Interviews with Game of Thrones actors have been popping up online including new ones with Kit Harington, Gwendoline Christie, and Nathalie Emmanuel. The Kit interview with Humo, a Belgian magazine, has an especially revealing tidbit. His and Gwendoline’s interviews are behind a paywall but thankfully, fans have shared their access (and translations) with the world to everyone’s benefit.
The city of Girona is filling up with the stars of Game of Thrones, as production prepares for the filming of a huge season 6 today. We’ll be sharing the latest spoiler confirmations and photos below!
As for sightings, Jonathan Pryce, Eugene Simon, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, John Bradley, Hannah Murray, and Maisie Williams have all been seen around Girona in the last day.
Game of Thrones has been readying the grand Girona Cathedral for a major scene filming this week, and people have spotted a great deal of crew activity, in front of and around the cathedral. It seems the crew has even gotten mischievous with onlookers.
One twitter user has taken video footage of the statues in front of the Cathedral being covered with seven-pointed stars, in preparation for filming over the next few days.
Game of Thrones received a total of 24 Emmy nominations this year and the celebrations started tonight, with the handing out of the Creative Arts awards at a ceremony at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
At the Creative Arts ceremony, the technically oriented and guest acting categories are announced, and Game of Thrones picked up 8 (!) well-deserved awards in several categories!
We have a mixed bag of Game of Thrones news out of Spain for our readers today. Girona became yet another city in the show’s world, another member of the theatrical troupe is identified and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s presence in Girona is unquestionably confirmed.
WotW reader Ramon Ferrer shared two photos of the current filming preparations around Girona Cathedral with us today. The vans appear to contain some armor, though it’s difficult to see much detail.
#girona #gameofthrones #armour #cathedral @WatchersOTWall @Los7Reinos pic.twitter.com/UkqQBNqg8U
— Ramon Ferrer (@rferrerca) September 12, 2015
We’ve reached the last of the Scene categories in the Watchers on the Wall Awards preliminaries. Next week, we’ll finish up with the Quote categories and dive into the finals.
Today we’re celebrating the funniest scenes of Game of Thrones season 5. We’ve collected the suggestions of our readers here for your voting. As always, there’s a wide selection, ranging from scathing and witty exchanges to visual humor and gags. Some of these scenes may even be serious in some ways, but still make you laugh hard. That’s Game of Thrones for you.
Choose the five scenes that made you smile and laugh the most, and vote!
We’ve got yet more casting news for you today!
The actor Kevin Eldon has been identified as the Leading Actor in the colourful theatre troop appearing in Season 6, currently filming in Girona.
Eldon is a stand-up comedian, poet and actor well known for having roles in seemingly every British comedy over the last twenty years, as well as for starring in his own BBC comedy series It’s Kevin and as the new voice of Penfold in the Danger Mouse reboot. He’s also appeared in films including Hugo, Hot Fuzz and Four Lions.
While the name of Eldon’s character isn’t known at the moment, the Leading Actor role is the one that appeared in this casting breakdown .
Described as, “using a pronounced Northern accent,” and, “a flamboyant caricaturist,” it seems like Eldon’s comedic chops will be perfect for the part. He certainly has a lot of experience utilising multiple accents and personae thanks to his background in sketch comedy.
Thanks to eagle-eyed WotW reader Gravemaster for first identifying Eldon!
Take another look at Eldon in costume below (spoilers)
Game of Thrones filming in Girona, Spain, continues and the activity around the public theatre set has revealed the role Richard E. Grant will be taking in season 6.
Images courtesy of Teleprograma show the actor, confirmed as appearing in the new season, participating in a play-within-the-show. Recent leaks have shown many views of the set and revealed several new cast members, including Essie Davis as the troupe’s leading actress. Today’s newest batch of photos unveils Grant’s role, that of the company’s lead actor who plays the king.
Details and more photos below!
We’re bringing you another piece of Game of Thrones casting news today!
Australian actress Essie Davis has been cast in the role of the Leading Actress for the colorful theatre troupe appearing in season 6, that we’ve spotted filming around Girona this week. It was the location filming that led to fans identifying the actress.
Davis is best known to audiences as the star of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. She’s also appeared in films such as The Babadook, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions.
The specific name of Davis’s character is unknown at the moment. The Leading Actress appeared in the first casting breakdowns of season 6, described as “an elegant actress with a traveling theatre company.” The character is a “fun, charismatic, rum-drinking actress in the troupe.”
Thanks to WotW reader Mark for bringing the casting to our attention!
For a look at the actress in costume, look below! (Spoilers)
The very last item in this post contains heavy spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6, so be forewarned if you intend to read that far down.
In an interview with The Credits, director Jeremy Podeswa has opened up about last season’s most controversial episode, “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.” Here are some notable extracts:
There was a lot of outrage over Ramsay’s rape of in “Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken.” How did you feel about that?
[…]I think the way people perceive behavior is relative to the way they relate to the show and the arc of the series, and the longer the series goes on, the more people invest in these characters, and the more they care when terrible things happen to them.[…]
Let’s talk about some of your challenges in this episode, like creating the House of Black and White, and, specifically, the Hall of Faces.
[…]Everyone thinks we have unlimited resources, but we don’t. In the earliest discussions of what The Hall of Faces was going to look like, we agreed it had to be incredibly vast and spectacular, but then we feared we couldn’t do it properly with the resources we had, so there was talk to reduce the scope… So what we ended up doing is building pieces of the set, and then used effects for rest. We minimized the number of shots and angles because we realized if we could be very specific of how it was shot, we could be grand in vision.