A year after the disappointing Game of Thrones finale aired, Emmy nominee Carice van Houten defended the way showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss decided to end their HBO hit series.
‘The fact that some people were so disappointed is because everything before that was so good,’ the Dutch 43-year-old told Insider on Sunday.
‘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.’
‘Everything before that was so good!’ A year after the disappointing Game of Thrones finale aired, Emmy nominee Carice van Houten defended the way showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss decided to end their HBO hit series (pictured September 22)
The Dutch 43-year-old told Insider on Sunday: ‘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…I just thought it was a sign of how good the show was’
As of Tuesday, 1.8M GOT fans have signed a Change.org petition to ‘Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with Competent Writers.’
‘That’s beyond fandom. That’s extremism. That’s scary,’ Carice blasted.
‘Knowing the writers and knowing how f***ing great they are, they don’t deserve that. I think they are probably cool enough to deal with that but still, they are human beings, they are trying to make a good product.’
Van Houten pointed out how season eight’s Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) and season one’s Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) were both reluctant kings of Westeros.
‘That’s beyond fandom. That’s extremism. That’s scary’: As of Tuesday, 1.8M GOT fans have signed a Change.org petition to ‘Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with Competent Writers’
‘I loved the randomness of just picking a king’: Carice pointed out how season eight’s Bran Stark (L, Isaac Hempstead Wright) and season one’s Robert Baratheon (R, Mark Addy) were both reluctant kings of Westeros
‘I’ve definitely had some really epic scenes’: Van Houten – who turned down the role of Cersei Lannister – ‘loved’ her arc as R’hllor priestess Melisandre of Asshai over 29 episodes
‘I loved the ending. I loved the randomness of just picking a king,’ the Temple actress explained.
‘That’s why I loved the first season, the guy who actually was king, 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?”‘
Carice added: ‘I loved the randomness and clumsiness of picking some guy, which is very representative of the world right now, as crazy people are ruling the world. I thought it was a great comparison.’
Van Houten – who turned down the role of Cersei Lannister – ‘loved’ her arc as R’hllor priestess Melisandre of Asshai over 29 episodes.
‘I thought, “How fickle!”‘ The Temple actress recalled how burning Princess Shireen ‘killed my sympathy points’ but reviving Jon Snow prompted ‘fans asking me to marry them’
Over five hours in the make-up chair: Melisandre nicknamed ‘The Red Woman’ has the best chance of returning for the prequels considering she could be up to 400 years old
Carice laughed: ‘I have people stare at me and be a bit scared, or they say I know you from something and they say please tell me what it is, and I say, “The night is dark and full of terrors” and they scream. People in the airport waving saying “Lord of light!” It’s funny’
‘I’ve definitely had, throughout the whole thing, some really epic scenes. The birth of the shadow monster, the leeches on Gendry. Burning Shireen, that killed my sympathy points,’ the Instinct star recalled.
‘Then, the season straight after, I brought Jon Snow back to life. It went from “die b**** die” and death threats toward my character, to fans asking me to marry them. I thought, “How fickle.”‘
Of all the characters in GOT, Melisandre nicknamed ‘The Red Woman’ has the best chance of returning for the prequels considering she could be up to 400 years old.
‘I have people stare at me and be a bit scared, or they say I know you from something and they say please tell me what it is, and I say, “The night is dark and full of terrors” and they scream,’ Carice laughed.
‘My son has the coolest hair’: Last Thursday, Van Houten shared a snap of her long-haired three-year-old son Monte with babydaddy, Golden Globe nominee Guy Pearce
Still going strong! The three-time SAG Award nominee and the Australian 52-year-old (L, pictured in 2018) met on the set of Brimstone in June 2015 – five months after he separated from his wife of 18 years, psychologist Kate Mestitz
‘People in the airport waving saying “Lord of light!” It’s funny, I love that sort of stuff.’
Last Thursday, Van Houten – who boasts 2.6M social media followers – shared a snap of her long-haired three-year-old son Monte with babydaddy, Golden Globe nominee Guy Pearce.
The three-time SAG Award nominee and the Australian 52-year-old met on the set of Brimstone in June 2015 – five months after he separated from his wife of 18 years, psychologist Kate Mestitz.