A series of interviews with Game of Thrones actors Alfie Allen, Harry Lloyd, Rose Leslie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Oona Chaplin has been released, in which they discuss their characters.
SciFi Now caught up with some of the stars at the DVD launch. Alfie Allen talks about Theon Greyjoy playing a bigger role in season 2 and his relationship with sister Yara (Asha):
The girl who plays my sister [Gemma Whelan plays Yara Greyjoy] is amazing, she’s really, really good and a really cool girl. In terms of playing him as character, it was good to find similarities – and don’t ask what they are, please! – between you and the character, and it was a journey playing it.
Rose Leslie joins the cast this year as Ygritte, and she teases her character’s interactions with Jon Snow:
She’s a Wildling and she comes from north of The Wall, so she’s from the True North where it’s incredibly cold. She’s lots of fun, she’s level-headed and strong – very, very strong – and she has a lot of fun teasing Jon Snow. She gets a lot of entertainment out if him, she can’t understand him and she can’t work him out and she goes through a whole process of trying to work out who this boy is.
Jaime Lannister’s story has changed a little in the second season from what in the book was A Clash of Kings, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau reveals that the best scene he has this year was added by the writers! He says:
I don’t think it’s in the books! I can’t really say any more. [Jaime is] not evil, I don’t see him as evil. He does some acts that are quite horrible, but there’s a good reason behind his actions.
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Oona Chaplin plays Jeyne Westerling, another character who will appear differently in the TV series than in the book. She teases:
There has been much speculation on the Jeyne that I’m playing all I’ll say is you guys are in for a big surprise. There may be some canoodling involved, we can definitely say there is a kiss with a certain lovely gentleman who we’ve seen in the trailer.
Finally Harry Lloyd was also in attendance. His character, Viserys Targaryen, was, of course, killed in season 1, and he offers some reflection on playing the role:
If you can find a way to do these things that are so extreme and horrible that people can come round to his twisted way of thinking, you’ve probably done your job well because no-one’s good, bad, everyone’s doing something for a reason – that’s how you’ve got to approach it, I guess.
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