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| Game of Thrones announces new season five cast members | Game of Thrones announces new season five cast members |
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| Game of Thrones revealed its season five cast members at San Diego Comic Con Friday, during a panel discussion in front of an audience of over 6,000 people, many of whom had camped overnight to attend. | Game of Thrones revealed its season five cast members at San Diego Comic Con Friday, during a panel discussion in front of an audience of over 6,000 people, many of whom had camped overnight to attend. |
| Panelists included all the major Game of Thrones cast members, including John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Natelie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Rory McCann (The Hound), Gwedoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister) and Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell). Show creators DB Weiss and David Benioff and author George RR Martin were also present, and announced nine new actors joining the cast for season five: | |
| In addition to the casting developments, the Comic Con audience was treated to a Game of Thrones blooper reel and an hour-long audience Q&A. Here are some of the highlights from the discussion: | In addition to the casting developments, the Comic Con audience was treated to a Game of Thrones blooper reel and an hour-long audience Q&A. Here are some of the highlights from the discussion: |
| Where will this season be shot? Do you ever get turned down for locations because of the content of the show? | Where will this season be shot? Do you ever get turned down for locations because of the content of the show? |
| DB Weiss: This year it's going to be Croatia and Spain. in the past we've shot in Malta and Morocco. We sometimes lose locations. We lost a location this year because the owner didn't want "Porn of Thrones" to be filmed there. | DB Weiss: This year it's going to be Croatia and Spain. in the past we've shot in Malta and Morocco. We sometimes lose locations. We lost a location this year because the owner didn't want "Porn of Thrones" to be filmed there. |
| Do you ever worry when you receive the scripts that your character might be killed? | Do you ever worry when you receive the scripts that your character might be killed? |
| Maisie Williams: Some of us know what happens to characters in the books, but David and Dan have been known to kill off characters so I just learn to suck up them and George. | Maisie Williams: Some of us know what happens to characters in the books, but David and Dan have been known to kill off characters so I just learn to suck up them and George. |
| George RR Martin: The key lesson is to never ask for a raise. | George RR Martin: The key lesson is to never ask for a raise. |
| As the creator of this universe, are there any gods or deities you associate yourself with? Perhaps a god of death, considering the way you kill characters with impunity? | As the creator of this universe, are there any gods or deities you associate yourself with? Perhaps a god of death, considering the way you kill characters with impunity? |
| George RR Martin: I have plenty of punity. My reputation for killing is exaggerated – Davie and Dan are bloodier than I am, so I may only be the second-ranked murderer here on the panel. Religion is an important part of the world and should be depicted, but I won't endorse one over the other. I wouldn't choose one particular god. | George RR Martin: I have plenty of punity. My reputation for killing is exaggerated – Davie and Dan are bloodier than I am, so I may only be the second-ranked murderer here on the panel. Religion is an important part of the world and should be depicted, but I won't endorse one over the other. I wouldn't choose one particular god. |
| How do you prepare for your roles on the wall and other scenes in the North, where it's so cold? | How do you prepare for your roles on the wall and other scenes in the North, where it's so cold? |
| Kit Harington: It's weird – a lot of the work is done for you before you get there and a big part of that for me is costume. We have such wonderful costume on the show, so I find when I put it on, it has an inherent gravity. It's very grounding – that's how I fall into Jon Snow … That and many, many hair products. | |
| Rose Leslie: We were in the northern part of Iceland for the majority of seasons two and three and it was absolutely freezing. We had these thermals underneath the costume, which helped, and John [Bradley] had his big fat cloak on. it was beautiful, mesmerising being in Iceland. The cold kind of wakes you up. | Rose Leslie: We were in the northern part of Iceland for the majority of seasons two and three and it was absolutely freezing. We had these thermals underneath the costume, which helped, and John [Bradley] had his big fat cloak on. it was beautiful, mesmerising being in Iceland. The cold kind of wakes you up. |
