50 MORE Facts You Didn't Know About Game of Thrones

hey what's up guys it's Ryan I hope you're all having a great summer or whenever you're watching this so about a year ago I made my first game of Thrones facts video and it ended up getting a ton of views actually the most out of any video I've ever done so I thought to myself why not make another and that's exactly what I've done here are 50 more facts you didn't know about Game of Thrones when we first met Tywin Lannister at the end of season 1 he gave Jamie a lecture while skinning a stag which was a metaphor for House Baratheon since their sigil is a stag but what you might not have known is that they used an actual dead stag and actor Charles dance was in fact skinning it for real Stefan Dillon who played Stannis Baratheon has since said that there was nothing negative about his time on set but he also has nothing good to say and didn't really enjoy it he apparently did not understand most of the stories and said that he took the role for money Lena Headey and Jerome Flynn went through a breakup that left them on horrible terms so it was written into their contracts that they would not have to film any scenes together remember when Daenerys ate that horse part in season 1 after shooting that scene actress Emilia Clarke was covered in so much fake blood that she got stuck to a toilet george RR martin had a cameo in the pilot as a noble of Pentos attending Daenerys wedding sadly the Cameo didn't survive the reshoots Jack Gleeson based Joffrey on Joaquin Phoenix's performance as Commodus in gladiator or I shall strike down those tears to you you shall watch his eye so I think it's pretty fair to say few characters on Game of Thrones hate each other the way Cersei and Tyrion do they really do have a special thing going back when you ripped my mother open on your way out of her and she bled today she was my mother too how's it gone the sake of you though in real life actors Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey are basically best friends Dinklage said in a reddit ask me anything sometimes we have to avoid eye contact so we don't crack up for three weeks ahead of the season six premiere Israeli TV provider yes created a new temporary channel devoted entirely to Game of Thrones it reared the entire first five seasons and had wall-to-wall featurettes with any kind of programming they could find relating to the show [Applause] several musicians have appeared on Game of Thrones as extras in the rains of castamere Coldplay drummer world champion played one of the musicians at the red wedding in hardhome the heavy metal band Mastodon can be seen playing wildlings who are killed by the White Walkers and later resurrected as wives and finally ed sheeran made an appearance in season 7 as a Lannister soldier which didn't go over too well with fans to say the least when Game of Thrones first started its executive producers promised that they would never do any dreams or flashbacks soon however this promise didn't last long as bran dreamed about the three-eyed Raven and a serious road of scenes from Circe's childhood here comes another younger more beautiful to cast you down and take will you all did George RR Martin's confirmed that the words of house Bolton are blades are sharp it's most likely because of the Bolton's history of playing their enemies alive unlike many previous battle scenes the Battle of the bastard youth very few aerial shots this was because HBO's safety rules kept them from using camera drones over horses and people this gave them the idea to work around it by shooting most of the battle on the ground from John and Ramsay's perspective when it came time to add visual effects for Ramsay Bolton's long-awaited death scenes VFX group's image engine originally planned to use CGI to show Randy Bolton's jaw getting ripped in half by his own hunting talents but after they finished it they decided that the site was too gruesome even for Game of Thrones and scrapped it so Christian Narns audition tape for Hodor is pretty interesting take a look wha-ha it comes as no surprise that the most expensive episode today was the Battle of the bastard it reportedly took 600 crew members 500 extras and 25 days of filming to pull off the epic clash in 2015 the series set the emmys record for winning the most awards in a single year taking home 12 Emmys out of 24 nominations SML is the only other series to win more overall Emmys the Iron Throne actually contains a replica of Gandalf sword from the Lord of the Rings HBO announced it will explore four different Game of Thrones spin-offs after the series ends but more than likely only one spin-off will make it to air the infamous red wedding is actually based on two very bloody historical events the black dinner and the massacre of Glencoe the black dinner involved a murder of the 16 year old Earl of Douglas and his younger brother under the pretense of a friendly dinner and the massacre of Glencoe happened yet again under the guise of friendliness and saw the killings of 40 men in their sleep in the books Daenerys eyes are actually violet a color very rare in Westeros but common among Targaryen Emilia Clarke tried to wear violet contacts in order to appear even more like the mother of dragons but it affected her performance so the idea was proud the very brunette Emilia Clarke has never dyed her hair Daenerys white blonde hair is constructed through a rather elaborate wig and makeup procedure which is pretty impressive considering just how realistic her hairline looks on the other hand sophie turner who is a natural blonde dyed her hair red for the role of Sansa back in the days of seasons 1 and 2 Tommen Baratheon was played by a kid named Callum War II in season 3 Dean Charles Catlin played Tommy's cousin Martin Lannister but he was only in a couple scenes before getting stabbed to death by Lord Karstark and then in season 4 Chapman stepped into the booth of Tommen replacing Talon lorries the production of Game of Thrones lasts the entire years and they shoot the show like a 10 hour movie season 5 alone were shot in five countries on 151 set for 240 days having 166 cast members over 1,000 crew members and over 5000 extras when prepping for the battle scenes The Game of Thrones team took inspiration from several battles in history the strategy used by the Bolton forces in the Battle of the bastards for example was inspired by the tactics used by Hannibal against Rome during the Second Punic War to avoid confusion some character names had