“”Games of Thrones” star Jack Gleeson never expected the fame that would come once he landed the role on the hit HBO series. In actuality, he considers celebrity culture to be a “cannibalistic” and dehumanizing industry.

Gleeson, otherwise known as the hated King Joffrey, appeared before the Oxford Union back in November for a discussion on this very issue. A 30-minute YouTube video of his speech was uploaded Wednesday, Jan. 15, by Oxford Union and quickly went viral after being shared on Reddit, where Redditors lauded Gleeson for examining his own celebrity in both a self-deprecating and thoroughly analytical way.

The 21-year-old, from Cork, Ireland, said it was naive of him to not realize what the future held once he signed onto the award-winning HBO project, which premiered in 2011. Suddenly, people were taking his photo and asking about his sock brand.”* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz breaks it down.

*Read more here from Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/jack-gleeson-celebrity-culture_n_4610684.html

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