`Game of Thrones` season 5 won't feature Bran Stark, Hodor

Washington: Game of Thrones' famous characters Bran Stark and Hodor won't appear in the fifth season of the HBO series.

Kristian Nairn, who plays the role of Hodor in the hit series, told ABC News that he and Isaac Hempstead who plays Strak had a season off and now they had a year's hiatus, because the storyline was up to the end of the books.

Nairn said that now, he got his year off to do Rave Of Thrones (his DJ show) and to travel all over the world.