{"id":2858,"date":"2010-10-04T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:45:10","slug":"two-for-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/10\/04\/two-for-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Two for the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Froggy would like to hint around with you madmen some more, but Andy is too damn tired right now.  It&#8217;s less than a week before I fly off to Ireland, and I&#8217;m still exhausted from the long trip to Australia&#8230; so I will forgo the games this time around and just tell you straight out that David &#038; Dan and HB0 have filled two more roles for GAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p>The part of Hot Pie will be played by a newcomer named BEN HAWKEY.  And as Lommy Greenhands, we will have EROS VLAHOS, best known for his role in the &#8220;Nanny McPhee&#8221; movies.<\/p>\n<p>BEN HAWKEY<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000d49qg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240215\" width=\"320\" height=\"189\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hear some of the purists pointing out that Lommy and Hot Pie don&#8217;t actually appear in the first novel.  You&#8217;re not wrong.  In the books, they don&#8217;t appear until the first Arya chapter of A CLASH OF KINGS&#8230; but they&#8217;ll be in season one, looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Other announcements should be coming soon, though it&#8217;s not likely that I&#8217;ll be the one making them.  I&#8217;ll be packing or flying to Ireland, and afterwards to Malta.  We&#8217;ve very close to naming actors for the roles of Stiv and Ser Meryn Trant, waiting only HBO approval, and Nina and D&#038;D have been looking at Kevan Lannisters as well.  Soon, I think&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Froggy would like to hint around with you madmen some more, but Andy is too damn tired right now. It&#8217;s less than a week before I fly off to Ireland, and I&#8217;m still exhausted from the long trip to Australia&#8230; so I will forgo the games this time around and just tell you straight out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}