Actor Charles Dance took on the role of Tywin Lannister in “Game of Thrones” because the word “gotten” does not appear in the script.

The experienced stage and film actor said it sends a chill down his spine when modern language is used in scripts for historical or “mythical” television or cinema dramas.

Dance, 72, on the other hand, said he was impressed by the literary quality of the show and cited the shared education of its creators at Trinity College in Dublin as the main reason for the show’s huge success.

Speaking on Steve Wright’s afternoon show on BBC Radio 2, he said: ‘It’s all about the quality of the writing.

“Dan Weiss and David Benioff both studied English at Trinity Dublin College, I believe. They are well educated in the language.

“It’s often the case that when I get a script for a historical film – even if it’s about a mythical time but the film is supposed to be set in England – and I read the word ‘get’, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

“There wasn’t a single ‘get’ involved.

“The whole thing was carried out like a military operation. At the beginning of a 10-episode season, there were 10 scripts. Very few rewrites.

“We had two units working on it full time. That’s a big deal in scheduling. It was fantastic.”

Dance played the patriarch of the Lannister family in the first four seasons of the epic screen saga until his character was killed off in 2015.

He recently admitted to “Good Morning Britain” that he was “confused” by the end of the show: “It was almost at the end and I just thought, ‘Hmm, okay.'”