
After the Red Wedding episode, in which several characters died violently and unexpectedly, she "was hoping it was like

I was like, ‘Who’s that guy?’ ‘Um, He’s Joffrey. “The first two years I didn’t have any idea of what was going on,” she says. "I don't know your real name, and I'm not interested, but you're Shae, right?" said the girl.įor ages Kekilli hadn’t even watched the show. She was recently in Istanbul when an American girl accosted her. The fans, she says, are sometimes "hard to handle". "It's always a possibility," she says with resignation. She told George RR Martin she didn't want to die. Shae Sibel Kekilli, the German actor who plays the courtesan Shae, is worried about the high mortality rate on the programme. ," he says, "bad!" 'The first two years I didn't have any idea of what was going on' "I thought that was pretty cool," he says before correcting himself lest any child psychologists are listening.
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Hempstead-Wright recounts a bit in series three when a character's decapitated head is replaced by that of a wolf. “What are your favourite on-screen deaths?” asks a man from a film magazine. They seem so young and innocent that it seems a shame to make them dwell on the horrors of Westeros. And the consequences of trust and love – which are things we all think of as good things – do they work out in your favour in the end?"

"I think it's quite a good representation of what power and wealth can do to your mind. Hempstead-Wright is accompanied by another young actor, Thomas Brodie- Sangster, aka Jojen Reed, who waxes philosophical about the show's themes. jumping across ancient battlements in Northern Ireland, then taking selfies with heads." "I've been picked up a few times in a Hodor re-enactment fashion," says Isaac Hempstead-Wright, the teenager who plays him. F**k sweet." 'It's every kid's dream, taking selfies with severed heads'īran Stark and Jojen Reed Bran Stark was thrown from a high window in the first episode ofĪnd is now a disabled mystic carried about by a man called Hodor. He's with the Dutch actor Carice van Houten, aka the scary magic priest Melisandre, with whom he also worked on the film 'We were lovers, and now we hate each other's guts.' 'I like to think of it as a marriage'ĭavos Seaworth and Melisandre "I feel like Ban Ki-moon," says Liam Cunningham, the Irish actor who plays the reformed pirate Davos Seaworth, as he's faced with journalists from all over the world.

So what's it like to work on such a leviathan, under the scrutiny of some of the most hard-core fans in television? Ten members of the cast give their – and their characters' – perspective. (“It comes when it comes,” says a passing publicist with a sigh.) But we don’t know for sure, because Martin hasn’t written the final book yet. Will all the politicking and betrayal conclude with a zombies-v-dragons showdown.

Meanwhile, zombies rise in the north, three baby dragons are born in the east, and there is gratuitous nudity everywhere. Several major characters have met blood-splattered ends: a hero is decapitated, a pregnant woman is gruesomely stabbed, an obstreperous pretender is given a molten-gold crown. The imaginary land of Westeros contains warring factions, brutalised idealists, Machiavellian psychopaths and a general air of insecurity and dread. , which is based on the sprawling, epic novels of George RR Martin. They are here to interview the cast of the sprawling, epic television series In a series of suites at the Corinthia Hotel in London, journalists sip coffee and stare at their smartphones.
