Arya always has a pretty clear path, like: “What’s a cool, badass thing to do and I’m going to do that thing.” Weiss: In a way, Sansa has to face harder choices. She’s always been one of my favorite characters. She just seems really believable, and also she goes on one of the most interesting journeys, because she doesn’t start out as someone who is sharp, and shrewd and tough, but she becomes that person.Īrya is kind of always there-which is what’s great about Arya-but Sansa had to get there by painful experiences. She can be really annoying sometimes, she’s like a stuck up teenager sometimes, but a lot of us were annoying teenagers at some point. There’s something about Arya Arya is a rebel, and people are drawn to people who rebel against whatever the societal strictures are, so that one makes sense.įor me, to be honest, even in the book readers would always hate Sansa, and I always loved her because to me she always seemed like a real person. Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones Season 7, “Dragonstone” © HBO Talk about why Game of Thrones characters resonate so much.īenioff: It’s different for every character. We could just throw all that away and just tell people what happens. Weiss: Should we just tell everybody now? Then we don’t have to do all the work. So what happens?īenioff: But you guys can’t tell anybody… This time it took eighteen emails back and forth about “you take that scene and I’ll take this scene,” when we realized this was actually the last time we were going to be doing this. Weiss: Usually it took two minutes to divide the halves. We divvy up the episodes-Dave Hill will write the season premiere, Bryan will write episode two, and then Dan and I will write the other four. We have a 140-page outline-but it’s only going to be six episodes for this final season. This is the last one we’ll ever do, which is kind of sad.
The four of us get together in a room and we kind of break down the upcoming season, then we split up and write different sections of the outline. Williams: Talk about your writing process.īenioff: We have two other writers on the staff that we work closely with, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill. Weiss: They were all just sitting there doing crunches all day. They’re all standing around and if you look closely you can see that they’re all flexing, because they’re shirtless and they all want to flex their abs. It’s a really weird scene they’re all shirtless. They’re getting their hair cut by Tommy Dunne (weapons master and cameo barber). The Stark boys, Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) and Theon “Reek” Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) are all shaving each other. Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones Season 4, “Breaker of Chains © HBO Can you recall any funny stories during the pilot shoot?īenioff: There’s a scene in the pilot that’s probably the worst scene we’ve ever written. So we met her in London, she read again, and she remained awesome. So we clicked on the audition video and we had to wait about 40 minutes for it download, and we finally saw her first audition for it and she was fucking awesome.
It was just something about that little tiny thumbnail face that just seemed right-it seemed ‘Arya-ish.’ It looked like she was seven, but she was 12 years old going on seven. Then we were sitting in this hotel lobby-like the one place that we could get wireless-and we’re looking at the casting videos and there was a little thumbnail of Maisie Williams.
I remember Dan and I were in Morocco scouting locations, and we could not find an Arya (Stark.) We probably looked at 300 different young girls in England and we could not find the right Arya. So it was tricky casting people and hoping that they would blossom into the women that they’ve become. But we knew that if we kept going, if the show endured for a couple of years, it was going to an extremely dark place. I think casting the Starks were tough ones, particularly because they started so young. The only two people that we knew we wanted were Peter and John (Bradley who plays Samwell Tarly). Benioff: Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) definitely said yes first.
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