Well, at least he’s self-aware.
The highly polarized reaction to Ed Sheeran‘s “Game of Thrones” cameo this past season made him realize it shouldn’t be more than a one-time thing.
“No one wants to see me come back,” the musician, 26, told MTV News. “I wanted to be a cameo in it, and I’ve done the cameo.”
“I’m cool with it, though,” he added. “I enjoyed it.”
The “Castle on the Hill” crooner also doesn’t think his character, a Lannister soldier, survived the loot train attack, in which Emilia Clarke’s character Daenerys Targaryen unleashed her dragon Drogon on the Lannister army.
“We were all quite young, those soldiers,” Sheeran said. “I doubt I’m going to survive for that long, to be honest, when there are dragons in the world.”
Shortly after his maligned appearance on the megahit HBO series, Sheeran disappeared from Twitter. There was speculation he deactivated his account because of the backlash, but he denied that influenced his decision to leave social media.
“Last I’ll say on this,” he wrote at the time. “I came off Twitter Coz [sic] I was always intending to come off Twitter, had nothing to do with what people said about my game of thrones cameo, because I am in game of thrones, why the hell would I worry what people thought about that. It’s clearly f—-g’ awesome. Timing was just a coincidence, but believe what you want.”