Also, notably, we see a green screen covering the back-drop of this battle scene. The special effects department's strategy of mixing reality with computer animation is clear here.
While the most important part of the scene - the White Walkers - are the real deal, the snowy, dark backdrop needed some enhancing. While much of the show is shot on location, studios still help in instances where a natural environment isn't quite enough.
While we've clearly addressed Game of Thrones' use of computer animation, it's worth pointing out that a decent amount of the show is very real. While this isn't a picture of some epic battle scene or fantastical monster, here we get an idea of the more realistic side of the Game of Thrones set. We see here Margaery Tyrell, played by Natalie Dormer, sitting with other ladies of the palace.
From the intricate details of the background, to the flawless costuming and hair, we are really transported to Westeros in this behind-the-scenes photo.
Is that Khal Drogo smiling? This is definitely a sight for sore eyes, seeing as how most fans still haven't gotten over the death of their favorite Dothraki warlord and chief.
His problematic love story with Daenerys aside, fans still hated to see him go. Drogo, played by Jason Momoa, is known for his impeccable body, signature Dothraki hairstyle, and of course, his terrifying scowl. You'll be hard pressed to find Khal Drogo cracking a smile in the show, but here Momoa looks pleasant and even cuddly. It turns out the Mountain actually is that massive in real life. Not only that, but he's just as strong and terrifying too. Just this past year, Hafthor Bjornsson who plays Gregor Clegane on Game of Thrones, was officially crowned the world's strongest man.
Bjornsson also won Europe's Strongest Man and the Strongman Classic Arnold Scwarzenegger's competition , making him the first man to do so in the same year.
Bjornsson measures in at a whopping 6'9" and lbs, so it looks like they really did get the best Mountain for the job! Sometimes it can be hard to pick out exactly what behind the scenes moment we're witnessing, but this one is obvious. This scene appears in an episode where Euron Greyjoy ends his brother Balon in order to take control of the Salt Throne. When this scene aired, you may remember the setting as being incredibly dark and somber, with a blue hue and mountain fog taking over the entire screen.
They also appear to be towering over a cliff, but as this picture shows, the bridge isn't in the mountains at all. It likely comes as no surprise that there's plenty of down time on the Game of Thrones sets. With a massive set, along with all of the details that come along with a big budget production, the cast and crew had to endure their share of bad weather and long hours.
Infamously, the Battle of the Bastards took a grueling 55 days to shoot. Assistant director Jonathan Quinlan posted on Instagram thanking the cast and crew for their incredible dedication. The working conditions everyone had to endure make Game of Thrones that much more impressive. They're the family everyone loves to hate, or hates to love - either way the Lannisters are big players in Westeros. They have always been at the center of the drama, and have also been the cause of many violent events in Game of Thrones - most notably pushing Bran from the tower in season 1.
They may be at odds in the show, but on set it's nothing but love. As we got a glimpse of before, the Wights are usually a mixture of makeup, prosthetics, costuming, and of course, trusty CGI. In this episode , they focused specifically on Jon Snow's kidnapped Wight. Apparently rendering one Wight up close and personal was "way more complicated than 10, Wights," according to director Jeremy Podeswa.
Another fun fact: when the Wight gets split in half, it was actually done on set - no CGI required! While an impressive amount of Game of Thrones shooting locations are just as epic and realistic in real life, even mother nature can use some help from a green screen. Green screen or not, this cast and crew suffered through some serious elements to make the battle scenes happen. While it likely helped the cast stay in their characters, it was clearly a challenge.
It's easy to forget from the comfort of our couches that this show is the real deal! It's no question that the Game of Thrones sets are massive in scale.
From the production budget, to the number of cast and crew members, it takes more than one person to make sure everything runs smoothly. Even just glancing at this behind the scenes shot of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Jamies Lannister shows just how many crew members are working in the background at any given time. Sure, some of them appear to be hanging out too, but every person is there for a reason.
With a production of this size, everything needs to go as smoothly as possible. Like the Battle of the Bastards, the Red Wedding was also inspired by actual events. The costumes each actor wears on "Game of Thrones" have hidden messages related to their characters. It included all of the first five seasons as well as featurettes and other related content. Singer Lily Allen once said she turned down the role of Yara Greyjoy because she would have had to play out incest scenes with her real-life brother, Alfie who plays Theon.
