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Nathalie Emmanuel talks about how Game of Thrones changed her life
Very few people are lucky enough to land the job of their dreams. Blessed are the people who make the most of it, and turn it into something remarkable. The cast of Game of Thrones is no exception to that, each one of them did a fantastic job in making the show breath-taking. British actress Nathalie Emmanuel left a permanent mark on our minds with her role “Missandei”.
Missandei was a life changing role for Nathalie. In an interview with Vogue, she talked about the struggles she had to go through as a shy kid. From rarely getting an audition to shining up as one of the most lovable characters on the show, Nathalie has come a long way. She was already a fan of the show before she auditioned for it.
“I heard about the audition… on like a casting website or one of the… main casting site.” She said,” And I saw it and I phoned my agent because I’d already been harassing her about Game of Thrones anyway. I was already like, ‘If there’s ever an audition for me, I need to be on this show… It’s so good.”
She was working at a retail store when she got the call. She recalls, “You know, nobody really gave me a shot… in anything to be honest. I couldn’t even really get auditions. I’d done the odd bit thing. And I was working in retail at the time and it’s just not my skill set… and, so I was like ‘oh god yes someone thinks I can do this’. And I was very close to going back to school and trying my hand at something else. [Game of Thrones] changed my life in a way. Yeah I’m forever grateful.”
Nathalie describes her first day on the set as a “petrified” fan girl moment. She eventually bonded with the members on set. Even forming some lifelong friendships, like with Emilia Clarke. How do you feel about Nathalie’s road to success? Tell us in the comments below.
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Game of Thrones actor Tim Landers talks about dating while maintaining social distancing
The Red Wedding year 2020 took a toll on our everyday life. It diminished our outgoing activities to a bare minimum. The COVID-19 pandemic forced people to stay behind closed doors and avoid any physical interaction. No wonder, the dating scenario under the lockdown period changed dramatically. Tim Landers, the Irish actor who played a brother of the Night’s Watch on Game of Thrones, recalled one such incident with Sunday World.
The 54-year-old actor participated in a reality TV show named First Dates. He reminisced, “It was the Gibson Hotel as usual and I had my mask on when I arrived up and was met by the production staff, who also had masks on. They explained what was going to happen. But they want to maintain I was just arriving on the date, so that was filmed later.”
“When I met Matteo (the maître d’) he was behind a screen when I met him when I came in. Then when the date started I was waiting at the bar at a seat two metres from him. When we were brought over to the table we were amazed to find there was a huge distance between us on a very long table, maybe four or five metres away from each other.”
“They had to do what they had to do under the precautions,” Tim points out. “I feel I was told everything. It wasn’t like I didn’t know, it was fine. And he was lovely, a very funny guy. We had a lot in common.”
Game of Thrones’ Joe Dempsie was once asked out by a crazy fangirl while shooting. Have you ever been on a socially-distanced date? Tell us in the comments below!
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Tim Landers revealed how Game of Thrones opened many doors for him
Game of Thrones was an astonishing tale that amassed record viewership in the past decade. The fantastical drama was an indispensable part of life for both the show’s crew and the audience. Many of the show’s cast members have admitted that the show influenced their life and career in a big way. (Like Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei)). Irish actor Tim Landers recently opened up about his time on Game of Thrones in an interview with Sunday World.
Landers landed the role of Kegs, one of the brothers at Night’s Watch. “I got the part of Kegs, I was one of the Night’s Watch,” he notes. “I had one line in episode eight, the Mountain and the Viper. It’s a very important line from the book, ‘the rains of Castamere’. The way I was treated was fantastic. They put me in a trailer and said ‘hang on there’ and it turned out the actor sharing it with me was Jason Barry, who is from Dublin and was in Titanic, which blew my mind.”
“I remember arriving on set and I said ‘I’m in Lord of the Rings’, which I was a huge fan of, it was the closest I could put it down to.”
He added, “I didn’t get to meet to any of the big names but my buddy who plays my wench, we were in a brothel, my buddy was Lois Winstone, who is Ray Winstone’s daughter. We both get killed in the scene. I was killed off camera by a guy with a hatchet and she was killed by an arrow fired by Rose, the girl who’s married to Kit Harrington (Jon Snow) in real life.”
Have you ever been through a life-changing experience? Tell us in the comments below!
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Emilia Clarke regrets bleaching her hair for Game of Thrones’ final season
Game of Thrones was a mystical journey of a lifetime, for both the cast and the audience alike. When you have worked at a place for nearly a decade, the memories become a part of you. The little pranks played by your co-workers, the overtime and making friends, you miss it all. However, Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke would certainly not miss a particular event from her time on the show. She recently talked to InStyle and shared her experience post-Game of Thrones.
Clarke reminisced wearing a wig for her role. She said, “That wig did wonders — bloody hell. It was like walking around with a permanent bounce. I was reminiscing with Kit [Harington, Jon Snow in GOT] the other day about the hours we pulled and how hard the work was. There’s a grieving process that goes on after the show, obviously, but I think we are now both finally at the point where we can say, “What bits do we miss?” It’s kind of like remembering a relationship.”
Emilia remembered the time when she decided to bleach her hair and faced terrible consequences. She recalled, “Fuck, yeah. [laughs] I decided to bleach my hair blond because I wanted it to be Daenerys’s colour for the last season. My hair was so fried that I basically had to cut it all off, like a proper Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo + Juliet boy cut. Now my hair has naturally grown out. I give it more nourishment than you could possibly imagine. It’s my proudest achievement, and I don’t plan on cutting it ever again. I’m going to be 90 with it down to my bum — that’s my plan.”
What do you think of the incident? Tell us in the comments below!
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