now that the harrenhal/mad king cast list has been announced (https://www.rsc.org.uk/game-of-thrones-the-mad-king/cast-and-creatives) - worth clicking on the photos btw, they give a list of each actor's previous works including previous RSC experience - do you have any thoughts about the casting?
okay wowww thanks for sending this, i hadn't seen it yet!!!!
- diverse casting of poc actors in main roles!!!! like almost all the main roles!!! i feel like uk theatre productions are great at doing this and i've seen this happen more and more, but this still took me by surprise, not sure why! seems like a pretty bold thing to do with such an established franchise and characters as well known as the starks. unfortunately i know some parts of the fandom on reddit, twitter, and even on here are going to be disgustingly racist about this so i hope the actors are getting support. however theatre is different and less visible than tv/film so hopefully it won't be as terrible as it was with the velaryons on hotd. great visibility for these young actors though!
- VERY blonde jaime. hell yeah
- ok so catelyn will be in it... i don't know about this. i don't want them to lean into the ned/catelyn side of things and make her have a big role, but if she just appears with the tullys and meets ned and it's a cute little nod to their future relationship, that's fine i guess
- and cersei too... seems like she has a small role but again i think jaime has his own story in this that doesn't really involve cersei and adding twincest things could distract from that so let's keep it small
- rhaegar actor out of the gates with one (1) theatre production and one (1) film credit under his belt. all right let's see what this man can do
- lyanna actress is scottish!! WAIT NED ACTOR IS SCOTTISH. SCOTTISH STARKS OMGGGG YAYYY
- i'm excited to see what young varys will add to the story! i wanna see his take on all that goes down at harrenhal, even if it's only in silly cryptic little jokes
- tywin appearance yippee
- excited about all the periphery characters they've added—it's a big cast! i think lady whent and rossart will be very fun to see. and of course the kingsguard
- i don't think i've seen any of these actors on film/tv before, although it looks like some of them have done smaller roles, so this is super great! i expected some more famous names to pop up, again just given that it's game of thrones related, but i really do admire the rsc for sticking to their guns and hiring early-career actors who have mostly theatre backgrounds. everything i've seen about the show (from being staged at the rsc, being a smaller phsyical theatre, cheap tickets) is really committing to being a theatre production unattached from the hype of the hbo shows, so i'm really excited for what that means in terms of the script!!! i think we are going to get a very faithful adaptation that fleshes out the story and side characters we've never seen before so i am very, very excited! looking forward to anything more we learn about the play and about first reviews! :)
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