has love and betrayal greed and
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murder it's set in this interesting
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world of contrasting ideologies and
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what's right and wrong and has a great
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philosophy about it
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about power struggles in a fantasy
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Kingdom called Westeros and it's about
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struggle for the the Iron Throne which
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is the seed of power in this Kingdom
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there's a war coming
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Ned I don't know when I don't know who
00:55
coming at the core of it there there's a
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a conflict for power between two great
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houses initially house Stark and House
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Lannister the other major houses are all
01:09
contenders as well it's a suitably
01:12
complicated political situation the old
01:14
truth that power corrupts I think is
01:17
very valid and it shows in this series
01:19
you see characters that come into power
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and how they change in a way it's about
01:24
how people forget to see the uh bigger
01:26
picture this common threat that
01:28
everybody kind of ignores because they
01:31
they're too busy pursuing their own
01:33
interests and meanwhile outside the 7
01:35
kingdoms two great threats arising one
01:38
across the sea in the exiled Targaryen
01:40
siblings and another one far to the
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North Beyond the Wall which is the
01:46
boundary of the Seven Kingdoms in lands
01:48
of uh Perpetual ice and cold where a
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supernatural threat is
01:54
stirring it's very different from
01:56
been done I can't think of another
02:00
fantasy which is as dark as this one is
02:02
which is as gritty and as real every
02:04
single character is incredibly complex
02:06
you think you know them you think you've
02:08
got them pegged as uh what they
02:10
seemingly are but they really aren't is
02:12
there someone in your service whom you
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trust completely yes the wiser answer
02:16
was no my lord it's not a good guy bad
02:20
guys story it's a story where everybody
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is pursuing their own interest and
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everybody is following their own code
02:27
and it's about those interests and those
02:28
ethics coming into conflict with each
02:31
other and it just provides a much a much
02:33
richer story than the guys in white
02:35
beating the guys in black but Bish
02:38
perhaps I was wrong to distrust you
02:40
distrusting me was the wisest thing
02:42
you've done since you climbed off your
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horse it's quite a big sprawling epic
02:46
kind of uh story and fascinating
02:48
characters different characters very uh
02:52
Rich sort of tasty characters in there
02:55
you don't know who they all are and how
02:57
shouldn't be out here mil Lord there's
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no telling who has eyes where let them
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look so I I've found it's very dense
03:05
it's very multi-layered I that's what I
03:08
find quite intriguing and quite
03:09
fascinating about this thing next darkk
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is the uh center of the series he's he's
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very realistic quite pragmatic character
03:18
it's his fine work it's not for sale if
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his lordship wants the helmet I made it
03:24
for me forgive him my Lord there's
03:25
nothing to forgive he's principled he
03:28
has values and above all he's very loyal
03:31
you know and that's something that he uh
03:33
he demonstrates on on many occasions you
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helped me win the Iron Throne now help
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me keep them thing we were meant to rule
03:41
together that is the Lord of Winterfell
03:45
and he's uh married to catlyn pully
03:47
together they have uh a number of uh
03:50
children 17 years ago you rode off with
03:52
you came back a year later with another
03:59
woman's son Jon Snow he's of an age with
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Robb the eldest son and their closest
04:05
Brothers I would say Jon Snow is a young
04:07
hero in a lot of ways well Lord Snow it
04:10
appears you're the least useless person
04:14
year personally I think he has a a hell
04:16
of a lot of inner turmoil if he's
04:18
fighting between his ambition to be
04:19
someone and to make a mark on things I'm
04:21
ready you're not going you're no Ranger
04:24
earns when he earns his ambition can and
04:31
does make him do quite extreme things
04:35
the Lannisters are the Queen's family
04:38
Robert barathon the king who had the
04:40
daughter of another Grace house Cersei
04:42
Lannister she is the queen of the Seven
04:44
Kingdoms she's quite tricky layered and
04:46
power mad she's smart and political she
04:49
has a very hard time trusting anyone
04:52
you're just a soldier aren't you you
04:54
take your orders and you carry on I was
04:56
also train to kill my enemies Your
04:59
Grace as was I there's a definite sense
05:02
with cersi that if it will further her
05:05
game of power she'll get rid of anybody
05:08
it doesn't really matter Jamie her twin
05:10
brother is one of the members of The
05:12
King's Guard it would be good to have
05:14
you on the field competition has become
05:17
a bit stale I don't fight in tournaments
05:18
because when I fight a man for real I
05:22
don't want him to know what I can do he
05:24
is a soldier and he doesn't care about
05:26
the politics he knows the game and he
05:28
does not want to be directly involved in
05:31
it Cersei and Jamie also have another
05:33
brother Tyrion Lannister Tyrion
