Game of Thrones Star on Deleted Season 7 Scene

"I need your help."

By Alex Osborn

Full spoilers for Game of Thrones continue below. For our thoughts on the Season 7 finale, read IGN's "The Dragon and the Wolf" review.

Petyr Baelish finally paid for his wrongdoings in the record-breaking Season 7 finale of Game of Thrones, and according to Bran actor Isaac Hempstead-Wright, a scene between his character and Sansa that sheds some additional light on Littlefinger's downfall was left on the cutting room floor.

"There was a scene that we ended up getting rid of, I’m not sure why, where Sansa came to Bran’s chambers and said 'I need your help,'" Hempstead-Wright told IGN. "The way I understand it, Bran didn't know what was going on."

According to the actor, Bran stayed out of the conflict between the two Stark girls until Sansa approached him about the situation. "It was a battle between Sansa and Arya really, and it wasn't any of Bran's business until Sansa thought 'why don't I fact check this with the best fact checker in the universe' and Bran was like 'Littlefinger did this and this and this,'" he explained.

Thanks to Bran's gift of omniscience, Hempstead-Wright believes Bran ultimately knew that she would approach him and wouldn't have allowed his sisters to turn on each other. "Because Bran has a real idea of destinies, I think he was waiting for his sister to come to him to give her the knowledge," he said. "I don't think he would have let that happen and he wouldn’t have sat there while Arya got killed by Sansa, because Bran would have known that wasn’t the way things had to go. He would have known 'I need to be here to reveal what the truth is.'"

While Hempstead-Wright isn't entirely sure where the scene would have fit within Season 7, he believes it would have appeared somewhere in the finale. "It was going to be in the finale—I don’t know actually. I have no idea when that scene was. I think it would have been the last episode," he said.

Stay tuned for our full interview with Hempstead-Wright, which will go live tomorrow. In the meantime, find out what Davos Seaworth actor Liam Cunningham shared with us about what lies ahead for Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.

Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @alexcosborn.

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