| John Bradley: Yeah, what I like is that when the characters are that cold, we'll be that cold. In Iceland, I thought we were walking on ground but it was five feet of compacted snow. If you take the weight of my costume, then look at me, chances are by end of the day I'll be ground into the ground like a tent peg. As an actor, your tool – pardon the expression – your face is your tool. You find yourself compromised because your face is freezing up in minus 35, and you think, if I'm ever this cold again, something is very wrong. | John Bradley: Yeah, what I like is that when the characters are that cold, we'll be that cold. In Iceland, I thought we were walking on ground but it was five feet of compacted snow. If you take the weight of my costume, then look at me, chances are by end of the day I'll be ground into the ground like a tent peg. As an actor, your tool – pardon the expression – your face is your tool. You find yourself compromised because your face is freezing up in minus 35, and you think, if I'm ever this cold again, something is very wrong. |
| Can you describe how you prepare for the big battle scenes? | Can you describe how you prepare for the big battle scenes? |
| Pedro Pascal: HBO set me up with a master of wushu very early, A guy called Mr Hu in Los Angeles, and then in Belfast I did incredible training with CC [Smiff, head of GoT's stunt team]. | Pedro Pascal: HBO set me up with a master of wushu very early, A guy called Mr Hu in Los Angeles, and then in Belfast I did incredible training with CC [Smiff, head of GoT's stunt team]. |
| How about you, Gwendoline? Have you always been 'swordy'? | How about you, Gwendoline? Have you always been 'swordy'? |
| Gwendoline Christie: Yeah, I've always just been really swordy, I got into it when I was about three years old, and then this part came along and it made sense … No, the truth is, we work with a really great team, who have an incredible sense of humour, even when it's hard because I'm a bit slow. | Gwendoline Christie: Yeah, I've always just been really swordy, I got into it when I was about three years old, and then this part came along and it made sense … No, the truth is, we work with a really great team, who have an incredible sense of humour, even when it's hard because I'm a bit slow. |
| Where do you get your inspiration for the characters? | Where do you get your inspiration for the characters? |
| George RR Martin: When I'm writing from the viewpoint of the characters, I draw on myself. To make a character come alive, you have to look inside yourself. I am large – I can have multitude and a lot of characters can be pulled from one. I've never been an exiled princess or a dwarf or an eight-year-old boy, but we share a humanity. A lot of the plots are stolen from Scottish history, which is a particularly bloody history; events like the Black Dinner and the Glencoe massacre, which we borrrowed for the Red Wedding. | George RR Martin: When I'm writing from the viewpoint of the characters, I draw on myself. To make a character come alive, you have to look inside yourself. I am large – I can have multitude and a lot of characters can be pulled from one. I've never been an exiled princess or a dwarf or an eight-year-old boy, but we share a humanity. A lot of the plots are stolen from Scottish history, which is a particularly bloody history; events like the Black Dinner and the Glencoe massacre, which we borrrowed for the Red Wedding. |
| Kit and Rose, what do you think was going on in the heads of your characters when they saw each other again? | Kit and Rose, what do you think was going on in the heads of your characters when they saw each other again? |
| Kit Harington: I think it was an important moment for us. What I wanted to capture is that he is just really happy to see her again. He doesn't care if that arrow is loosed and he dies – he gets to see her one more time. It's quite a beautiful moment for him, there's a silence there. | |
| Rose Leslie: It became very profound. Certainly through season four she was on her own mission and she was going to get her own back, and I don't know if she foresaw how much she loved Jon Snow – that was her last breath, sort of. It was a very beautiful moment. | Rose Leslie: It became very profound. Certainly through season four she was on her own mission and she was going to get her own back, and I don't know if she foresaw how much she loved Jon Snow – that was her last breath, sort of. It was a very beautiful moment. |
| What would you say to fans who plan to stop watching the show as it catches up to the books? | What would you say to fans who plan to stop watching the show as it catches up to the books? |
| George RR Martin: I encourage everyone to watch the show. I do also encourage people to read the books. In regard to the question of how to experience the story in its true form, I've said it before like this: How many children does Scarlett O'Hara have? In the book Gone with the Wind, she has three, but she has one child in the film. Of course, the true story is that she has no children because she never existed. She is a fictional character and there are two wonderful ways of telling this story. Who did Robb Stark marry? Was it Talisa, who died, or was it Jeyne Westerling, who lives, and who will be seen in the prologue of Winds of Winter? | George RR Martin: I encourage everyone to watch the show. I do also encourage people to read the books. In regard to the question of how to experience the story in its true form, I've said it before like this: How many children does Scarlett O'Hara have? In the book Gone with the Wind, she has three, but she has one child in the film. Of course, the true story is that she has no children because she never existed. She is a fictional character and there are two wonderful ways of telling this story. Who did Robb Stark marry? Was it Talisa, who died, or was it Jeyne Westerling, who lives, and who will be seen in the prologue of Winds of Winter? |
