Game of Thrones’ The Night King is by far the most talked about character across any TV show that we know absolutely nothing about.
Who is he? What is he? Is he fit IRL? Thanks to Maisie Williams, we know the answer to one of these burning questions, but otherwise we’re still completely in dark.
After seven seasons and countless bodies to fall on the swords of his army, Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss have shed a little bit of light on The Night King’s (played by Vladimir Furdik) backstory, kind of.
‘It was almost logical as you went back in time, as you create the prehistory for all this,’ Weiss explained to Entertainment Weekly. ‘We’ve seen what the White Walkers do, we’ve seen how they perpetuate themselves and created the wights.
‘If you’re going backwards, well, they made these things … so what made them? We always liked the implication that they weren’t some kind of cosmic evil that had been around since the beginning to time but that the White Walkers had a history — that something that seems legendary and mythological and permanent wasn’t.
‘They had a historical cause that was comprehensible like the way the wars on screen we’re seeing unfold are comprehensible. They’re the result of people, or beings, with motivations we can understand.’
Benioff added: ‘And once you go back into that flashback scene, that required a person there — and that was Vlad who for a long time was our best stuntman.’
Aside from wondering if The Night King single (asking for a friend…), fans have also been dying to know why he doesn’t speak. Actually, it’s pretty simple.
‘What’s he going to say?’ Benioff asked. ‘Anything the Night King says diminishes him.’
Fair.
The man behind the blue eyes recently confirmed The Night King does have a motive and it’s really bad news for one reside of Westeros in particular – and our guess is it’s Sansa Stark.
Pray for Sansa, guys. Or don’t. Your call.
Game of Thrones returns to HBO and Sky Atlantic on April 14 while seasons one to seven are currently available to stream on NOW TV.
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