GOT Casting

[shipperx]

A favorite Rome veteran is joining HBO’s Game of Thrones.

From EW.Com:

Actress Indira Varma has been cast in season four.

Varma will play Ellaria Sand on the show, the sexually adventurous paramour of a key new character, Prince Oberyn Martell “The Red Viper” (played by Pedro Pascal).

Last year, the production added fellow Rome actor Ciarán Hinds.

Varma joins fellow season 4 new hires Pascal and Sherlock writer-actor Mark Gatiss. Coming off the show’s highest-rated and most-Emmy-nominated season yet, last week at Comic-Con, Thrones producers and cast told EW they expect season 4 will be the show’s best.

“We got more action, which is obviously more time consuming,” says showrunner David Benioff. “It’s a brutal shooting season ahead. But if we can make it through, yeah, I think it’s going to surpass season three. The last 3 episodes, there’s so many scenes we’ve been waiting for so long to do. And it just gets more and more fun to write for these characters. After three years of doing it, we have that much more comfort to make everything uncomfortable for them. We’re very excited for it.”

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, Mark Gatiss? The weak link on Sherlock and Doctor Who.

Otherwise interesting news.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

That came out last week but they wouldn't say who he was playing. Can't really think of who he might be.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

So acting then? I assumed writing...possibly because I don't know him as an actor...

[shapinglight]

I like Indira Varma. I hope the character she plays doesn't get killed off this time (which is usually what happens to her).

[paratti.livejournal.com]

She is the female equivalent of Sean Walking Spoiler Bean usually.

[shapinglight]

;)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Not that I remember, but then I skim a lot of the Dornish parts.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

I'm just happy they're going with actors of color for the Dornish characters, because the rest of the cast is so glaringly white.