Two Stars Leaving Game Of Thrones

[Mountain Man]

Hodor and Bran Stark...

Two familiar faces will be absent when "Game of Thrones" returns for its fifth season.
Kristian Nairn and Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who play Hodor and Bran Stark respectively, are taking a year-long hiatus from the HBO drama, Nairn told Yahoo News in Australia.
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"We have a season off and we have a year's hiatus, solely because I imagine our storyline is up to the end of the books," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ntcmp=features

[Shoeless]

Title's kinda misleading...

They're not actually leaving the show, just sitting out the season. It's to give Martin's books a chance to catch up a little, which won't ever happen.

[Mountain Man]

Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on what direction the show goes in based on whatever Martin decides to do, if he ever does finish the series...which I'm beginning to doubt.

they are, after all, relatively minor characters in the overall scheme of things, although I like Hodor.

[Shoeless]

...Bran is one of the main characters.