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17 Things You Never Knew About Game of Thrones

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17 Things You Never Knew About Game of Thrones

May 10, 2016 by Maggie Panos

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While Joffrey looks strikingly similar to the callous Roman ruler Caligula, Jack Gleeson has said that his performance is inspired by Joaquin Phoenix's character in Gladiator.
Remember the first time we meet Tywin Lannister? He's dressing a stag on camera, and in reality, actor Charles Dance learned the real procedure from a butcher the day before. "The next day, they gave me another dead animal, and we shot it," he said. "It was a bloody good time, but it took me two days to get the smell off my hands."
Speaking of Tywin, in the series, his late wife is named Joanna and they have three children. In real life, Dance's ex-wife is named Joanna, and he has three children (two by Joanna, and one with his ex-fiancé).
In the books, Daenerys has purple eyes. It was revealed on Blu-ray extras for the first season that this was originally the plan for the series, as well, but Emilia Clarke found the contacts so uncomfortable that they ultimately ditched them. (If only poor Maisie Williams had the luxury . . . )

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