While Game of Thrones fans tread water, waiting for the first teaser that will herald the arrival of Winter, or at least a trailer for the coming season, we’ve got some details of Season 6 casting for upcoming roles from the always-thorough-with-the-casting-rumors fansite Watchers on the Wall.
Spoilers and speculation ahoy!
You’ve got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of knowin’ like a martyr?
Spoiling is easy young man, keeping secrets is harder
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The more detailed of the two is for Mark Tankersley, who would be most familiar to fans of the Irish soap opera Fair City. His agency is currently touting the fact that he spent “two months” filming as “General Bolton” for Season 6. That’s interesting, because we’ve only met two characters surnamed Bolton so far on the show–Roose and his son Ramsey. A distant cousin perhaps? Someone with the surname, but who wasn’t slated to inherit, even if Ramsey had been left a Snow? One would assume if there is a big battle on the way, Roose would pull in all the reinforcements he could, including pressing distant cousins into service, and making them generals by default.
Here comes the General. Rise Up.
(Here’s a picture–he does look like he could be part of the Bolton clan, fwiw.)
The “two months” shouldn’t fool you into thinking he has a major part though. It sounds impressive, but as we all know, that’s how long it took to film the gigantic battle scene for who will control Winterfell that’s coming in Episode 9 this season. So it’s quite possible that he’s merely one of the leaders of the Bolton army, and only seen in that episode. He might not even be a “Bolton” as much as that’s his designation for which side of the battle he’s on, and not the character name.
The other casting tidbit doesn’t have as many details, but it is far more interesting, because if the rumored speculation is true, it’s more clues toward the “flashbacks” that Bran will be seeing this season.
Annette Tierney has Game of Thrones Season 6 currently listed on her agency’s PDf’d CV. She’s an “undisclosed character” according to it, but she lists Jeremy Podeswa and Jack Bender as her directors, which means she appears in at least two different episodes. Podeswa is directing the first two episodes of the season while, and Bender is directing the middle of the season (episodes 5 and 6.) WOTW thinks the “undisclosed” nature of her character is leaning towards proof that the “housemaid” character that was being advertised earlier this year was not for a “housemaid” at all, but actually the part of “Old Nan,” but a generation earlier. Though the show has never gotten into it, Old Nan is, according to the books, Hodor’s great grandmother, and has been with the staff since “she came to nurse Brandon Stark… whose mother had died birthing him.” (Which means she’s been there at least one generation back prior to Ned Stark’s generation. Ned did have an older brother Brandon, but their mother did not die birthing him.)
If this is indeed a younger version of Old Nan, and she’s appearing twice in the series, that means that Bran will be flashing back to Winterfell and his father’s generation twice during the series. (One could say that he might even flash back to the generation before, but that’s a bit more convoluted, and the TV show is known to streamline where it can.) We knew from other casting rumors that the show was casting Ned Stark’s generation as children for at least one scene, so it might make sense that that is coming earlier in the series, in the first couple of episodes. Would we also see a second one with the children in the middle of the series?
We do know that Jack Bender is directing the episode that has the Flashback We’ve All Been Wait For, the scene at the Tower of Joy. Would it make sense for Bran to flashback to Winterfell as see them all as children, just prior to that to up the ante? Or would they flash back to Winterfell during Robert’s Rebellion (it should be noted Old Nan lost both her sons during that war), just before Ned goes to the Tower of Joy to find Lyanna?
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/02/09/new-season-6-casting-updates-and-speculation-generals-and-maids/
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