In fall 2017, a short time before the Game of Thrones cast was scheduled to sit down in Belfast for their Season 8 table read, they received their scripts via email. Daniel Portman, who plays GoT's most loyal squire, Podrick Payne, happened to be in a taxi, on his way to a training session at the gym, when those pages hit his inbox. The cast had been waiting a while to get them, with the scripts arriving fairly close to the date of the table read. According to various accounts, most of the actors began reading wherever they were – …