Inside HBO's Game of Thrones by C. A. Taylor

Author:C. A. Taylor [C. A. Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2014-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

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A moment of peace for the Stark family.

DAVID NUTTER (DIRECTOR): Toward the end of season two, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] started to whisper in my ear about being involved with the Red Wedding. I had deliberately not read the books. I wanted to be led by the scripts when it came to storytelling, and I didn’t want to get ahead of myself. Once I had agreed to be involved, I started to read about it, to get a sense of the sequence. Then, this weight appeared above my head, and I had all this trepidation and nervousness for about nine months before we even started on it. My initial feeling was simply fear. When the scripts arrived, that’s when it became about breaking down how it was going to work.

Meeting Walder Frey initially, that scene was pretty clear-cut for me, as was the wedding—but the feast, well, that was more complicated. It was important for me, like a coach at a football game, to figure out what all the plays were going to be and how best to manipulate that. Where the characters were going to be and the interactions: Robb and Talisa and Catelyn watching them, where was Walder and Lothar Frey, and the importance of Roose Bolton. I sat down with [production designer] Gemma Jackson to discuss the sets, how the tables should be. That, to me, once I could get that figured out, was one of the biggest challenges. It was written so very well. It had to be joyous and raucous, but there also had to be a sense of ease—finally something nice is going to happen. It was so important to have that lull, with Robb and Talisa talking about their baby and Catelyn starting to see that and thinking they are going to be all right before the tables are turned.

It was very important to me that it was shot in sequence. I come from a musical background, and in a way this is like a piece of music. It was key that we had very little wasted time. I wanted to shoot it in sequence so the actors could give it their all, that there would be no holding back in those final moments.

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