Friday, 4 March 2016

The Stark kids are doing quite well (off screen).

Accompanying the previous article just a quick thought that went through my mind. The Game of Thrones Stark kids are doing quite well in other projects. I mean, in the show none of them are having the greatest times of their lives. Two are currently dead, one is blind, one is crippled in a cave with a creepy tree-dude, one got castrated and more, one keeps on meeting abusive boyfriends and one has been gone for two seasons. Happy times.
But the actors are making quite the careers for themselves.

Sophie Turner has been bombarded as the new Jean Grey in the upcoming X-men movie. Hopefully with some nice telekinetic schizophrenia, because Jean Grey only became truly interesting when she started to become Phoenix.

Maisie Williams did an inspiring one-woman show in Cyberbully, single-handedly pissed off Doctor Who and she’s going to kill zombie-things in the upcoming adaptation of The last of us. Still, I hope she finds the time to try a bit of stand-up comedy because she's hilarious in interviews.

Art Parkinson just survived an earthquake in San Francisco and he is Dracula's son - how many people can say that? Later this year he’ll follow his onscreen brother in another Laika production. Plus in the next season he is still shacking up with Tonks (I mean Natalia Tena). Lucky bastard.

Isaac Hempstead Wright is lacking a bit doing only a voice in Laika's The Boxtrolls. Who knows, maybe school comes first.

Richard Madden got the red wedding of his chest by becoming a rather charming prince charming in Cinderella. Finally a wedding that went right. And he’s been working nicely in Klondike and other projects.

Alfie Allen, repeated his I'm-a-bad-guy-but-can't-really-handle-the-consequences routine in the surprisingly effective John Wick. And his upcoming movie is called Pandemic –I don't know what that's going to be about but I can guess.

And Kit Harrington, finally, is still continuing his quest to broaden his horizon with comedy (Seven days in hell) and spy-action (Spooks). As long as he picks betters scripts than Silent Hill 2 and Pompeii he could go far.
And yes- dear chap- I can't wait for you to cut your hair. But remember if you do follow in Josh Holloway's (Sawyer in Lost) -footprints the next part you are going to get is five minutes and then you die in the next Mission Impossible. But then again, you're Jon Snow, you can't die.

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