{"id":3328,"date":"2009-10-21T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2017-09-22T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T14:01:05","slug":"a-pair-of-starks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2009\/10\/21\/a-pair-of-starks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair of Starks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest parts to cast was Bran.  When the story opens he&#8217;s a cute kid, off to see a man beheaded for the first time.  But after that&#8230; think of all the challenges that await the boy in this role.  We think we&#8217;ve found a young actor capable of handling them, however.  His name is Isaac Hempstead-Wright.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00076qb2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/00076qb2\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My clues for this one are pretty self-explanatory.  Hempstead is a town in Nassau, and Isaac was the Biblical sacrifice (not really, of course, Yahweh was just joking around).  All the same, I was astonished when some of you managed to puzzle them out.  Isaac is a bright young talent and he gave a great reading, but I figured he was google-proof.  Not so.  I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing him bring Bran to life.<\/p>\n<p>Also cast, as his uncle and Lord Eddard&#8217;s younger brother Benjen, a ranger of the Night&#8217;s Watch, is Joseph Mawle.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00077y6r\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/00077y6r\" width=\"102\" height=\"124\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00078zr3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/00078zr3\" width=\"108\" height=\"81\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another fast-rising British actor, Mawle has portrayed both Jesus and Judas, starred in a film called FREEFALL, and began his acting career at the Tobacco Factory Theater.  Check out his showreel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephmawle.com\/main.html\">http:\/\/www.josephmawle.com\/main.html<\/a> for a sample of his talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest parts to cast was Bran. When the story opens he&#8217;s a cute kid, off to see a man beheaded for the first time. But after that&#8230; think of all the challenges that await the boy in this role. We think we&#8217;ve found a young actor capable of handling them, however. His [&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":[256,15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328"}],"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=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}