- "Game of Thrones" actor and Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus "Thor" Björnsson is KFC's newest Colonel Sanders.
- Björnsson stars as Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane on HBO's hit series.
- Now he's advertising KFC's Double Crispy Colonel Sandwich in a new commercial.
- The ad is a play on Björnsson's accomplishments in strongman competitions.
- The fake sports segment shows him as a Colonel who has to pull a giant box of chicken sandwiches to break a world record.
- In real life, Björnsson was just crowned as the literal strongest man in the world.
- Watch the new KFC commercial below to seeBjörnsson as the Colonel:
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