Martin: “Actors Beg Me Not To Kill Them”, And Other Interview Tidbits
It’s the last major round-up of red carpet interview videos from the San Francisco Premiere earlier in the week. We’ve embedded interviews with several actors—including Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Liam Cunningham, and Hannah Murray—below. But the main draw is an interview with the Father of Dragons himself, George R.R. Martin.
Check them all out below!
This is the interview we reported on yesterday, where Martin makes fun of people who fear spoilers. But the interesting part to me comes before that segment. It’s when he admits how his characters aren’t that real to him in the books. “They’re just characters on a page,” he says. It’s interesting how, even for writers, taking something and acting it out on TV makes it so much more real, especially when you take into account all those deaths. But what can you do, when you’ve killed someone off five years before you met them?
It’s funny that this is the question all the actors want to ask—”Do I die?” I mean, I suppose they already know the answer, philosophically. The question they really should ask is “How?”
And here’s Emilia Clarke—probably one of the few characters who might be considered safe…but she knows better. And more importantly, she knows who she should be supplicant too—Benioff and Weiss, not Martin. After all, just because Martin kept you alive in the books doesn’t mean you survive on TV…
But given the choice, she’d assume she survives—what she wants to know is if she’d win.
Sophie Turner nails the Dark Sansa transformation. We may joke about it’s a goth thing, but it’s really about manipulating Littlefinger.
She doesn’t want to ask Martin if she’d die, interestingly, suggesting that she thinks it’s in the cards. But she does provide more proof, as if we needed it, that Pedro Pascal is incredibly popular. Turner says she’d bring him back from the dead over her own mother.
Meanwhile, Maisie is still really jazzed about that whole “dress wearing thing” she gets to do this season.
Hannah Murray is right though—once they start giving you multiple costumes and showing off your feminine side, wearing a dress means that the expectations get raised. She’s doing just fine in her one outfit, thank you very much.
Go on, Gwendoline. Keep having none of that dress stuff.
Meanwhile, since there’s no dresses to talk about, Liam Cunningham talks about what’s really important—Season 5!
I know they all say they’d swipe right, but if Littlefinger or Ramsey Snow came up, the only logical answer is Swipe Left. (Also, a direwolf. I’ll agree with that.) Finn Jones on Dany and how she’s a terrible ruler is pretty spot on though.
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