‘Game of Thrones’ Trivia – ‘Game of Thrones’ Fun Facts

Lena Headey (Cersei) and Jerome Flynn (Bronn) once dated in real life. “Jerome and Lena aren’t on speaking terms anymore and they are never in the same room at the same time,” a source told the Telegraph. That’s why Bronn left that major meeting in the Season 7 finale so quickly.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss had to tell George R. R. Martin who they thought Jon Snow’s mother really was before turning A Song of Ice and Fire into a television show.

Lena Headey used a body double (her stand-in, Rebecca Van Cleave) in Cersei’s walk of shame in the Season 5 finale.

The original pilot episode never aired. It was so bad that showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff were told they had a “massive problem.”

Yup, Jojen Reed is Sam from Love Actually. Both are portrayed by actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Charles Dance, who played Tywin Lannister, never read the books on which the series is based. He explained to Vulture in 2014: “We’re filming adaptations by David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss]. We’re not filming the books. And it’s counterproductive sometimes for actors to go back to the book, because they then tend to come on set and say, ‘Why aren’t we doing this scene? I’ve got this wonderful line here, and I want it in.’ That’s not what we’re about.”

The actors who play Tormund (Kristofer Hivju), Ser Jorah (Iain Glenn), The Hound (Rory McCann, and Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) formed a “band” called Brotherhood Without Banjos in between filming scenes for Season 7. Watch their viral video here.

Joe Dempsie (Gendry) and Hannah Murray (Gilly) have been in the same show before. They costarred in Skins from 2007-2008. “I keep hoping my storylines are going to cross with Joe Dempsie at some point,” Murray told Glamour this year.

Hodor actor Kristian Nairn had 70 ways of saying “Hodor.”

The show broke the record for number of stunt people set on fire. There were 73 burns in the loot train battle of Season 7, where Drogon unleashed his wrath on the Lannister army.