Don't know why the casting thread is locked, but whatev... Saw this picture posted and the poster said it was taken "last night in a bar in Belfast." (last night would have been 20 July 12). The guy in the middle is Iwan Rheon (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3701064/), who some now are speculating might be Ramsay Bolton.
I want to keep it clean considering it's a year away. If only there was a thread that was open where you could have post this, but whatev...
wtf, she's not a 10 or anything, but she's too hot to be brienne. And didn't they make Catelyn a real barker?
Yea they made Cat too old. I know they had to age everyone up for our society (in the book 50 was an old man) but Cat still looked like a grandmother. Although I guess its not like chicks in that age would've been fresh faced and wrinkle free. Brienne is supposed to be just straight up ugly AND big which would've been tough to cast.
season 3 Spoiler Ramsay was like hey you see that pool ball? Theon was like yea I do. Then Ramsay said put it up your ass, reek. Theons reaction is what we're seeing.
Spoiler Yeah I just read the Reek chapter in ADWD a few days ago, so they must be switching up the timeline a bit?
Not really. Some of those things were taking place around the same time as the events of SOS but weren't seen through the eyes of the characters
Read yesterday that Dominic West turned down a role for this upcoming season, this article speculates it was Mance Rayder. Spoiler McNulty on "Game of Thrones"? It almost happened, according to actor Dominic West. On Wednesday, I interviewed West, who played the iconic cop Jimmy McNulty on "The Wire," about the second season of the period drama "The Hour," in which he plays newscaster Hector Madden. I asked what other kinds of roles he was interested in, and "Game of Thrones" came up in the conversation. "I was offered something on 'Game of Thrones' and unfortunately, I hadn't seen it, but my nephew and his father said, 'Gosh, "Game of Thrones" is the only great show on!' And I felt terrible, because I'd just turned them down," West said. So what part was West offered? He hasn't read the books, so the name didn't stick in his head. But he did say that taking the role -- a substantial one and similar in stature or importance to Sean Bean's Season 1 character Ned Stark, according to West -- would have involved being "in Reykjavik for six months." ("Game of Thrones" shoots the scenes set north of the Wall in Iceland.) So was it King Beyond the Wall Mance Rayder, which seems like the strongest possibility to me (and the only notable Season 3 role that hasn't been cast)? Was it a member of the Night's Watch north of the Wall? One of Mance's men? Alas, West couldn't recall the name of the character, so we're left to speculate. (I've asked HBO if they know which role West was offered, and I'll update this post if I get more information.) In any event, "it was a lovely part, a good part. I'm going to regret it," he said with a rueful laugh. "My problem is, I've got four kids, and at the moment, I'm reluctant to be away from home for a long time. I can get a lot of work in London and still be at home. That's one of the many brilliant things about 'The Hour.'" "Should I have taken it?" he asked, semi-seriously. As much as I would have loved to see Baltimore's most famous fictional cop on another fine HBO program, I can certainly respect West's devotion to his family obligations. Besides, the Iceland scenes look amazing on the show, but the actors in those scenes also look very, very cold. So now that "Thrones" is out, what kind of roles are West, who won a BAFTA award for his work in the TV movie "Appropriate Adult," looking for? There really are no limits, but he doesn't want to repeat himself, he said. "There isn't enough work out there to be that picky, so the only real criteria are, is it well-written, and the other criteria is about trying to be at home," West said. "If someone says, which they have done, 'We've got a great part, it's a drunken cop,' I might say, 'Maybe not.'" Same goes if he's offered the role of a booze-soaked but ambitious newscaster like Hector Madden of "The Hour." Speaking of "The Hour, a well-regarded BBC America drama that returns in November, things go very awry for Hector this season, according to West: He starts to party hard at Soho nightclubs, he gets mixed up with questionable people, and he has serious troubles with his wife, Marnie (who is, as it happens, played by Oona Chaplin, who also appears as Talisa in "Game of Thrones"). "It's meaty stuff," West says of Hector's Season 2 troubles. "In those days, the head of those news programs got 20 million viewers every night, so they were huge -- everybody knew who they were and they were in everybody's house every night. That's viewing figures we can only dream of now, and I suppose they were big celebrities," and the temptations of that lifestyle tempt Hector a little too much.
for some reason i always pictured Mance as looking like Jason Isaacs. Specifically like a grittier version of Lucius Malfoy.
One of the scenes I'm most looking forward to is Dany in Astapor. I pictured this guy as the slaver she bargains with for the Unsullied.
What kind of traits do you wanna see in Mance Rayder? Not sure if Henry Ian Cusick is threatening enough, But who knows
They've really nailed the casting, IMO. The only questionable one I've seen so far is Edmure Tully, but he's a fag anyway.
He is somewhat close to how I pictured Mance in the face but not big or tall enough, and I can't separate him from his character Desmond in LOST's demeanor which is nothing like Mance. I'm having a hard time coming up with a good Mance, I'm probably just being nitpicky and difficult
Probably, but I just like posting funny gifs of things I slightly disagree with. ... seemed to strong. ... just didn't seem right in context.
If I hadn't read this thread I probably wouldn't think anything of it, but after seeing all the guys we've thrown out there I'm pretty much in agreement with angry pedobear.