Cast as Hodor
Nairn confirms he is cast for the part of Hodor on the upcoming season of Game of Thrones.
@RyanCordes . Hey man. Not sure what I'm supposed to say or when and where ! But if I said "Hodor!?" … It might tell u something 😉
— Kristian Nairn (@KristianNairn) June 23, 2010
Kremlin DJ residency
0 CommentsNairn spins at Belfast gay club Kremlin in a 12-year residency. After studying DJing at music school, he starts out working at Kremlin and fills in for a DJ who calls in sick, carrying his CDs to the club in a toolbox. He currently guests on Saturdays and Sundays in the club’s Red Square room when his Game of Thrones filming schedule allows.
I’m very much a house purist. Everyone’s all about deep house these days, but I’ve loved deep house for 15 years. House is a very big, broad [classification] – from EDM, progressive house, right down to broken beats, really commercial stuff. I don’t see why you can’t play a bit of everything in your set. My sets very much pan across house, but they very much work together – it’ll go from piano house to EDM, to deep house, to everything, really.
Gay identity
0 CommentsNairn’s mother is aware of his gay identity from a young age:
When I was 13 my mum knew that I was gay and she just always knew. I used to play Wonder Woman with her when I was a kid and I was always Wonder Woman. I always stopped short of the outfit, thank God.
Kristian Nairn born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Kristian Nairn is born at Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He is raised an only child by his mother Patricia. He spends most of his childhood growing up on a farm near Lisburn. He has childhood hearing difficulties:
I was partially deaf when I was a child, and often in school, before I was fixed, I had to read context and emotions from people’s faces and body language.
Growing up during the Irish Troubles helps him develop humor:
It doesn’t shock me, I grew up in Northern Ireland, Belfast…I’ve seen some really shocking things in my life. There was a college in the middle of Belfast and every week, every week, there’d be an evacuation with a bomb, or else it would actually go off, and it’d just be a matter of fact that you’d be blown out of your desk or you’d be lying on the floor…You sort of grew up hearing of people being maimed and that sort of thing…It’s pretty dark, it’s pretty dark to grow up with…I think that’s why people from Ireland have a really good sense of humor, I think we’re resilient and that’s why I’ll always call it home.
He loves glam and thrash metal as a teenager and plays the guitar:
I studied players like Yngwie Malmsteen, Ty Tabor, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Jake E. Lee, so much, that I could pretty much play on a level with them at one stage, but sadly, at that point, no one really was interested in hearing that from a guitarist anymore.