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“There was just something about that little tiny thumbnail face that just seemed right,” Benioff said. They found Maisie Williams while going through audition videos in a Moroccan hotel lobby with bad Wi-Fi, and selected her video based on a small thumbnail that looked promising. "I remember we probably looked at 300 girls in England and could not find the right Arya," Benioff said at SXSW in 2017. Arya Stark was the hardest character to cast. Mad Men star Jared Harris and Oscar winner Mahershala Ali were also reportedly up for roles on the show. The Hunger Games franchise’s Sam Claflin auditioned for Jon Snow and Viserys Targaryen, and Outlander star Sam Heughan auditioned for a variety of roles, including Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell, seven times. (Judging by the fact that, per West, the role would have involved shooting “in Reykjavik for six months,” it was probably Mance Rayder, a role that eventually went to Ciarán Hinds.) Gillian Anderson turned down an unspecified role on the show, as did The Wire's Dominic West. There were a bunch of other casting close calls on Game of Thrones.Įhle and Merchant weren’t Game of Thrones’s only could-have-beens. But according to Martin, “Those severed heads are expensive … So unless I provide my own, I don't get to be a severed head!" Benioff and Weiss offered him the opportunity to make a cameo appearance in Season 8, but Martin didn’t have the time because he was working on The Winds of Winter. Martin later lobbied for a less-glamorous, but probably more memorable, role: a severed head on a stake. When the role of Daenerys was recast, the scene had to be scrapped. Martin had a cameo in the original pilot as a guest at Daenerys and Khal Drogo’s wedding. Martin had a cameo in the original episode.

In perhaps the most, ahem, stark difference, if Game of Thrones had stayed completely true to its source material, Robb Stark (Richard Madden) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) would have been only 15 and 14 years old, respectively. Bran was supposed to be 7, while the actor who played him (Isaac Hempstead Wright) was 12 Arya (played by Maisie Williams) went from 9 to 13, while Sansa (Sophie Turner) went from 11 to 15 and Rickon (Art Parkinson) from 3 to 6. When the book A Game of Thrones starts off, the Stark children are much younger than their on-screen counterparts. The Stark kids were different ages in the show than in the books. In the original pilot, Catelyn Stark and Daenerys Targaryen were played by Jennifer Ehle and Tamzin Merchant, respectively by the time the show aired, they had been replaced by Michelle Fairley and Emilia Clarke. Catelyn Stark and Daenerys Targaryen were originally played by other actors. One of the biggest problems? None of the friends he and Weiss invited to watch the pilot “realized that Jaime and Cersei were brother and sister, which is a major, major plot point that we had somehow failed to establish.” In 2019, a copy of that original script was unearthed, which revealed a number of interesting details. “We got everything wrong on a very basic level with the writing of it,” show co-creator David Benioff told Variety. The first pilot, directed by Spotlight writer-director Tom McCarthy, was so terrible it had to be shelved and reshot. There’s an unaired Game of Thrones pilot. Martin’s prequel House of Dragons to hit HBO, here are 70 facts about Game of Thrones to tide you over.

GAME OF THRONES SEASON 2 CHARACTERS SERIES

The series wrapped up with its final season in 2019, but there’s more Thrones TV on the way. And, of course, it made us all want a dragon of our own. Over the course of eight seasons, Game of Thrones broke many records, created a few controversies, and gave us 73 ambitious episodes of television.