A couple of weeks ago, Embassy Films put up a casting call for extras. They were going to film scenes in Dubrovnik, Croatia in mid-December. The notice didn’t say what show or movie it was for, but given that Embassy had worked on Game of Thrones in the past, we wondered if there was a connection.
The Game of Thrones production has used Dubrovnik to stand in for King’s Landing for years—iconic scenes like the riot in Season 2 and Cersei’s Walk of Shame were filmed there. However, it eased off after Season 5. In Season 6, Girona mostly stood in for the city. And even now the production is preparing to shoot King’s Landing scenes in the Spanish city of Cáceres for Season 7.
However, it returned to Dubrovnik for one Season 6 scene: the moment in “The Red Woman” when Cersei (Lena Headey) stood on the shore and waited for Myrcella’s return.
Gregor “the Mountain” Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) was also a part of that scene. Now, it looks like the same two actors are returning to the city, courtesy of a tweet from Headey:
They even fly together
pic.twitter.com/oY88xByisw
— lena headey (@IAMLenaHeadey) December 13, 2016
Note the name on the airline safety packet: Croatia Airlines. Also note Headey’s socks, because they are intense. And of course, note the size difference between the two actors, which is the actual point of the photograph.
Best friends pic.twitter.com/4numLjB8j5
— lena headey (@IAMLenaHeadey) December 13, 2016
So the Mountain and the Mad Queen are off to Dubrovnik. In Season 6, the production went back to the city to film Myrcella’s return to King’s Landing at the same harbor where it filmed her departure back in Season 2. Why is it returning this time? Does it again have something specific in mind?
There’s also this question: if the production is filming King’s Landing scenes in Cáceres tomorrow and Thursday, and Headey and Björnsson are in Dubrovnik, will Cersei and the Mountain not be part of the Cáceres shoot? It’s possible—there are other characters in King’s Landing, after all. It’s also possible that Headey took these pictures earlier and is just posting them now. We’ll look out for more.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/12/13/game-thrones-returns-dubrovnik-film-season-7/
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