One of the many things that Game of Thrones has worked so hard to keep under wraps this season centers on Dany’s return to the Dothraki people. At the end of Season 5, we saw her surrounded by them, and in the trailers for Season 6, we’ve seen that she is a prisoner of them. But who are these new warriors who she has met? Do we know any of them from the books? With half a dozen actors cast in various Dothraki roles for the season, we know that at least some of them will rise to prominence in her storyline, but which ones? And who do they play?
Now, for the first time, one of those actors is speaking out. Joe Naufahu, who from what we were able to glean from filming, because the most important Dothraki in Dany’s life, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter, along with Emilia Clarke, to discuss his character, along with Dany’s return to the Dothraki lands.
His character is named Khal Moro, which book readers may recognize. He is a bit character in the very first novel, at the “presentation” of Dany to Khal Drogo, and then appears again once more in A Feast For Crows, as someone Dany thinks might be an ally among the Dothraki, since he was once loyal to Drogo. Naufahu suggests in his interview that loyalty might also be a factor on the show.
“He’s Dothraki, so he’s a bit of a brute. But he’s also quite loyal. He follows traditions very strictly. He’s loyal to the living, and he’s loyal to the dead as well. He’s not as much of a chauvinist as some of the other Dothraki.”
Moro is also as big of a bad ass as Khal Drogo, from the sounds of it. As Naufahu recounts: “My hair was down to my butt, and that’s because [Moro] has never been beat.” As a former rugby player before turning professional trainer and actor, doing the stunts, the riding and so forth was easy. The hard part was learning the fantasy language.
“There’s no rules. There were no language rules you can fall back on while filming. You have to remember the sounds. Not only do you have to learn your own [lines], you have to learn the other people’s as well. Otherwise, you’re just standing there waiting for a reaction. That was the toughest part. I can ride horses; that’s all good. I can grow a beard. They can put tattoos on me. In terms of prep, it was just the language. “
Clarke agrees the language is always the hardest part–not having had to speak it for a couple of seasons meant that she too was out of practice. “It had been a second. I had to practice to get all of that back again.”
And though she won’t give anything away for what will go down with the Dothraki, other than the fact that she never took it for granted that her character would be safe, she also projects confidence in what her character can achieve. “I’m a Khaleesi,” she says. “They can try to step up to this, but they will fail.”
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/04/22/emilia-clarke-and-joe-naufahu-talk-danys-return-to-the-dothraki/
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