Game of Thrones Star Spills the Tea on Show's Awful Working Conditions

Summary:

• • Many Game of Thrones scenes were filmed in Northern Ireland, where the weather is often cold and rainy.
• • According to Carice van Houten, the conditions on the set were poor, with small trailers and bad food.
• • In addition, the actors had to ask permission to go to the bathroom because the costumes took a long time to take off and put on.

Northern Ireland is so picturesque that the creators of Game of Thrones filmed there Winterfell, the Kingsroad and the Stormlands at the same time. And in season five, the sets for Castle Black and Hardhome were built there.

Many of The GoT Scenes Were Filmed in Northern Ireland

The nature of Northern Ireland, the seaside and the ruins seem to have been made especially for the heroic epic. In the dark, when it's always raining in the gloomy fall it seems that nature itself makes you want to stab, kill or strangle someone.

Thanks to Game of Thrones, Northern Ireland has become an iconic place of pilgrimage for fans. The tourism industry and the Irish economy as a whole have made millions from the movie. The vast expanses of Belfast and Dublin offer plenty of location tours, with a final cardboard sword fight for dessert.

GoT Working Conditions Were Unbearable, According to Carice van Houten

If you thought that under such conditions the actors of one of the most expensive TV show of our time would be comfortable, you would be wrong. Actress Carice van Houten, who played the role of Melisande, revealed in a podcast that she suffered on the set of Game of Thrones.

According to the actress, she had to get up at 4 a.m. and go to her small trailer, the size of a dollhouse, with a shabby couch that was so small you couldn't even lie down on it. After that, the actors would have breakfast, which, according to the actress' descriptions, looked more like The Blob from the 1958 movie The Blob.

The podcast host recalled that Carice even sent her a photo of her breakfast – a box full of rainwater with bags of sandwiches floating in it. Well, not the kind of sight you'd expect to see on the set of something as big as Game of Thrones.

In addition, the actors had to ask permission to go to the bathroom. Melisandre always wore a tight-fitting dress with several layers of thermal underwear underneath, and the dress itself was hemmed on the actress. So in order to do some delicate things that are necessary for all the people on the planet, one had to spend a lot of time, which was not always an option during filming.

Which one of you just abandoned their dream of becoming an actor?

Source: Carice & Halina