Turns out, Allen lied about the whole thing, which her brother confirmed with Vulture. Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays Missandei on the show, worked in retail prior to and during filming. The funny thing about the purr with Drogon was watching people watching [the show] and giggling when they heard it, but not really knowing why.
To me, it's because it had that essence, that kind of sensual, sexual essence. When filming wrapped, nearly all of the actors got to take home a character souvenir. Emilia Clarke told Variety's Actors on Actors that when she auditioned in front of Benioff and Weiss, she asked the pair if she could do anything else after her scenes. Jokingly, Benioff told her to do a dance, which she did in all seriousness — the Funky Chicken, because it was the only dance she knew.
By the end of season seven, the total number of deaths in Westeros had reached an astounding number. The final episodes of "Game of Thrones" have been in the works for years. According to Benioff and Weiss in their Entertainment Weekly interview, the pair first talked about how the show would end during season three. If casting had gone another way, Jon Snow would have turned out to be much different from the version audiences know.
The Red Wedding was inspired by a real massacre called "the Black Dinner," during which a king of Scotland invited a clan he'd been fighting with over to make peace over a feast.
When the meal was over, they dragged them out and killed them in the courtyard. Maisie Williams will be one of Sophie Turner's maids of honor at her wedding. The two are actually BFFs in real life and even share matching tattoos of the date when they were first cast. More people yell "Tyrion! Hannah had worked with Joe Dempsie who plays Gendry during her first job, which was the show Skins. Sophie said that her favorite day on set was when Arya was reunited with Sansa , saying it was both "funny and difficult" because they couldn't keep it together.
Maisie said it was kind of awkward reuniting with Sansa onscreen because it was a bit strange having to act in front of each other again after acting apart for so long. To practice for Shireen's death scene , Kerry Ingram said, "They took me out to an empty car park in the middle of Belfast and had a vocal coach scream with me. When Emilia received the final script for Season 8, she read it and then walked around London for three hours to process it all.
The first time Maisie and Sophie met was during their screen test for a chemistry read. At the end they both hugged and told each other that they hoped the other would land the role. Maisie and Sophie's parents were both at a read-through during Season 1 when Sean Bean was present. In typical teenage fashion, they both said their parents were being "really embarrassing" around Sean.
Emilia said the "horse heart" she ate in Season 1 was made out of solidified jam, but it "tasted like bleach and raw pasta. Emilia was covered in so much sticky fake blood while filming that scene that when she went to take a bathroom break, she got stuck to the toilet seat. Michele Clapton — a costume designer for the show — said that the sound crew absolutely hated the early Kingsguard armor because the metal scales made too much noise. Sean Bean described seeing the prop of his head from Ned's beheading as "a bit strange" and "a bit creepy.
Nikolaj used to accidentally rip his pants a lot in the first season. According to Michele Clapton, every character's costume is intentional and is ALWAYS meant to portray a story — "often hinting at loyalties and desires. Also, special attention is given to costumes that characters wear when they die. Lena Headey's walk of shame scene was done by a body double named Rebecca Van Cleave.
They filmed Van Cleave nude while Headey wore a beige shift, then the visual effects team combined their performances.
Isaac took a year off from playing Bran and didn't appear in Season 5, so when he came back for Season 6 he remembered thinking, "Argh! I've forgotten how to act! Nathalie Emmanuel Missandei remembers receiving The Call — the one where she learned she got the part — when she'd just come home from shopping at Tesco.
At the time, Nathalie was struggling financially and working at Hollister in Liverpool before she snagged the role of Missandei.
After her first season of shooting, she had to go back to working retail , because it wasn't life-changing money. At least 13 actors who were in the Harry Potter film series have also been on Game of Thrones. Ian Whyte played the giant Wun Wun, but the 7'1" actor also filled the role of the Mountain during Season 2.
Joe Dempsie said that fans get his character Gendry confused with Daniel Portman's character Podrick all the time. Charles Dance Tywin Lannister learned how to skin a deer for a Season 1 scene in which he's shown skinning a real deer. Peter Dinklage is a vegetarian in real life , and the meat he eats for the show isn't real.
To help maximize security for the final season, each actor's character had a different name on the call sheet. Richard Dormer Lord Beric Dondarrion said the first episode of Season 8 "will give you a small taste of what's to come. Martin's earliest memory of a fantasy story is when he owned dime store turtles when he was little. He kept them in a bowl with a play castle, but eventually they would die in a few months, despite him feeding them the right amount of turtle food.
That's when he imagined they were fighting over a "turtle throne.
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