OFFICIAL Game of Holmes Season 8 Thread - A Dream of Flat Tops 4/14/19

[Hydroking23]

It's like the reality has hit him that GOT will probably be the peak for him.

Hold ya head up Jon Snow. Life continues!

 

[YaThreadTrashB!]

 

[Listen]

Brehs, at the table reading, they had Jon stab Danny, and then they said “end of game of thrones”

Seemed like they planned on ending with that initially maybe?

 

[Tasha And]

Brehs, at the table reading, they had Jon stab Danny, and then they said “end of game of thrones”

Seemed like they planned on ending with that initially maybe?

Nah, I imagine that did that because they didn't want everyone in the room to know what would happen with Tyrion and Jon afterwards, and to hide that Bran would become king. Leakers originally thought Tyrion was going to be executed at the trial in the dragonpit because details were so sparse. Clearly was some misdirection there.

 

[Listen]

Nah, I imagine that did that because they didn't want everyone in the room to know what would happen with Tyrion and Jon afterwards, and to hide that Bran would become king. Leakers originally thought Tyrion was going to be executed at the trial in the dragonpit because details were so sparse. Clearly was some misdirection there.

Fair point.

 

[Jello Biafra]

angela and lynn are 60 and 66, respectively, very much the age of grandmothers. aint no rule saying it needs to be shriveled 80 yr old granny vs a younger 60-something granny. both of them would slay that role

we're not casting them as 'grannies'...we're casting them as matriarchs

Olenna on the show was ancient looking and Olenna in the books was described as frail and wizened.

Bassett and Whitfield might be in their 60s but they still look good.

 

[FAH1223]

It's like the reality has hit him that GOT will probably be the peak for him.

Hold ya head up Jon Snow. Life continues!

10 years or 1/3 of his life was dedicated to that show. Met his wife on the show. Not surprised he’s going through that.

 

[Osmosis]

Jon isn’t easy to play: He stands for powerful and resonant ideas — loyalty, doggedness, grit — but he doesn’t, moment to moment, get many fun lines. Duty and bombast don’t tend to coexist. Harington notes that his and Clarke’s roles are uniquely difficult on a show whose supporting players steal scenes: “We’re the two young female and male leads, and there’s going to be more pressure on those parts. They’re not your Joffreys; they’re not so showy. And there was a sort of feeling in me, in the middle of when the show was going on: ‘I’d love some sort of character thing.’”

Reading reviews — which Harington swore off around Season 3, at the moment the show leveled up from garden-variety hit to mega-smash — hardly helped. He looks at press on everything else he does, and his face grows intense, his mustache furrowing, as he recalls the early coverage of “Thrones.” “My memory is always ‘the boring Jon Snow.’ And that got to me after a while, because I was like, ‘I love him. He’s mine and I love playing him.’ Some of those words that were said about it stuck in my craw about him being less entertaining, less showy.”

As the series’ political chaos grew more urgent, though, Jon’s gravity came to feel like what the show had been about all along. He was Emmy-nominated for his sixth-season performance that included “Battle of the b*stards,” a technically complex episode in which Jon tried to rescue members of his family and faced down a nemesis as ruthless as Jon is soulfully earnest. “I now look back and I go, well, I was a f—ing integral part of that whole thing,” Harington says. “Jon was, and I am, and I’m proud of it. It took me a long time to not think, I’m the worst thing in this.”

Criticism on the scale that “Game of Thrones” elicits would be jarring for any actor. But this was Harington’s first screen role; the show debuted when he was 24, after he had attended drama school in London and originated the lead role in the West End production of “War Horse.

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The ensemble effect helped make the experience less intimidating at first — but later, when Jon moved to the center of the “Thrones” narrative, anxieties that had been deferred leaped forward. “My darkest period was when the show seemed to become so much about Jon, when he died and came back,” Harington says. “I really didn’t like the focus of the whole show coming onto Jon — even though it was invalidating my problem about being the weak link because things were about Jon.”

Harington had, by the time of Jon’s death and resurrection a year later, been involved with “Thrones” for five years; fan interactions were nothing new. But the spotlight was intense. “When you become the cliffhanger of a TV show, and a TV show probably at the height of its power, the focus on you is f—ing terrifying,” he says. While Harington’s character had putatively been killed in the fifth-season finale, the actor was spotted in Belfast, the show’s base of operations, with that familiar, burdensome set of curls. (Heavy is the head that wears them.) “You get people shouting at you on the street, ‘Are you dead?’ At the same time you have to have this appearance. All of your neuroses — and I’m as neurotic as any actor — get heightened with that level of focus.”

The mania was so pitched that network head Plepler recalls then-President Obama asking him at a state dinner if Jon was really dead. (“Mr. President, even your security clearance isn’t high enough to give you the answer to that,” Plepler replied.)

