New Pictures of Sand Snakes, Arya and More!
Entertainment Weekly is just a font of Game of Thrones pictures and news this week. Yesterday we got a look at the new covers that included Arya’s amazing new transformation. Today we’ve got portraits of the Snakes, as you can see above, a second picture of Arya’s “All Grown Up Now” transformation, plus one of the always photogenic Jon Snow, as you rarely see him: SMILING!
Check out a great shot of Arya’s new look, plus the Sand Snakes, below!
I cannot get enough of this look on Arya. Back a long time ago at the end of Season 1, when she escaped Baelor dressed as a boy in Yoren’s care, she was a little 11 year old, prepubescent thing. Somewhere over the season since, Maisie Williams (and Arya Stark) quietly grew up, but her outfits up until now haven’t reflected that. The shock of seeing her feminized for the first time in years would be a head turner, even if it wasn’t an awesome tribute to Braavosi fashion.
Talking to EW, Maisie had this to say about her new outfit: “It’s very neutral, very plain, but clean! I have clean hair that actually moves. I came onto the set and nobody recognized me.”
When it comes to resting dourface Kit Harington, this totally counts as smiling. Perhaps because when asked, his response to who he wanted to take on in a fight was….Boromir, aka, Ned Stark.
There’s also other tweets of who characters would fight. Arya’s is a blast.
Make sure you check out all four answers from EW’s cover characters, at the link!
I am amazed how excited this show has me to go to Dorne. Keisha Castle Hughes looks every inch the bad-ass as Obara Sand, eldest of the three (featured) Sand Snakes in the show. The fact that she wields the same weapon as her father once did only adds to the BAMF attitude she’s sporting.
Middle sister, Nymeria Sand (Jessica Henwick), reminds us that you don’t have to wear pants. That clip in the trailers of the barrel being bull-whipped off the head of some poor soul buried up to his neck? That’s her handiwork.
Youngest Sand Snake Tyene (Rosabell Laurenti Sellers), is the wielder of double daggers. On the subject of the sisters, Castle Hughes tells EW:
“We haven’t seen women like this on Game of Thrones before. You have lone wolves like Arya and Brienne, and others like Daenerys or Cersei, who are politically strong surrounded by men. But you haven’t seen women who are strong together and who collaborate – which is a dangerous thing. We’re three girls who are violent and manipulative who are thirsty for Lannister blood.”
Cersei won’t be able to sneer her way out of confrontations with this brood of Sands, I fear.
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