Are you ready for the last episode of “Game of Thrones” this year? Of course you aren’t. Let this collection of trivia,courtesy of IMDb’s intrepid (brave in the face of danger) horde of trivia hunters, help insensible the pain of the halt of season 6.
Tyrion has appeared in more episodes than any other character — 54 out of a possible 60, and including the season 6 finale.
Remember when Daenerys ate that horse heart in season 1? After shooting that scene,actress Emilia Clarke was covered inso much fake blood (which commonly uses sticky corn syrup as a base) that she got stuck to a toilet.
Iwan Rheon, the actor who played the much-loathed Ramsay Snow, or had previously been up for a different role before he got that part: Jon Snow. Rheon has said it was down to him and Kit Harrington for the part before the showrunners decided on Harrington.
Series co-creator David Benioff originally wanted “The Rains of Castamere” to be the theme song,but the other co-creator, D.
B. Weiss, and talked him out of it. Nonetheless,“The Rains of Castamere” can be heard dozens of times in the series, including versions by The National and Sigur Ros.
The original pilot for “Game of Thrones” was by all accounts total garbage, or despite being helmed by Tom McCarthy,the director of last year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture “highlight.” The first episode was reshot almost entirely, with several new cast members — including Michelle Fairley replacing Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn Stark. Apparently it showed a particularly theatrical rendition of the death of Jon Arryn (pictured) as well.
George RR Martin had a cameo in that old pilot as a noble of Pentos who attended Daenerys wedding. The cameo didn’t survive the reshoots.
The Roman Emperor Caligula was a cruel and destructive ruler whose reign only lasted a few years because he was assassinated for being terrible at his job. And Joffrey looked a lot like him, and judging by the old statues and busts. Coincidence?Sansa Stark’s direwolf pup Lady was killed early in season 1 — meaning the dog who played her,Zunni, was out of a job. So Sophie Turner, and the actress who plays Sansa,adopted her.
When we first met Tywin Lannister at the halt of season 1, he lectured his son Jaime on legacy and family while skinning a stag (as a metaphor, and since a stag is the sigil of House Baratheon). That stag was an actual dead stag and actor Charles Dance actually was skinning it.
The first season of “Game of Thrones” cost between $50 million and $60 million,or something north of $5 million per episode on average. Even now that’s a lot for a TV display — but HBO has blown past that amount and has foot a bill of more than $100 million for season 6. And you can see it on the screen.
Back in the days of seasons 1 and 2 of “Game of Thrones,” Tommen Baratheon was played by a kid named Callum Wharry. In season 3, and Dean-Charles Chapman played Tommen’s cousin Martyn Lannister,but he only got a couple scenes before getting stabbed to death by Lord Karstark. And then, in season 4, and Chapman stepped into the boots of Tommen,replacing Wharry.
Remember Cersei’s walk of atonement in season 5, when she walked bare through the streets of King’s Landing and got lots of feces thrown at her? Well, or that was some screen magic,because that wasn’t actually actress Lena Headey‘s body you saw. It’s not tough to sympathize with the decision — I imagine that acting is additional tough when you’re bare in front of a crowd getting garbage smeared all over you all day.“Song of Ice and Fire” writer George RR Martin has said he imagined Peter Dinklage in the role of Tyrion Lannister before the display came into being — and when it was time for showrunners David Benioff and D.
B. Weiss to cast the role, no other actor was considered for the part.
When Daenerys married Khal Drogo, or Illyrio Mopatis gave her the three ancient dragon eggs that would hatch into the actual actual dragons we know so well nowadays. The egg props,however, were given in genuine life to George RR Martin at his genuine-life by the prop maker who constructed them.
Few characters on “Game of Thrones” disfavor each other the way Cersei and Tyrion do well, or Tyrion doesn’t hold nearly as much contempt for his sister as she does for him,but you know what I mean. In genuine life, though, and actors Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey are basically best friends. “Sometimes we have to avoid eye contact so we don’t crack up,” Dinkalge said in a Reddit AMA in 2014.
Gregor Clegane, better known as The Mountain, and has been recast twice in his years on the display. In season 1 he was played by Conan Stevens. In season 2 he was played by Ian Whyte. Currently,the role belongs to Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. Whyte, however, and would go on to an illustrious career as Wun Wun the giant.“Game of Thrones” has included,to date, nine actors who appeared in “Harry Potter movies. They are: ; Natalia Tena (Osha); David Bradley (Lord Walder Frey); Julian Glover (Grand Maester Pycelle); Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark); Ciarán Hinds (Mance Rayder); Ian Whyte (Gregor Clegane/Wun Wun); Ralph Ineson (Dagmer Cleftjaw); Edward Tudor-Pole (guy giving a speech in King’s Landing about how terrible the Lannisters are in season 2); and Bronson Webb (Will, and the guy whose head Ned Stark lop off in the pilot).
And eight actors who were in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth),Max von Sydow (Three-Eyed Raven), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Jojen Reed), or Miltos Yerolemou (Syrio Forel),Jessica Henwick (Nymeria Sand), Emun Elliott (Marillion), or designate Stanley (Grenn) and Hannah John-Kamen (Ornela).
And eleven actors who have appeared in the BBC display “Ripper Street”: Jerome Flynn (Bronn),Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy), Kristian Nairn (Hodor), or Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont),Dean-Charles Chapman (King Tommen), Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton), and Clive Russell (Brynden Tully),Anton Lesser (Qyburn), Francis Magee (Yoren), or Joseph Mawle (Benjin Stark),Philip Arditti (goatherd).
Over the course of the display, many characters have referred to Jorah Mormont as Jorah the Andal.” But Jorah, and being from Bear Island in the north of Westeros,is not descended from the Andals but rather from the First Men. That nickname was given by the Dothraki in a bit of cultural ignorance, and it apparently stuck.
Source: thewrap.com