”Though all the attention reflected concern for the character Harington had built, it also made for something more than a professional challenge. “It wasn’t a very good time in my life,” he says. “I felt I had to feel that I was the most fortunate person in the world, when actually, I felt very vulnerable. I had a shaky time in my life around there — like I think a lot of people do in their 20s. That was a time when I started therapy, and started talking to people. I had felt very unsafe, and I wasn’t talking to anyone. I had to feel very grateful for what I have, but I felt incredibly concerned about whether I could even f—ing act.”

The experience, after five years of gradually increasing fame, changed Harington’s outlook. “It’s like when you’re at a party, and the party’s getting better and better. Then you reach this point of the party where you’re like, it’s peaked. I don’t know what I could find more from this. You realize, well, there isn’t more. This is it. And the ‘more’ that you can find is actually in the work rather than the enjoyment surrounding it.”

Variety Magazine April 2019 Kit Harington on His ‘Game of Thrones’ Journey and Life After Jon Snow

Never understood why people were so critical of Emilia and Kit as actors. I thought they did a fine job with such limited characters, it’s not like their characters lend to these grand performances.

 

[kdslittlebro]

Tryna forget this shyt ever happened

 

[Jmare007]

It's like the reality has hit him that GOT will probably be the peak for him.

Hold ya head up Jon Snow. Life continues!

I saw Kit's appearence on Graham Norton's show, he was with Paul Rudd and Helmsworth promoting Season 8, like a week before Episode 1 aired.

They were chatting up and sharing stories of being a part of these huge franchises and at some point Kit is asked about something and he just reveals he had problems sleeping at night, waking up with cold sweats and shyt and asking himself if they did the right thing with the ending.

At the time it kinda played like a weird comedy bit (audience nervously laughed) as Kit said that everything was fine. But going back to how the season played out and his reaction to reading the script and knowing dude is overly sensitive, it doesn't shock at all he's all kinds of fukked up now that the show ended. And I have a hard time believing he was able to avoid all the negativity regarding the last few episodes so that probably sent him over the edge

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Olenna on the show was ancient looking and Olenna in the books was described as frail and wizened.

Bassett and Whitfield might be in their 60s but they still look good.

Lol @ they look good being a disqualifier, they can be fine GILF Tyrell . And they can have makeup to look older, although quite honestly Lynn looks old, not 80, but not young either

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Variety Magazine April 2019 Kit Harington on His ‘Game of Thrones’ Journey and Life After Jon Snow

Never understood why people were so critical of Emilia and Kit as actors. I thought they did a fine job with such limited characters, it’s not like their characters lend to these grandiose performances.

I never had an issue with Kit, in fact, whenever I saw him criticized, I didn’t get it, especially when it was about him brooding...that’s what Jon Snow is supposed to do. I’d need to see him in something else before I move him past “good”, but Emilia had really bad acting in multiple seasons. I still think she did a good job of being dany, but she’s squarely been mediocre to me in the series, again, maybe like Kit, I need to see her in another role.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I saw Kit's appearence on Graham Norton's show, he was with Paul Rudd and Helmsworth promoting Season 8, like a week before Episode 1 aired.

They were chatting up and sharing stories of being a part of these huge franchises and at some point Kit is asked about something and he just reveals he had problems sleeping at night, waking up with cold sweats and shyt and asking himself if they did the right thing with the ending.

At the time it kinda played like a weird comedy bit (audience nervously laughed) as Kit said that everything was fine. But going back to how the season played out and his reaction to reading the script and knowing dude is overly sensitive, it doesn't shock at all he's all kinds of fukked up now that the show ended. And I have a hard time believing he was able to avoid all the negativity regarding the last few episodes so that probably sent him over the edge

I know it’s hard for them to separate criticism of the story/character from their acting, but I do hope he’s able to. Nothing was wrong with the performance he gave this season, but lord did they trash Jon’s arc and make him a 3 line bumbling idiot...Kit played whatever the fukk Jon was supposed to be in season 8 well, but what they did to his character was disappointing and completely out of his hands

 

[goatmane]

I saw Kit's appearence on Graham Norton's show, he was with Paul Rudd and Helmsworth promoting Season 8, like a week before Episode 1 aired.

They were chatting up and sharing stories of being a part of these huge franchises and at some point Kit is asked about something and he just reveals he had problems sleeping at night, waking up with cold sweats and shyt and asking himself if they did the right thing with the ending.

At the time it kinda played like a weird comedy bit (audience nervously laughed) as Kit said that everything was fine. But going back to how the season played out and his reaction to reading the script and knowing dude is overly sensitive, it doesn't shock at all he's all kinds of fukked up now that the show ended. And I have a hard time believing he was able to avoid all the negativity regarding the last few episodes so that probably sent him over the edge

Knowing all of this...
This gif is crazy. This interview was before the premiere. The cast must've knew

 

[altruicsense]

Maaan hollywood nikkas are so full of it. Dude is drowning in p*ssy and he's depressed? Stressed?
GTFOH people have real life problems and he's mad cuz he wasn't king?

For a cool mill an episode they coulda made him suck off Tyrion and he'd still go home with the bag and smash that redhead wife of his.