“Game of Thrones” actress Natalie Dormer didn’t always want to play Margaery Tyrell on the hit HBO series.
During an appearance on “The Jonathan Ross Show” (via Winter is Coming), Dormer admitted she went in to audition for a “POV” character, but didn’t get the role.
“The story of that,” she began, “is I went in to audition for another role and I’ve never told anyone what that other role and I won’t tell anyone while we’re still shooting the show.”
Dormer explained she had to “flesh out” her character through they way other POV characters looked at her, like Sansa and Cersei. She also had to do her best to interpret how Margaery would’ve handled seducing a young Tommen Baratheon to get him on her side.
“It wasn’t as ambiguous and I was like ‘we need to talk about this’ and for a woman just to throw her sensuality, her sexuality at a young male is just so on the nose and so obvious and the last thing Margaery Tyrell is is obvious, she’s far more skilled than that,” Dormer explained.
“Game of Thrones” is currently filming their fifth season in Seville, Spain. “A Song of Fire and Ice” author George R.R. Martin isn’t dishing any details about the saga or the next season, but he did reveal a fan theory he’s not too found of the Huffington Post.
"From my point of view, the craziest one is the people who believe that I've actually finished all of the books, and I'm just sitting on them for some reason in order to get more money or increase the value, you know, to release them at an appropriate point," Martin said. "That's a pretty crazy one, but there seem to be people who actually believe that."