to be changed in the television series for example Yara Greyjoy is called Asha and the book while Lisa Erin's child Robin is named Robert their names were changed because Asha has sounded too much like OSHA while Robert could have been mistaken for Robert Baratheon when george RR martin started writing a song of ice and fire he was hugely influenced and inspired by the Lord of the Ring Tolkien gave us Holy's histories lease appendices and genealogies and everything was was routed and it seemed as real as England or France or Germany when you when you read these things and since then that's become the style or epic fantasy Asiya fantasy readers now expect they expect a fully realized secondary world as toking called it Alfie Allen Richard Madden and Kit Harington are seen shirtless in the first episode of the series while getting ready for King Robert's welcome they all later admitted to doing push-ups and flexing to look more muscular on camera Charles dance found Lord Tywin's treatment of his son awful he later remark that it was hard for him to mistreat a nice man like Peter Dinklage you asked that you who killed your mother to come into the world you are an ill-made spiteful little creature full of envy lust and low cunning george RR martin has stated that several of the show's characters are improvements over his own versions in the books specifically mentioning Natalya tenure as OSHA and see Belka Keeley as Shay you belong to me now he said I want you to [ __ ] me like it's my last night in this world during season three the crew faced an interesting problem when Kit Harington broke his leg the actor got locked out of his own apartment in London and attempted to climb up to it predictably he fell and broke his leg which meant the film crew had to come up with creative ways to film around the injury primarily they had to use jon snow stand Ian's wearing matching costumes and wigs although the wall is the largest structure in the Game of Thrones world it is not the tallest in the books the tallest structure is the high tower in Old Town and the second tallest is the Great Pyramid of murine mathematicians scoured the Game of Thrones book series and published a paper in Mass horizon analysing who was the most interconnected character in the series their results showed that Tyrion interactive with the most characters and as a result they concluded that he was in fact the main protagonist strategy known as many people as I can never know which one you'll need a Lannister always pays his debts are not the official words of House Lannister they are actually hear me roar one of the show's most important structures is the wall it's said to be around 700 feet tall but as I'm sure you already guessed it's mostly CGI however there is a real wall but its height is only 17 feet Cersei and Daenerys have both played Sarah Connor from the Terminator series Lena Headey played Sarah in the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV spin-off and Emilia Clarke played Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys the ice sword used by the White Walkers is actually oven-baked clear resin Peter Dinklage is a vegetarian in real life meaning that all the meat he eats in the show is actually made of tofu when Daenerys married Khal Drogo Illyrio mopatis gave her the three dragon eggs that would eventually hatch and grow into the Dragons we know today the egg props however were given in real life to george RR martin by the prop master who constructed them a new breed of sea slug found in 2013 was named Tritonia Khaleesi after Emilia Clarke character in the show this was supposedly because the pale appearance of the creature made it resemble Daenerys with their long white law remember sir she's walk of atonement in season 5 well how could you forget but what you might not have known is that it wasn't actually Lena Headey body but rather that of body double Rebecca Van Cleave in America there is an actual argument at trial by combat may still be legal Britain ban bit in 1819 but America has its own set of laws and it was never explicitly banned that doesn't mean it would hold up in a court of law but then again who knows kosher runner David Benioff originally wanted the rains of castamere to be the theme song for Game of Thrones but DB Weiss eventually convinced them it wasn't the best idea however the song has gotten thorough use on the show with it being saying and mentioned in several episodes [Music] top Thor bjornsen who plays the mountain stand at a towering 6:9 amazingly he's still shorter than Kristian Nairn who is 6 10 and a half Gillian Anderson of x-files turned down the role of Cersei Lannister due to having two young children at the time Game of Thrones has included nine actors who appeared in the Harry Potter movies they are Natalya Tania or OSHA David Bradley or Lord Walder Frey Julian Glover or grand maester pycelle Michelle Fairley or Catelyn Stark CR and hens or mance rayder's Ian white or wound wound Ralf Ineson or Dagmar cleft Shaw Edward Tudor pole or the guy giving a speech in season 2 and Bronson Webb the guy who got beheaded in the pilot and eight actors who were in star wars the force awakens they are Gwendoline Christie for Brienne Max von Sydow or the three-eyed Ravens Thomas brodie-sangster or Jojen Reed milquetoast Uralla mood or Syrio Forel Jessica Henrik or numerius and Emin Eliot or marillion mark Stanley or gren and Hannah John caiman or ornelas for the first few seasons of Game of Thrones the budget hovered around five or six million which admittedly is a pretty hefty budget for a TV show but with the increased viewership and popularity they are now spending roughly 10 million dollars per episode in Westeros bastard born to Nobles are given different surnames than their fathers according to the region they were born these surnames are mostly associated with the geographic or climatic features other different regions for example the reach is flowers the westerland's is Hill the Iron Islands are Pike the Riverlands are rivers Dorne is sand the north is snow the Vale is sown the Stormlands are storm and the Crown lands are waters the face Lyanna Mormont made towards Ramsey during the Battle of the bastard took twitter by storm last years according to the director the scene was shot approximately 60 times an actress Bella Ramsey gave the Liana face in every single one alright thank you guys so much for watching see you next time [Music]

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Published: Sun Aug 13 2017