| Kit Harington said he wanted to see more male nudity in the show. What are you going to do about that? | |
| Kit Harington: I'm very aware that anything I say right now is being listened to by the creators, so I'm going to say nothing, because otherwise I'll have to get my kit off for the next season. | |
| John Bradley: The good thing about me and male nudity is that everything is served. It'll still get the boob count up. Everybody wins! | John Bradley: The good thing about me and male nudity is that everything is served. It'll still get the boob count up. Everybody wins! |
| I feel like Sansa gets a lot of crap that she doesn't deserve. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how you envision her journey of where she started to where she ended up? | I feel like Sansa gets a lot of crap that she doesn't deserve. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about how you envision her journey of where she started to where she ended up? |
| Sophie Turner: When I started, at 13, I never thought, 'This is the way my character is going to go, I'm just going to end up like Maleficent and it will be great.' I just grew with her as an actress while she grew as a character, and it's down to the writing. When I got the scripts for season four, it was such a relief. For the past four seasons, Sansa's been hiding in her facade, and it felt so good to be the manipulator at court, who finally gets to reveal herself. It was freaking awesome. | Sophie Turner: When I started, at 13, I never thought, 'This is the way my character is going to go, I'm just going to end up like Maleficent and it will be great.' I just grew with her as an actress while she grew as a character, and it's down to the writing. When I got the scripts for season four, it was such a relief. For the past four seasons, Sansa's been hiding in her facade, and it felt so good to be the manipulator at court, who finally gets to reveal herself. It was freaking awesome. |
| What do you think of Sansa and Tyrion's relationship? | What do you think of Sansa and Tyrion's relationship? |
| Sophie Turner: They did really begin to have this genuine bond and trust with each other and it was just getting kind of beautiful … and in the spirit of Game of Thrones, they cut that off. I would like in the future for them to be reunited – they would make a great new power couple, like Brangelina. | Sophie Turner: They did really begin to have this genuine bond and trust with each other and it was just getting kind of beautiful … and in the spirit of Game of Thrones, they cut that off. I would like in the future for them to be reunited – they would make a great new power couple, like Brangelina. |
| Do you feel bad when you have to cut detail from the books, like the recent disparity between Tyrion's story in the books and what happens in the show? | Do you feel bad when you have to cut detail from the books, like the recent disparity between Tyrion's story in the books and what happens in the show? |
| David Benioff: When you write a show, you don't have access to a character's mind. The beauty of the book is that you spend time inside Tyrion's mind, but unless we use voiceovers or narration, we can't translate it and it's heartbreaking, because there's so many scenes we have to lose. From a storytelling point of view, we woud love to have 13 episodes, but there just is not time for us to maintain that kind of production, with VFX and filming in all these different countries. | David Benioff: When you write a show, you don't have access to a character's mind. The beauty of the book is that you spend time inside Tyrion's mind, but unless we use voiceovers or narration, we can't translate it and it's heartbreaking, because there's so many scenes we have to lose. From a storytelling point of view, we woud love to have 13 episodes, but there just is not time for us to maintain that kind of production, with VFX and filming in all these different countries. |
| We always hope that people who read the books and watch the show can learn a lot more about the chracter and get a lot more depth and time to spend with those characters. As hard as we try, we can't match that level of detail and storytelling. I am reminded about the crime writer Jim Thompson, who was asked, "How do you feel about Hollywood ruining your books?" He pointed to his bookshelf and said, "Hollywood hasn't ruined my books." | We always hope that people who read the books and watch the show can learn a lot more about the chracter and get a lot more depth and time to spend with those characters. As hard as we try, we can't match that level of detail and storytelling. I am reminded about the crime writer Jim Thompson, who was asked, "How do you feel about Hollywood ruining your books?" He pointed to his bookshelf and said, "Hollywood hasn't ruined my books." |
| • This article was amended on 28 July 2014 to correct the spelling of Kit Harington's surname, from Harrington as an earlier version said. |