He campaigned to "die horribly" The author of the Game Of Thrones books has revealed he tried to secure a cameo in the HBO TV adaptation’s infamous ‘The Red Wedding’ episode.
George R.R. Martin wrote in his blog last week that he asked producers if he could “die horribly” in the bloody scene but was told he’d be too distracting for viewers. “I also campaigned to die horribly at the Red Wedding, which seemed only fair since I was responsible for it,” Martin wrote, “but it was felt that my presence in that powerful, wrenching, bloody scene might have taken the viewers out of the moment.
Fair enough. And not wrong.” The American author may well have jolted viewers, though as FlickeringMyth notes some makeup trickery and costume disguise would
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