5 Things You Didn’t Know About Game of Thrones
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Game of Thrones
1. Not all Snows are created equal: Iwan Rheon, who plays the demonic Ramsay Snow, was almost cast as Jon Snow, aka the prettiest Crow who ever lived. The story goes that Rheon did not know his character’s identity when he was first cast because Ramsay Snow has such a significant role in the Song of Ice and Fire series. “I wasn’t allowed to exhort anyone about it from scratch of filming to the broadcast of the end of season three. I was supposed to say to everyone, ‘Oh, my character is Boy,’ which was really embarrassing,” Rheon has said. “I auditioned for the pilot of Game of Thrones, and was till the last two for Jon Snow. But Ramsay is the complete polar opposite. In my mind, I secretly thought it was Ramsay.”
2. Did Jack Gleeson’s portrayal of the maniacal King Joffrey make you hold another power-hungry ruler? You’re apprehensive something! As it turns out, Gleeson was heavily influenced by Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Commodus in Gladiator. “Certainly for my characterization of Joffrey, that had a big impact, the smirk,” Gleeson said in 2014. His other villainous influence is a little more surprising: the monster Hexxus from FernGully. Gleeson said that the character was one of his biggest childhood fears. As the Internet has noted, Joffrey and the sadistic Roman emperor Caligula also share many characteristics, including, perhaps most alarmingly, an uncanny resemblance.
3. While filming the memorable (and nauseating) scene of Daenerys Targaryen consuming a raw stallion heart, actress Emilia Clarke was dosed in deeply fake blood that she actually got stuck in the loo. “So I was in a certain degree covered head to toe in the fake blood,” Clarke told Jimmy Kimmel. “And it in a certain degree just stays sticky for quite a ages,” she went on. “There’s a moment when we were filming it that I disappeared and I was follow the toilet.” As for the “stallion heart,” Clarke revealed sweeping was “kind of like a big gummy bear.”
4. Speaking of the Mother of Dragons, you’ve probably been pronouncing her name all wrong. According to David J. Peterson, the language creator at the bottom of all the Dothraki and Valyrian dialogue on the show, the pronunciation is “KHAH-lay-see” not “ka-LEE-see.” GOT devotees are disposed cite her sworn servant Ser Jorah’s pronunciation as a reference, but Peterson said that’s how this full monty started. “Ugh. God. That’s not how it’s supposed to sound,” Peterson once said. “The vowel change bugs me.” However, Peterson explained that the decision to keep the pronunciation as is came before the show’s higher-ups: “The producers decided they liked the other way better. They probably thought most people were pronouncing it that way anyway, which is true.”
5. George R. R. Martin, the creator of A Song of Ice and Fire, has said many times that J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy series had a tremendous prompt him. “I revere Lord of the Rings, I reread it every few years, it had an enormous effect on me as a kid,” Martin once said. “In some sense, when I started this saga I was expose Tolkien, but even more to his modern imitators.” There is even a pretty big Lord of the Rings Easter egg in Game of Thrones: Gandalf’s sword from LOTR seem welded into the Iron Throne. Eagle-eye GOT fans also spotted another illustrious saber in the throne: Robin Hood’s sword from Prince of Thieves.
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