Pilou Asbaek on Why a ‘Very Important’ Euron Scene Wasn’t Shown on Screen 

The reason why I didn’t want to die [on screen] is because I thought it would be so much fun to tease [“Game of Thrones” creators Dan “D.B.” Weiss and David Benioff], because of course they wrote the scene as if he would die. So did [episode director Miguel Sapochnik], he wanted to direct it as if he would die. But I didn’t want to do that, because you know sometimes you gotta take a piss at the showrunners. And I was like, “What if I don’t die? What if I just smile and look off?” And they were like, “Yeah, that’s nice.”

D&D, director: Die.
PIlou: lol no

He refused to die. He link stuff from set. Pilou Asbaek, whose casting I ridiculed because no way could this adorable little Danish dude ever be terrifying and insane enough for Euron, turned out to be the most Greyjoy of them all. XD