{"id":6622,"date":"2020-10-26T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:26:35","slug":"the-wedding-guest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/10\/26\/the-wedding-guest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another peek at the past, and the original pilot for GAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p>We shot the wedding of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo in Morocco.\u00a0\u00a0 Ian McNeice played Illyrio Mopatis, a magister of Pentos, and I played one of the wedding guests, presumably another magister.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6623\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wedding-1024x863.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wedding-1024x863.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wedding-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wedding-768x647.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wedding-1536x1295.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wedding-2048x1727.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both of us, alas, were left on the cutting room floor when Dany was recast and the wedding was reshot.\u00a0\u00a0 Ian McNeice was terrific as Illyrio, by the way, but a scheduling conflict made him unavailable for the reshoot.<\/p>\n<p>I never did find time to do another cameo, but I suspect the show was better for it.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to see me do a cameo, I did two for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in the 80s, and more recently had my brilliant turns in SHARKNADO 3 and Z NATION.\u00a0 I made a swell zombie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another peek at the past, and the original pilot for GAME OF THRONES. We shot the wedding of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo in Morocco.\u00a0\u00a0 Ian McNeice played Illyrio Mopatis, a magister of Pentos, and I played one of the wedding guests, presumably another magister. Both of us, alas, were left on the cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}