Sean Bean is only now learning how “Game of Thrones” ends, despite the fact that the show ended two years ago.

In 2011, the actor played Eddard ‘Ned’ Stark in the HBO drama series Game of Thrones. The execution of Stark and the discovery of Cersei Lannister’s children’s illegitimacy threw the entire series into disarray, and it was the spark for the War of the Five Kings.

With the actor confessing to The Times of London that he hasn’t kept up with the series over the years, he wasn’t concerned about being spoiled, as he also stated that if he did eventually catch up with what happened in Westeros, he would probably forget information about the conclusion. He was, understandably, happy with the events that transpired in Winterfell.

When asked if he had watched the final episode of the program, Bean said, “No. What happened?” Journalist Ed Potton seemed hesitant to respond, implying that Bean might want to view it later. “I’ll have forgotten by then,” he replied. “Go on.”

The interviewer highlighted how the series ended with Ned’s son, Bran, being named King of Westeros and his daughter, Sansa, being crowned Queen of the North in the piece.

“So did Winterfell stay separate?” Bean inquired. “Oh, good for them.”

While Bean is enthusiastic about the characters he portrays, he is less enthusiastic about the franchise world-building that comes with roles like Ned Stark in “Game of Thrones” and Boromir in “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” Bean did tell The New York Times that Ned was simpler to work with as an actor than Boromir, if only because the former didn’t demand him to know all there was to know about Tolkien.

When Bean compared Ned to Boromir, he responded, “Yeah, it was a much earthier role. Also, we established that we would work on an accent that was similar to mine [for Ned]. So that also gave it that extra weight.”

Bean spoke on the horrible killing and what was going through his mind as an actor in the sequence earlier this year.

“It was horror and disbelief — that Joffrey changed his mind [about exiling Ned] — and then resignation and [realizing that he was] seeing his daughter for the last time, Arya,” Bean told Entertainment Weekly. “I was trying to think of all four [things]. It wasn’t just, ‘Oh God, I’m getting my head chopped off.’ Those mix of feelings is what made it what it was, I suppose.”

He also mentioned that rehearsing for the gruesome sequence was nearly as unnerving as watching it.

“It took like a whole day or so to film it and you so you have to just keep focused on the fact that you’re about to meet your death without messing around,” Bean said. “I was very hot at the time, so that probably helped. And everybody else’s reactions were fantastic — Cersei and the kids. It was very moving with a lot of pathos in that scene. Then I put my head in the block and I was finished for the day.”

A number of prequels to the Game of Thrones series are in the works; House of the Dragon is now in development, and 10,000 Ships has just been announced.