- Title: Winter arrives in L.A. for Game of Thrones premiere
- Date: 13th July 2017
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 12, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** 'WHITE WALKER' STATUE TO DISNEY HALL ACTOR KIT HARRINGTON WITH GIRLFRIEND ROSE LESLIE ACTRESS SOPHIE TURNER ACTOR NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU ACTOR JOE DEMPSIE ACTRESS GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE HARRINGTON ON PRESS LINE COSTER-WALDAU ON PRESS LINE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU, SAYING: "It's the first half of the end. It's 13 episodes that are going to wrap up the story. These 7 are like the first half but it's going to feel like a normal season but you're going to be like 'Why are there only 7?' but these episodes are jam-packed and there are big moments in all of them so hopefully no-one will be disappointed." ACTRESS NATHALIE EMMANUEL ACTOR ALFIE ALLEN ACTOR JACOB ANDERSON BEING INTERVIEWED ACTOR JEROME FLYNN BEING INTERVIEWED ACTOR LIAM CUNNINGHAM BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, JEROME FLYNN, SAYING: "There's a momentum towards the finale which has started and stars in this next season which is then going to be rumbling very quickly underneath and we could feel that just playing it because of the narrative and who's meeting who and so it's like extremely exciting." (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, LIAM CUNNINGHAM, SAYING: "But there is a much different feel this year. You'll find that as it goes on. It's certainly not all these disparate stories, we've seen people arriving and people coming so that may well rear its head as we go on." HARRINGTON AT PHOTOCALL (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, KIT HARRINGTON, SAYING: "It's uniquely exhausting, I think. I mean, I'm not going to boo hoo and cry about how hard my job is as there are much harder jobs but yeah, I think as far as TV goes, our show is pretty taxing and I get to do a lot of it. But this season there was a lot of quite tough sword-work, some quite tough horse stuff and really hard to rein, so it's hard." TURNER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS, SOPHIE TURNER, SAYING: "In Sansa's case, her grappling with this new-found power that she has and the past 7 seasons have been her being a victim and a captive and a prisoner and how to adapt to that but all of a sudden she has this new-found power and she has no idea how to kind of absorb that and take on that role because she's never worked like that and for me as an actress it was the same thing I've never put myself in a place of such power and I didn't really know how to do it so that was a stretch for me in itself." ACTRESS GEMMA WHELAN ACTORS JEROME FLYNN AND IAIN GLEN ACTRESS HANNAH MURRAY ACTOR ISAAC HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT ACTRESS INDIRA VARMA (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, ISAAC HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT, SAYING: "We go through the exact same emotional trials and tribulations, it's just that we read it on a computer screen and the audience watch it on TV so we're going through all the same things live as you are." CUNNINGHAM AT PHOTOCALL ACTOR JOHN BRADLEY (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, LIAM CUNNINGHAM, SAYING: "I think Hollywood is getting rather over-reliant on human beings that can fly and jump and all that sort of stuff and the storytelling thing has sort of taken a back seat. It's a fashion at the minute, but however it seems that an awful lot of cinematic people have moved over to television and been given free reign and artistic freedom to get on and tell challenging stories and people love that, people respect that because they're not being patronised, they're not being condescended too and they're not being treated like an idiot 8-year old child." BRADLEY BEING INTERVIEWED TURNER GREETING FRIEND GLEN BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, JOHN BRADLEY, SAYING: "It's interesting with these spin-offs and stuff, are they going to go back into the history and mythology of it? Is Sam going to play a part in all that because he's the one recording all this. 'Game of Thrones' could be the recorded word of what was going on at that time, recorded by god-knows-who and Sam's just recording. There's just so many ways you can look at it and so many inter-textual things that George has pulled out of his mind and allowed us to play around with and I think the possibility for that is endless."
- Embargoed: 27th July 2017 05:19
- Keywords: Game of Thrones Kit Harrington Sophie Turner television premiere Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Liam Cunningham George R.R. Martin
- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Television
- Reuters ID: LVA0026PJUAML
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- Story Text:Standing in front of the Disney Hall where the seventh season of 'Game of Thrones' premiered on Wednesday (July 12), a 'White Walker', the mysterious ice warriors from north of The Wall, hinted at what was going to be the biggest threat in the new series.
Actors Kit Harrington (Jon Snow), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) and Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos Seaworth) were among the stars of the upcoming series to turn out for the premiere and give waiting press a sense of what to expect for the new 7-episode series.
"It's the first half of the end. It's 13 episodes that are going to wrap up the story," said Coster-Waldau. "These 7 are like the first half but it's going to feel like a normal season but you're going to be like 'Why are there only 7?' but these episodes are jam-packed and there are big moments in all of them so hopefully no-one will be disappointed."
"There is a much different feel this year," explained Cunningham. "You'll find that as it goes on. It's certainly not all these disparate stories, we've seen people arriving and people coming so that may well rear its head as we go on."
Kit Harrington, who plays the bastard Jon Snow and now the King of the North, is front and center in the trailers going to battle against not only the White Walkers but other foes in the world of Westeros.
"It's uniquely exhausting," he admitted. "I'm not going to boo hoo and cry about how hard my job is as there are much harder jobs but yeah, I think as far as TV goes, our show is pretty taxing."
'Game of Thrones' has been a huge hit for television studio HBO since it first premiered back in 2011 with an advanced cinematic feel to the programme.
"I think Hollywood is getting rather over-reliant on human beings that can fly and jump and all that sort of stuff and the storytelling thing has sort of taken a back seat," stated Cunningham at the premiere. "It's a fashion at the minute, but however it seems that an awful lot of cinematic people have moved over to television and been given free reign and artistic freedom to get on and tell challenging stories and people love that, people respect that because they're not being patronised, they're not being condescended too and they're not being treated like an idiot 8-year old child."
The seventh season of 'Game of Thrones' premieres for viewers on Sunday July 16. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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