05:35
Lannister because of his size has had a
05:38
very complicated upbringing in relation
05:40
to his father and his sister he's very
05:42
well read he gets zero Powers with
05:45
physical defenses so he has to defend
05:47
himself with his uh wit and charm why'
05:50
much look at me and tell me what you
05:54
see is this a trick
05:57
what you see is a dwarf my brother has
06:02
his sword and I have my mind and a mind
06:04
needs books like a sword needs a wet
06:08
stone there's a set of characters that
06:09
you also encounter uh who are across the
06:12
narrow sea on an entirely different
06:14
continent may I present my honored
06:15
guests viseris of house targaryan the
06:17
rightful King of the Andals and his
06:21
sister Daenerys of House Targaryen he's
06:24
the man on a mission he's is fairly
06:27
obsessive about one thing which is
06:29
regaining his crown when they write the
06:31
history of my reign sweet sister they
06:33
will say it began today he's very bitter
06:35
and resentful of the people who took it
06:39
from him and he carries a huge burden
06:40
his sister is uh the NYS targaryan also
06:44
known as Theos Stormborn tell them to
06:46
stop you want the entire horde to stop
06:49
for how long until I command them
06:51
otherwise she goes on such a journey she
06:54
gets put up with a lot of obstacles
06:56
coming her way and every time she
06:57
overcomes and she succeeds and she kind
06:59
of just gets stronger and stronger as
07:01
she goes on she's an incredible
07:03
incredible Wicked person there's plots
07:04
within plots and wheels within wheels
07:07
and many people competing for one seat
07:08
going into this has always been
07:12
something very important to us that
07:14
thing's never look fake for us it's more
07:15
about creating this world and making it
07:16
an authentic and believable world but
07:18
it's not our world we were lucky enough
07:20
to have the help of a tremendously
07:22
Department I'm responsible for the look
07:27
of the show from the kind of the floor
07:29
to the the sky and working out what the
07:31
CGI is going to be the whole look of it
07:34
from the from there downwards so that we
07:36
have a complete look to the
07:38
series you've got to create a world from
07:40
scratch that feels like you're in a
07:43
different time and different place so
07:44
it's creating different environments
07:45
that work that feel real but don't feel
07:47
like you know either contemporary or or
07:49
known periods that's that's the main
07:51
thing the biggest challenges have been I
07:52
guess the scale of the event we've we've
07:55
created very high standards for
07:57
ourselves to lot of bits to this and it
07:58
just has been a lot of stuff to pull
08:01
together Jama Jackson really ranged far
08:03
and wide to find the artistic resources
08:05
and the stylistic resources to give us a
08:08
world we haven't seen before there's an
08:11
Arctic Wasteland which is very far north
08:13
and you go all the way to a more desert
08:16
Wilderness and everything in between our
08:18
brief was to try to combine interesting
08:21
visual elements from a lot of different
08:24
societies and periods so we spent a lot
08:26
of time researching Medieval Europe we
08:28
looked at Oriental influences we looked
08:32
at Asian influences we looked at the
08:34
subcontinent we looked at African
08:35
influences we tried to find references
08:37
from a lot of different civilizations in
08:39
different times and combine
08:41
them you try and create a world that's
08:44
based in real physics even if it's
08:46
fantasy there has to be a reality to it
08:48
or it will just look like a set so
08:50
you're always trying to think right how
08:52
would these people live what would they
08:53
need why would they put things where
08:54
they where they do how how would it be I
08:56
think the approach we want to take is
08:59
that yes it is fantasy but it's very
09:00
grounded in reality and I think we want
09:02
to make it as real as possible and
09:05
that's same approach we're taking with
09:06
absolutely everything and I think as a
09:08
series goes on you'll see the great
09:09
difference between the four worlds in
09:11
which the series inhabits so it's very
09:13
important that to have a completely
09:14
different look and that the light be
09:15
topography we've been given the luxury
09:18
of of being able to span various
09:20
countries so we scouted probably I don't
09:22
know 14 different countries when we're
09:24
trying to decide where to shoot and why
09:26
ultimately we decided to to to shoot
09:28
Northern Ireland you drive 25 minutes
09:30
and you're at some beautiful Forest
09:32
somewhere and you drive 45 minutes
09:33
you're at this great old castle it's a
09:35
huge scale shooting simultaneously in
09:37
two different countries as Malta and
09:39
irelands is a challenge but it's great
09:41
fun we love it it's one of the fun
09:43
things about this show is that we get to
09:45
make it up we're not queuing to any
09:47
particular historical period absolutely
09:49
this is a fantasy series and and that
09:51
gives us um a lot of freedom and that's
09:53
part of the fun of it fantasy is always
09:55
bigger I mean fantasy is larger and more
09:57
colorful and more exciting I think than
10:00
history so you take your inspiration
10:03
from something in history you make it
10:04
much bigger and and perhaps more
10:06
dramatic it's just the best story it's
10:08
fascinating and there's so many twists
10:11
and turns and and when you think you've
10:12
got it figured it it completely it
10:14
changes its mind and you follow it and
10:16
you get excited by it there's real
10:18
emotion and there's real relationships
10:20
that you can understand and relate to
10:22
and it's just brilliant It's a Wonderful
10:24
story this interesting combination of a
10:25
very real world with an overlay of
10:28
fantasy is a pretty intriguing
10:30
combination and I think it's something
10:32
that you've seen nowhere else on
10:34
television currently I don't think
10:36
anybody will do it quite the way HBO
10:38
does what do you know about fear fear is
10:42
for the winter when the Snows fall 100
10:46
ft deep fear is for the long night when
10:49
the white walkers move through the
10:53
woods when the sun hides for years
10:56
is and children are born and live and
10:59
darkness that is the time for fear my
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