GOD some of these fucking quotes/stories about the production of GoT
Sophie Turner herself was first âinformedâ 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: âLast season [Thrones director] Alex Graves decided to give me hints. He was saying, âYou get a love interest next season.â And I was all, âI actually get a love interest!â â â Apparently Turner assumed they meant they were going to cast Harrold Hardyng for Sansaâs Vale storyarc in Season 5, to be her handsome and noble love interest as he was in the novels. Instead, Turner said, âSo I get the scripts and I was so excited and I was flicking through and then I was like, âAw, are you kidding me!?ââ
[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 âeveryone else in the series [represents the] drama side. I represent the perv[ert] side of the audience, and Iâm saying I want full frontal nudity in the scenesâ
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 wasnât a staff writer (that is, actively a member of the roundtable meetings at which the other 3-4 writers discuss adaptation decisions)