Who is your favourite actor that you think makes the entire series?
Personally from season 1-7 it was the dwarf, this season I liked the Dragons.
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Peter Dinklage (Tyrion), who is able to establish a connection with every actor he shares scenes with. His scene partners, in turn, react off him, and the moments really come alive.
For very similar reasons:
Conleth Hill (Varys) and Charles Dance (Tywin), Pedro Pascal (Oberyn)
For pure investment in the role, and making me enjoy believing with them:
Maisie Williams (Arya), Aiden Gillen (Littlefinger), Lena Headley (Cersei), Gwendoline Christie (Brienne) and both Jerome Flynn (Bronn) and Rory McCann (the Hound). And extending this to the sheer courage needed to inhabit human monsters:
Raymond Griffiths (Joffrey) (I never cottoned much toward Ramsay)
Because she's Diana Rigg! Diana Rigg! Oh, how she enjoyed her role, and oh, how she brought that woman to life!
Oh, and James Faulkner, because I kept staring at that name in his last episode, wondering why it was so familiar, and then Googled him to realize he was Herod in "I, Claudius", which led me to use up a whole night re-watching sections of what was basically the "Game of Thrones" of its time.
Yes, the actors. Although a CGI dragon counts, LOL.
shareOh, if we're counting dragons, then, Drogon is top ten - they gave him a great range of movement and expression considering he's a huge winged lizard (I really want one. I get cold easily). The Jon scene where Drogon closed his eyes while being stroked was sweetly catlike. They do a slow blink when contented with their human servants.
Nymeria goes onto my list too. And much as I protest what happened to poor Viscerion (sp), that last scene was impressive.
I was actually sad when he slipped into the water.
shareMe too. I didn't want anything to happen to any of the dragons, and I certainly didn't want any of them taken from Dany. In my heart of hearts, I want, when they all meet up again, for Viserion's Targaryean sense to spark at the sight of his mother, and that he'll make the Night King sorry he ever thought of mounting a dragon.
shareI agree with your list, but I would add Stephen Dillane, Sean Bean and Natalie Dormer, and would strike Jerome Flynn and Lena Headley.
Flynn's character is a lot of fun but the role doesn't require a huge acting range or much subtlety. Headley's Cersei is nails-on-chalkboard to me at this point. Her expression just alternates between "distaste" and "fury" repeatedly; it's predictable and very boring.
I came in to the show very, very late -- season six! So my list is based on season six and seven plus snippets from YouTube and occasional accidental landings on reruns. So I'll take your word on the always wonderful Sean Bean. I'm much less well acquainted with Stephen Dillaine, and missed a lot of Dormer (I've seen and liked her in "Elementary".) Headley isn't old hat to me as of yet; I'm seeing her embrace a difficult character, though I may feel differently if I go for a crash week of watching the whole series at some point.
I forgot to include Jonathan Pryce, who made a wonderful and scary Sparrow (would have loved to have seen him match up with Charles Dance). He was equally lovely as a vulnerable Mr. Bronte earlier this year.
Wow, so you have a lot of undiscovered GoT in your future. I'm jealous!
I agree that Jonathan Pryce was great. He was just perfect for the role. We were robbed of Dance vs Pryce, but we did get Diana Rigg vs Pryce, which was near as good.
Agreed, that was a terrific scene....too short!
Weren't both Rigg and Pryce in a movie called something like "Theatre of Blood", where Vincent Price played a seriously demented actor getting back at his critics?
I could rewatch GOT five more times easy...the whole thing. : )
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