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Ghost was originally voiced by Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage, whose flat, monotone delivery became so widely mocked that fans nicknamed the character 'Dinklebot.' The nickname spread quickly online even during the alpha test, before the full game had released.
Witcher 3 has more than one nod to Game of Thrones scattered through Skellige and Novigrad. A secondary quest even borrows its title, A Feast for Crows, straight from George R. R. Martin's fourth book in the series.
During the big Winterfell feast in the season 8 episode 'The Last of the Starks', someone left a modern takeaway cup sitting right next to Daenerys on the table. It went viral within minutes, and HBO ended up cheekily tweeting that Dany had 'ordered an herbal tea' before quietly editing the cup out of future streams and broadcasts.
Peter Vaughan, who played the ancient, sightless Maester Aemon from season one through five, wasn't just acting the part. His eyesight had genuinely deteriorated badly by the time he took the role in 2011, so a lot of what looked like great performance choices were simply him navigating the world as he actually experienced it.
When Sansa's direwolf Lady was put down in season one, it wasn't just a sad moment for viewers. Sophie Turner had grown so attached to the dog playing her, a Northern Inuit named Zunni, that once filming wrapped she found out Zunni was up for adoption and took her home for good.
By the time season 7 rolled around, the production was so paranoid about paparazzi and set leaks that Kit Harington ended up shooting entirely fake scenes just to throw people off. He told Jimmy Kimmel he filmed three of these decoy scenes, each one taking around five hours, purely for the moments the crew knew they were being watched from a distance.
Conleth Hill played the eunuch spymaster Varys, but he wasn't the only Hill on the crew. His brother Roland worked behind the scenes on the show's sound design and racked up three Emmy wins for it as production sound mixer, which is a pretty good family double act for a series about secrets and whispers.
Off camera, Diana Rigg who played the sharp-tongued Lady Olenna Tyrell apparently had the same razor wit at word games as she did delivering her lines. Natalie Dormer, who played Margaery, warned people not to bother challenging her to Scrabble or Words With Friends because she'd win every single time.
Before he became Jamie Fraser on Outlander, Sam Heughan actually tried out for a part on Game of Thrones. He's spoken about auditioning early on, though obviously the role went a different direction and he went on to lead his own big fantasy drama instead.
Kit Harington once got pulled over for speeding, and when the officer recognised him as Jon Snow, he was offered a deal: reveal whether Jon lives or dies and skip the ticket. Kit apparently took him up on it, which might be the most Westeros way anyone has ever talked their way out of a fine.
