Bran’s Stare Is So Creepy Because He Isn’t Wearing His Glasses

While everyone on Game of Thrones has been having their awkward little reunions in Winterfell recently, Bran Stark has been making everything all the more awkward by peering at them all from a distance and giving them a meme-ready hard stare. As Isaac Hempstead Wright explained on Kimmel, however, that’s not acting, it’s just not having 20/20 vision. “I’m completely blind when I’m on set,� he explained, because he doesn’t have his glasses on hand and isn’t wearing contacts either. But still, the method works! He noted that Sophie Turner once told him, “It’s like you’re staring into my soul,� and he had to admit, “I can’t see you.