Game of Thrones Digest 6.26.15

June 26, 2015
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The Cutthroat World of Nude Extra Work

Moviepilot got a hold of a casting notice for a male extra in the famous Walk of Shame from the season five finale, and while the compensation is quite handsome at £900 (a hair over $1400), it required a bananas time frame in which the work needed to be completed.

It can be seen from the text that the actor has to be in a plane to Croatia, a day after the e-mail was sent, and that he should be somewhere between 25 and 50 years old.

Namely, the producers were looking for a person who was to get naked and yell: "I'm a Lannister! Suck me off!".

It has been also specified that the person should not have trouble with self confidence and taking his clothes off in front of a crowd. The actor should not have had any anomalies, nor piercings, while having pubic hair is desirable.

Meet Rebecca Van Cleave, Cersei's Nude Body Double

We didn't know much about Lena Headey's nude body double, other than the fact that she's got a smoking hot body, but thanks to an interview with Entertainment Weekly, we're finding out all about Rebecca Van Cleave.

“It was one of the scariest, most wonderful, most gratifying experiences I could have imagined,” Van Cleave tells EW. “I never in a million years would have thought I would be in Dubrovnik surrounded by hundreds of extras and crew members throwing food at me, but it was amazing.”

Headey would walk Van Cleave through each shot, giving step-by-step insight into Cersei’s mindset. “Lena was so good about walking beside me and guiding me into what Cersei was thinking and the movements,” Van Cleave says. “We were playing tag team — ‘You’re it!’ — and trying to make light of the fact we’re all covered in everything and going through this together.”

As for what it was like to march naked through 500 screaming extras hurling food, liquid, and derogatory terms, Van Cleave says, “The first time I took off the robe there was all this anticipation building up to it. But it’s such an emotional experience for Cersei, you almost check out of the fact that you’re nude. You’re so in touch with the scene and what you’re going for.”

Yet there were some rough moments, too. “Particularly moments when I got all kinds of stuff thrown at me, with the chamber pots [being dumped out],” Van Cleave says. “Then on the last day, there was a well of emotion when she’s finally getting to the end and I was getting to the end too—not in a bad way, it’s almost like being one with the character.”

Russian Lawmaker Declares GOT a Threat To Traditional Values

Perhaps the only civilized country with a more backwards sense of morality than the U.S. is Russia, and according to rt.com, a pro-Christian St. Petersburg city legislator named Vitaliy Milonov sees the show as just another downfall of these so-called "traditional values" that right wing lunatics love to yell about. Milonov's most famous piece of legislation to date was one which "bans promoting homosexuality to minors," whatever the fuck that means.

In comments with Izvestia, Milonov said that virtually all Western cultural products were destructive for Russian traditional values and this especially applied to many famous works.

“They are infusing all quality works with certain ideological content. This content is not crucial for the main idea of the work, because this would make it too direct, but still they demonstrate that the ideas that had once been inadmissible are now normal.”

He added that such an approach prevented creative works from being listed as propaganda as the main influence was on the subconscious level. “Freedom of expression is just a flashy label that conceals the cancerogenic ideological additives,” Milonov said.

The lawmaker said that the cult US television series Game of Thrones was a typical example of such a harmful product. He blamed the authors for picturing “every tenth character” of the series as having some sexual deviation and suggested this was done on purpose, so that the public saw such deviations as the norm.