GOD some of these fucking quotes/stories about the production of GoT
Sophie Turner herself was first “informed” of the change from the books, which involved her character now being raped, as part of a joke that director Alex Graves made at her expense during filming of Season 4. As Turner explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly a day after this wedding night scene aired: “Last season [Thrones director] Alex Graves decided to give me hints. He was saying, ‘You get a love interest next season.’ And I was all, ‘I actually get a love interest!’ ” – Apparently Turner assumed they meant they were going to cast Harrold Hardyng for Sansa’s Vale storyarc in Season 5, to be her handsome and noble love interest as he was in the novels. Instead, Turner said, “So I get the scripts and I was so excited and I was flicking through and then I was like, “Aw, are you kidding me!?’”
[Neil Marshall, director of Blackwater] recalled that an unnamed executive producer repeatedly urged him to add more full-frontal nudity during filming. According to Marshall, this producer told him that “everyone else in the series [represents the] drama side. I represent the perv[ert] side of the audience, and I’m saying I want full frontal nudity in the scenes”
Season 4 onwards, there have been no female members in the creative team - that is, not production design, but those actually in a position to influence story adaptation decisions. There has only ever been one female staff writer on the TV series, Vanessa Taylor, who joined the writing staff in Season 2 and continued through Season 3, but then left to work on film projects. Jane Espenson also wrote one episode in Season 1, but she wasn’t a staff writer (that is, actively a member of the roundtable meetings at which the other 3-4 writers discuss adaptation decisions)
You told a 17 year old girl she was getting a love interest and it was the characters rapist
this just shaved five years off my lifespan





















