Game Of Thrones’ cast and crew have been opening up about some behind-the-scenes secrets from the show, and basically – nothing was as glamorous as it looks.
While we fully expected the fight scenes and the bloody deaths to be far from a barrel of laughs to film, we thought there would at least be some ceremony over the most iconic and extravagant sets.
But nope, no such luck – even the throne room was, essentially, just a super fancy storage facility.
Earlier this month, concept artist Kieran Belshaw has revealed how he brought some of the show’s biggest sets to life.
Speaking at Con of Thrones in Nashville, Tennessee last weekend, Belshaw revealed on a panel (Via FilmSchoolRejects): ‘They set up this test body pile in the throne room, and so I walked in there a few times and took lots of reference pictures.
‘You’ve got the space, you may as well use it,’ he added, later adding that when it wasn’t in use, or being fought over, it was mainly used to chuck things into to get out of the way.
All that fighting over an elaborate storage closet for the show’s numerous corpses…who’d’ve thunk?
The third annual Con Of Thrones saw Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jerome Flynn and Hannah Murray among the stars that dropped by ahead of the main event – San Diego Comic Con- this weekend.
There, a number of the stars reunited to talk about the final season, and how they were shocked that fans weren’t more supportive of it as it received backlash.
Showrunners DB Weiss and David Benioff swerved the fan event completely in light of the backlash, pulling out at just two days’ notice.
However, they haven’t got that much to complain about, seeing as they’re still leading the 2019.
In fact, it’s a record for the ceremony, knocking NYPD Blue from their 25-year streak of having the most number of recognitions in a single year.
Game Of Thrones is available in full now on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.
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