Anderson Cooper asked the actors of "Game of Thrones" how the series ended. This is how they responded

Just before the last Game of Thrones season is about to be aired, Anderson's "60 Minutes" reporter was still busy trying to figure out what's really going on at the end of the show. .

No warning spoiler need here: Cooper did not have many answers about how producers David Beioff and DB Weiss concluded his epic film series for HBO.

Cooper's quest for answers – aired Sunday night on CBS with other clips posted online – takes him from Los Angeles to interview producers and travel to Belfast, Northern Ireland, for a tour of Castle Black together with Kit Harington, who plays one of the numbered surviving characters in the series, Jon Snow.

Cooper even sits with George RR Martin, the author of the books on which the series is based.

Martin originally planned to finish his series before the show, but he missed several deadlines, said Cooper. That meant that at the end of last season, the series eclipsed the books, leaving the fans – even the most ferocious ones who read all the books – in the dark.

"It was a blow when the series caught up," Martin told Cooper in a clip that aired online. "I did not think it would happen."

In the interview with Cooper, Martin did not even seem to know exactly how the show would end.

While preparing for the final season, Martin spent several days explaining the script. -arching themes for the last two books for showrunners.

The series was "extremely faithful" to the books, Martin said. Even so, it was not possible to get all the details.

"I do not think the end of Dan and Dave will be as different from mine because of the conversations we had, but they may be

Martin says he's fine if the fans end up preferring the end of the series rather than the final conclusion of the book, or vice versa.

In the end, he says, "The worst thing for any work of art, whether it's a movie or a book, must to be ignored. "

" Game of Thrones "has certainly been far from ignored and the actors have been constantly looking for details about the last season.

John Bradley, who plays Samwell Tarly, hinted at Cooper in an online clip that fans might not be thrilled to end.

"We've never given people what they thought they wanted because we know people really like to be challenged and they do not like to be spoon-fed, "said Bradley, noting the famous" Red Wedding "where several characters were killed.

But Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister, gave another hint about at least the tone of the end.

"This really makes you wonder," he added, adding, "and not in any way any way – in a beautiful way.

The show became infamous for its graphic depiction of violence – especially against women. However, Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne from Tarth, told Cooper that the public can learn a lot about violence.

"This story is vaguely based on the war of roses," Christie said. "And I would say, learn. Learn that this is what has happened in history and that it is not what should happen in the future. "

But when the final credits were released, where do endless props, costumes and dummy bodies end? It turns out that, for the moment at least, most of these objects ended up in a warehouse in Belfast

Harington showed Cooper the warehouse, telling him everything from Bran Stark's chair to the head of his father.

on the right, Ned Stark's head is kept in a plastic storage container.

In the "60 Minutes" segment, Cooper leaned to look like a white walker (with his piercing blue eyes and white hair, a white head), and was transformed into one of the mythical beings after undergoing a process four hours involving prostheses and heavy suits.

Even with all this, he still needs a CGI luster added in post-production to get that iconic white stroller look. 19659030] Maddie Kilgannon can be contacted at [email protected].