Iain Glen says Jorah’s “end may well be close” on Game of Thrones 

Game Of Thrones\' Iain Glen back as Irish detective Jack Taylor

Scottish actor Iain Glen returns as Irish detective Jack Taylor.

exiled knight Ser Jorah Mormont while also starring in a series of

telemovies about Irish private investigator Jack Taylor, a fictional detective created by award-winning Irish author Ken Bruen.

"If you want to get yourself into a neurotic corner, there\'s lots of reasons why you wouldn\'t want to take on (such) a role but you just have to be brave and do it," Glen says from Sydney, where he is filming season two of the Australian fantasy series

"I\'m absolutely sure I\'m not right in some people\'s minds but I\'m right enough in others."

Iain Glen, Jack Monaghan and Siobhan O'Kelly in Jack Taylor.

He acknowledges he might not always bear much physical resemblance to the character described by an author and puts this down to TV writers wanting to make a character appealing to viewers.

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This was particularly true of Jorah, who has sustained an unrequited love for Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) through several series of

"I don\'t think I bear any physical resemblance whatsoever to the character that George R R Martin described in the books on which the series is based. I think he was a very dark-haired, wiry man with an ugly face – I\'m not saying I don\'t have an ugly face – and I think quite short and stocky," he says. "But they probably thought it would be good if you could see why (Jorah and Daenerys) might get it together. If you had an ugly stump of a man who had no chance whatsoever and was fairly repellent then it would be harder for them to tell that story."

However, when it comes to Jack Taylor, Glen really has become the face of the detective with his image now appearing on the covers of Bruen\'s novels.

Set in Galway, the series follows the disgraced cop-turned-private detective as he investigates those cases that other people, including the police, won\'t investigate.

Asking Glen which is his favourite character of the two is, it seems, like asking a mother to pick her favourite child.

"I\'ve always enjoyed playing Jorah. It\'s been a role that\'s been good to me so far," he says.

and they don\'t blanch at removing favourite characters. They just get rid of them in a brutal way. My end may well be close but so far I\'m doing OK."

"He\'s a very complex soul, Jack. This man has a big self-destruct button. He struggles with alcoholism, he\'s a big womaniser and he gets himself in all sorts of messes," Glen says.

"But he has a very moral core to him and he\'s a much braver man than I would ever be and he puts himself on the line in a way that most people don\'t, fighting for causes that no one else wants to take on. He\'s in some ways a very messed-up moral man and I like that a lot."

Bringing the troubled detective to life on screen has also helped the actor realise a lifelong ambition.

"I\'ve always quite fancied playing a private eye and I think that\'s really from admiring

with Jack Nicholson way back then," he says, with a nod to the 1974 Roman Polanski movie which also starred Faye Dunaway.

"And it\'s what I enjoy reading. I really enjoy reading crime. I enjoy the structure of it. I probably read more crime – and watch more crime probably – than anything else."

He sees nothing ironic in a Scotsman playing an Irishman investigating crimes, most of which could never happen anywhere other than the Emerald Isle.

"We\'re both Celtics, the Scots and the Irish. We\'re cousins really and I\'ve probably done more work as an Irishman than as a Scotsman, curiously. I\'ve no idea why," he says.

"Maybe they\'re just forgiving and sweet natured but they\'ll call out to me in the street when I wander past saying, \'Hey, Jack, have you solved it yet? Have you solved the crime?\' "

Jack Taylor, Vibe, returns Tuesday April 4.

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