Jon Snow, Joffrey Baratheon and Khal Drogo were all spotted yesterday – thanks to some creative cosplay at New York Comic Con. Held at Manhattan’s Javits Center, #NYCC welcomed a huge contingent of GoT fans, and a panel featuring Natalie Dormer (Queen Margaery Tyrell), Finn Jones (Loras Tyrell), and Keisha Castle-Hughes (Obara Sand).
The weekend is long and full of cosplay.
The Game of Thrones' fandom flocked to New York City for an action-packed weekend full of Comic Con and cosplay: Sansas and Daenerys and Jon Snows (oh my!). Fortunately, no reports of marriage or murder have been reported.
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Instead, Lannisters and Starks roaming the convention center are getting along like old friends — if only Westeros could always be this peaceful. Wwe 2k19 apk.
Some cosplayers are so convincing, the real Hodor and Podrick from the HBO show could blend right in.
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Let’s just get it out of the way, here’s what the cast of Game of Thrones had to say about Season 6 at their New York Comic Con panel:
Keisha Castle-Hughes (Obara Sand): “I’m back.” Finn Jones (Loras Tyrell): 'I can’t say anything.' Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell): Nothing. Yes, she said nothing.
With HBO’s Game of Thrones now caught up with and largely diverged from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books, the cast has to stay extra tight-lipped about the next season — but they’re as anxious about the future of the show as fans are. The cast often spend time on set trying to “crack the code” of what will happen to their characters.
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Margaery's take on the Iron Throne
'I genuinely don’t think [Margaery] wants to be on the Iron Throne,” Dormer said. 'it’s a dangerous place to be. I genuinely think she wants to be the power behind the throne..marry a king, have a baby, then be like Cersei and be the power..it’s safer to be the power behind the throne than on the throne.”
She did offer one enigmatic teaser: When asked by a fan if Margaery could have taken “the walk” that Cersei took in Season 5, Dormer replied: “We’re in dangerous territory for the next season if I talk to you about that.'
What she finds more impactful is the legacy that Thrones has had on female roles in television, and on her own life. She now gets recognized daily and complimented by fans for her portrayal of Margaery.
“I’ve started to notice a change in female roles in scripts over the last few years,” she said, 'and I think shows like Game of Thrones are responsible for that.”
Like her character, Dormer appreciates the subtlety of a strong female — even one like Cersei Lannister.
“Margaery is as talented at machinations and politics and backstabbing as Cersei is,” she said. “It’s the cold war, it’s mutually assured destruction.” She added that in their current circumstances, that may change. “My enemy’s enemy is my friend, maybe?”
Loras' impact on gay characters
Similarly, Jones is pleased with the fact that Loras adds to a repertoire of complex gay characters visible in Hollywood.
“At conventions you all get people coming up saying they’re thankful that gay people are being represented in mainstream television and represented so well,” he said. “In a lot of TV shows now the gay community are being represented pretty fairly, so it’s great.”
He’s aware of the provocative side of Loras, and embraces it. “I like shaving a guy’s chest and then giving him a blow job,” he said with a chuckle, describing his favorite scene — which also happened to be his first of the show.
Castle-Hughes' challenge
If Hughes’ spear-wielding Obara could meet anyone, she would choose another like-minded warrior.
“I would love for Obara to team up with Arya,” she said. “For purely selfish reasons, cause Maisie [Williams] is really awesome to hang out with..it’d be really cool to see all those badass girls fighting together.'
Thus far, the fight scenes have been the most challenging and prevalent for Hughes.
“A big part of the sand snakes choreography is that they don’t fight individually, they fight as a unit, which brings a whole lot of scary elements,” she said. “You’re dealing with three sets of people and three different weapons.”
Though their characters’ fates remain unknown, all three actors are confident in their trust of the showrunners.
Trusting Benioff, Weiss and Martin
“David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] are the perfect people to be delivering the story,” Hughes said. They even convinced Dormer to play Margaery when she had played another prolific queen-who-goes-to-prison: Ann Boleyn, on The Tudors.
'I auditioned for another role in Game of Thrones and I will never say what that role is until the series is over,” Dormer said. When she didn’t get the part, Benioff and Weiss approached her for Margaery and trusted her to “find a different color” from Ann Boleyn. “I think of Ann as fire and Margaery as chilled, like ice,” she said. “Song of ice and fire, see what I did there?”
Jones is 'a big nerd for the books' by Martin, while Hughes was a fan of the show well before she was cast. In fact, her Twitter handle used to be Keisha Stark.
'When I got cast I got in a lot of trouble from HBO, cause they thought I was giving clues,' Jones said. 'I was like no, I’m genuinely sitting at home thinking about being a member of the Stark family.' (R.I.P.)
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The actors agreed on their faith in Martin for concluding the series’ epic power struggle.
“George R.R. Martin..he knows his history,” Dormer said. “He knows is Romans, he knows his Celts, he knows the War of the Roses, he knows the American Civil War, he knows his Tolkien.'
“I would love to spend a day in that man’s head,” said Hughes, who watched the show long before she was cast.
For his part, Jones has a very distinct vision for the end of Thrones. “Personally I think the Iron Throne isn’t gonna be there in the end,” he said. “There will be a huge battle between ice and fire, they’ll have different factions..and they’ll dissolve the throne.”
Jones believes that the Iron Throne which is made of Valyrian steel, will be melted down and used to kill White Walkers from the North. After that, Westeros will revive with new leaders.
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“People like Bran, Hodor, Brienne, Tyrion. Just some good guys to give peace back to the realm,” he said.
Because the good guys always win on Game of Thrones.