FACT#77:
The Mountain actor wins Europe's Strongest Man competition
BY WIC STAFF ON AUGUST 19, 2014
The Mountain may be one of the strongest characters in Game of Thrones but the actor who plays him can now share a similar title in reality.
Hafthor Bjornsson, who plays The Mountain on Game of Thrones, was recently crowned the strongest man in Europe and did so in a fashion that the character he place would be proud of. Rather than be humble about being the strongest man in Europe, Bjornsson became a legend not when he completed the Atlas stones but when he ripped his shirt open and screamed out that he was the King of Stones and the "future of strength".
Europe's Strongest Man 2014 - The Mountain (Hafþór Julius Bjornsson) highlights
What the victory means is that Bjornsson is now qualified for the World's Strongest Man competition which would be amazing if he won. Don't take his adrenaline fueled outburst after the Atlas stones as a sign that Bjornsson is anything but humble. He's a strongman competitor who happened to get lucky and find the role of a lifetime, a role that only he can seemingly fill, on Game of Thrones.
You still might not want to cross him though as both The Mountain and the actor who plays him have eye-popping talents that make them terrifying human beings to behold.
