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BY JANICE BUDD Associate Editor — Sunday [email protected]
Friday, May 11, 2012
THREE key cast members in the hit HBO cable television series Game of Thrones say they are eager to set foot on Jamaican soil.
Richard Madden (Robb Stark), Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy) all said in a recent interview with the Splash that they want to come visit this tropical isle, and that it would be a welcome respite from their months of filming in the freezing Icelandic wasteland.
The three met with a small group of reporters from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama during a 24-hour press junket in Miami recently.
A visit to Jamaica seemed to hold particular appeal for the blonde, brash Allen, who bragged he knew a little patois courtesy of a very close Jamaican friend and hanging out in reggae clubs.
He smoothly delivered the common Jamaican query, "Wha' gwan?" his accent and inflections startlingly close to authentic.
"My friend here is Jamaican, he is my mate from Liverpool. When he is with me, we sound alike, but when he gets around his family, I can't follow what they are saying at all," explained Allen with a laugh.
The versatile 26-year-old — son of famed UK musician/actor Keith Allen, and younger brother to British pop princess, Lily Allen — not only pulled off a decent Jamaican accent, but also an American one, and even a Scottish brogue.
Allen is pleased about the show's appeal across the region, attributing this to the spare-no-detail approach of HBO, and a winning trilogy that trumps geography or culture.
"People love a lot of food, a lot of sex and a lot of violence," he explained, all of which are evident in Thrones.
He isn't alone in this take, co-stars Richard Madden (Robb Stark) and Kit Harington (Jon Snow) also give HBO props for coming up with a show based in fantasy but which parallels reality in a way that appeals to all ages, sexes and nationalities.
Madden, who plays the noble son of Eddard, beheaded leader of the Stark clan, said he sees parallels between himself and the character he plays .
"Robb lives by certain rules; I try to live by certain rules. Like, don't do things to other people that you wouldn't like done to yourself... You give respect and get respect back," said Madden, looking much slimmer, shorter and paler sitting across the table in a room in the Hotel Four Seasons Miami, than his fur- and armour-encased character in Thrones.
He, too, said he dreamed of rolling down to Jamaica someday soon and soaking up the rum and the rays.
Kit Harington plays Robb Stark's bastard brother, dispatched to guard 'the Wall' — a 700 foot-high barricade of ice enclosing the show's fantasy domain of the Seven Kingdoms.
Harington says Thrones mimics real life with so many different characters with different agendas.
"It's got battles, which, you know, young men want to see. It's got romance. It covers all those bases, which hopefully makes it entertaining to watch. And then it's character-based; it appeals to lots of different people on different levels, so people can follow... There is always someone in it that people can relate to and that's what makes the show so watchable," he said.
Like his buddies, Harington said a visit to the 'Rock' is definitely on his bucket list.
"I've always wanted to go to Jamaica," he said with a chuckle. "I'd love to, it would be a break from the ice and the cold," he said, pointing to minus 30-degree temperatures at the series' primary set location in Iceland.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertain...9#ixzz1uYY8cu5l
BY JANICE BUDD Associate Editor — Sunday [email protected]
Friday, May 11, 2012
THREE key cast members in the hit HBO cable television series Game of Thrones say they are eager to set foot on Jamaican soil.
Richard Madden (Robb Stark), Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy) all said in a recent interview with the Splash that they want to come visit this tropical isle, and that it would be a welcome respite from their months of filming in the freezing Icelandic wasteland.
The three met with a small group of reporters from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama during a 24-hour press junket in Miami recently.
A visit to Jamaica seemed to hold particular appeal for the blonde, brash Allen, who bragged he knew a little patois courtesy of a very close Jamaican friend and hanging out in reggae clubs.
He smoothly delivered the common Jamaican query, "Wha' gwan?" his accent and inflections startlingly close to authentic.
"My friend here is Jamaican, he is my mate from Liverpool. When he is with me, we sound alike, but when he gets around his family, I can't follow what they are saying at all," explained Allen with a laugh.
The versatile 26-year-old — son of famed UK musician/actor Keith Allen, and younger brother to British pop princess, Lily Allen — not only pulled off a decent Jamaican accent, but also an American one, and even a Scottish brogue.
Allen is pleased about the show's appeal across the region, attributing this to the spare-no-detail approach of HBO, and a winning trilogy that trumps geography or culture.
"People love a lot of food, a lot of sex and a lot of violence," he explained, all of which are evident in Thrones.
He isn't alone in this take, co-stars Richard Madden (Robb Stark) and Kit Harington (Jon Snow) also give HBO props for coming up with a show based in fantasy but which parallels reality in a way that appeals to all ages, sexes and nationalities.
Madden, who plays the noble son of Eddard, beheaded leader of the Stark clan, said he sees parallels between himself and the character he plays .
"Robb lives by certain rules; I try to live by certain rules. Like, don't do things to other people that you wouldn't like done to yourself... You give respect and get respect back," said Madden, looking much slimmer, shorter and paler sitting across the table in a room in the Hotel Four Seasons Miami, than his fur- and armour-encased character in Thrones.
He, too, said he dreamed of rolling down to Jamaica someday soon and soaking up the rum and the rays.
Kit Harington plays Robb Stark's bastard brother, dispatched to guard 'the Wall' — a 700 foot-high barricade of ice enclosing the show's fantasy domain of the Seven Kingdoms.
Harington says Thrones mimics real life with so many different characters with different agendas.
"It's got battles, which, you know, young men want to see. It's got romance. It covers all those bases, which hopefully makes it entertaining to watch. And then it's character-based; it appeals to lots of different people on different levels, so people can follow... There is always someone in it that people can relate to and that's what makes the show so watchable," he said.
Like his buddies, Harington said a visit to the 'Rock' is definitely on his bucket list.
"I've always wanted to go to Jamaica," he said with a chuckle. "I'd love to, it would be a break from the ice and the cold," he said, pointing to minus 30-degree temperatures at the series' primary set location in Iceland.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/entertain...9#ixzz1uYY8cu5l
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