Season Two Casting Changes/Additions

[Skydiver]

Just what it says it is. Who's joining the show, who might be recast.

No untagged spoilers beyond book/season one please.

Example: If Arya is recast to show that the character has grown or years have passed, fine. If she's recast because the actress didn't want to sign up for only a few episodes because her character was getting killed off, don't tell us. Let folks find out when the episode airs.

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

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casting rumours abound that 3 majors actors, including one off Camelot have been cast. The Camelot alumni seems to be heavily hinted to be James Purefoy.
More info here.
http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/07/...celed-camelot/

[gotthammer]

casting rumours abound that 3 majors actors, including one off Camelot have been cast. The Camelot alumni seems to be heavily hinted to be James Purefoy.
More info here.
http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/07/...celed-camelot/

Hmm. I hope one of them IS Eva Green.

Spoiler:

(Eva Green as Asha and Claire Forlani as Mel, perhaps? then again, alumnus/i does hint at the male gender...that or they didn't bother w/ using alumna/ae...then again, alumni could mean both genders...bah. )

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

gott,

I think Eva Green is too curvy to do a good Asha.

[The Mighty 6 platoon]

Big casting news.

Melisandre will be played by Carice van Houten and Stannis will be played by Stephen Dillane.

More info here
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/19/stannis-melisandre/

[magictrick]

'Game of Thrones' casts sorceress Melisandre and Stannis Baratheon

Huge Game of Thrones casting news! Producers have filled the two biggest new roles of the show’s second season — a mysterious sorceress and a powerful contender for the Iron Throne.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/19/stannis-melisandre/

[Lahela]

Maester Cressen cast?

GRRM said (and the spoiler tags actually contain a spoiler if you haven't read the rest of the books yet and can figure out the clue)

Spoiler:

His fate is one that Derek Jacobi has tasted twice.

He knew Indiana Jones, has hung with droids and jedi, thrice contended for a Larry, winning once. He's been a knight (often), an archbishop (twice), a dean, a priest, a doctor.

Ian McDiarmid is my guess - he fits the Larry's clue (won in '82, nominated in '83 and '91), was in the Young Indy thing and Star Wars. Fantastic if it is him!

[Lahela]

It was for Cressen, but GRRM said it's Oliver Ford Davies.. Great choice!

[LeftHandedGuitarist]

I'm delighted by the choices for Melisandre and Davos, they both look perfect. I saw Carice in Black Book and Valkyrie, and she was very impressive. The guy they've got for Stannis, I'm currently unsure about. He looks a bit "soft" for the role, but then I've never seen him in anything before so I am trying to reserve judgment.

I trust the casting producers on this show, they got season 1 damn near perfect. Alfie Allen as Theon was quite a long way from what I pictured in the books, but he pulled off the arrogance quite well.

[Andron]

Some more casting updates!

Tom Wlaschiha is Jaqen H’ghar http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/08/...s-jaqen-hghar/
Nonso Anozie is Xaro Xhoan Daxos http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/08/...o-xhoan-daxos/
Gemma Whelan is Yara Greyjoy (Asha) http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/08/...-yara-greyjoy/

Here's an overview of all the casting for season 2 http://winter-is-coming.net/features/cast/season-two/

[LeftHandedGuitarist]

Renaming Asha to "Yara" is a terrible idea.

[magictrick]

Renaming Asha to "Yara" is a terrible idea.

Yea, I mean if the audience has managed to remain relatively clear on the myriad of characters, houses and relationships that exist up until this point, I don't think two different characters named Asha and Osha would have made much of a difference when it comes to confusion.

[Andron]

Yea, I mean if the audience has managed to remain relatively clear on the myriad of characters, houses and relationships that exist up until this point, I don't think two different characters named Asha and Osha would have made much of a difference when it comes to confusion.

The names do sound similar, but I don't think that the audience will mix them up. If you go by the logic of the name confusion, the you could say that Yara almost sounds like Arya...

[magictrick]

The names do sound similar, but I don't think that the audience will mix them up. If you go by the logic of the name confusion, the you could say that Yara almost sounds like Arya...

Yea, exactly. I don't think the writers are doing themselves or the audience any favours with this move. Not that I think it will be a big deal or anything though.

[LeftHandedGuitarist]

I don't really have an issue with the fact that they want to distinguish between Asha/Osha, but my point was that 'Yara' is a ridiculous sounding name that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the names in the world. Why not call her 'Ashara' or 'Tasha', or something that just sounds a bit more sensible?!

[Andron]

I don't really have an issue with the fact that they want to distinguish between Asha/Osha, but my point was that 'Yara' is a ridiculous sounding name that doesn't really fit in with the rest of the names in the world. Why not call her 'Ashara' or 'Tasha', or something that just sounds a bit more sensible?!

I know, Yara really doesn't fit her. Tasha would have been my first choice.

[Skydiver]

is it a legal reason? sometimes shows have that problem....stargate did a lot...anytime they had a 'real world' character they had to run the name through legal.....that's why Pete's job changed. He was a reporter in the first spoilers, but there was a pete shanahan that worked in colorado as a reporter, so he became a cop instead.

maybe there's a problem with the asha name?

[gotthammer]

Nah. I think the only reason is the 'possible' confusion w/ the Osha character.

Kinda annoying, since Asha's my fav. character in the book series. *shrugs*

[g.o.d]

probably the most interesting character from the second book has been casted

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/08/...s-jaqen-hghar/

[Andron]

More casting news!

Roy Dotrice has been cast to play the role of the pyromancer Hallyne
http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/08/...ancer-hallyne/