Kevin Also Blogs: May 2020

It’s been one year since the end of Game of Thrones (exactly- today is the anniversary!) and Emmy-nominated star Carice van Houten is still full of opinions about her time on the show, and the controversial final season. She shared her thoughts with Insider this week, in a new interview.

The actress told Insider that she loves the “randomness” and “clumsiness” of season 8 and she had words as well about that petition to remake the season going around last year: “That’s beyond fandom. That’s extremism. That’s scary.” She defends the show’s writers, saying “Knowing the writers and knowing how f—–g great they are, they don’t deserve that.”

“The fact that some people were so disappointed is because everything before that was so good,” van Houten said to Insider. “So it feels a bit ungrateful. You’ve had such great times and then yeah, you’re going to be disappointed because it’s not going to go exactly how you anticipated. Of course, you’re going to have all sorts of criticisms and I just thought it was a sign of how good the show was.”

“People sometimes take it too far and get too personal, but I can’t take that seriously,” van Houten said. “I just thought it’s people being really emotional about this show. It just always amazes me how people can go behind their computer and just type ‘die b—- die,’ I’m fascinated by that human psyche.”

She was a fan of the choice to crown Bran, making an unlikely comparison between him and another king- King Robert Baratheon. “I loved the ending. I loved the randomness of just picking a king,” she said. “That’s why I loved the first season, the guy who actually was king [Robert Baratheon], didn’t want to be king, so we already got a lesson in the beginning: ‘Why are you striving for that sort of power when, obviously, it doesn’t make you happy?'”

Melisandre played a key role in season 8’s “The Long Night”, and came full circle reuniting with Arya. Van Houten confirms that she didn’t know the “brown eyes, green eyes, blue eyes” line would be important as it turned out to be, with Arya slaying the blue-eyed Night King and every corpse he commanded. “I had no idea. No idea. At the time, I thought ‘I’m just going to say it, it’s probably there for a reason,'” van Houten told Insider. “They told me, ‘We’ll get there later.'”

Carice van Houten has even more to say in her interview so check it out at the source.

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Monday, May 18, 2020

Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal joins Community virtual readalong

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to be more “optimistic,” “episodic”

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The Umbrella Academy cast reveals season 2 release date…with dancing!

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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Josh Whitehouse Talks Canceled ‘Blood Moon’ Prequel

Photo by Nick Harvey/REX/Shutterstock (9911508v) Josh Whitehouse Armand de Brignac Art World Dinner, London, UK - 02 Oct 2018

Josh Whitehouse at the Armand de Brignac Art World Dinner, London, Oct. 2, 2018. Photo by Nick Harvey/REX/Shutterstock.

We’ve all read plenty of interviews from actors on what it was like to be a part of the global phenomenon that was Game of Thrones. But what was it like to *almost* have the world of Westeros on your acting resume?

Josh Whitehouse, the British actor known for the BBC’s historical drama Poldark, can tell you. Whitehouse was cast in the Thrones spinoff reportedly titled Blood Moon that was set thousands of years before the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and also would have starred Naomi Watts, Jamie Campbell Bower and Naomi Ackie.

However, HBO decided to pass on the series in October of 2019 after the pilot was filmed, and while promoting his role in the Valley Girl musical remake recently, Whitehouse told TooFab.com that because his character was supposed to appear beginning with the second episode, he hadn’t actually filmed any of his scenes.

“I got the audition, I got the job and then I spent a year and a half waiting for it to actually happen, pre-prod stuff,” he said, noting that even landing the role “was mind blowing, just such an honor to even be considered for something like that.”

“Then it ended up getting canceled and I was like, ‘Oh, alright,’ ” he added. “I was just honored to be involved, even to be able to say that is a huge thing for my career, it was such a big show.”

Despite the show not moving forward, Whitehouse admitted that there might have been a slight sense of relief in not having to live up to the legacy of Thrones.

“In a sense, Game of Thrones was such a huge thing already, it’s kind of nice to not have that pressure, the potential to not live up to expectations and bring something new to the world,” he said. “But either way I would have been happy.”

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