defend Ramsay; he knows the Warden of the North is a “complete scumbag” who deserves an “epically nasty” death, “preferably dragon-related.” But Rheon also wants you to know that he’s a nice person in real life. So, naturally, he performed a heartfelt ballad about it, with fellow misunderstood “good guys who regularly play bad guys” Danny Trejo and Steve Buscemi. “People think I’m scary,” Rheon and Trejo sang while planting flowers and trying to make friends, “but I’m gentle as a baby duck / I’m not really mean / I just happen to look that way / Why can’t I be a part of Red Nose Day?” Later, Buscemi added, “I sometimes act the guy who kills people and robs banks / But in real life I’m actually nicer than Tom Hanks.”
It’s a fun idea for a sketch, but yeah, I’m still not ready to forgive Ramsay for, well, pretty much everything he’s ever done. I never will be.
