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Diana Rigg, Star of Game of Thrones and Bond Girl, Dies at 82 - IGN
Diana Rigg, who played Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones and Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, has died aged 82.
Diana Rigg, Star of Game of Thrones and Bond Girl, Dies at 82
"Flinty, fearless, fabulous. There will never be another. RIP"
By Joe Skrebels
Updated: 10 Sep 2020 10:36 am
Posted: 10 Sep 2020 10:01 am
Dame Diana Rigg, who played Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thronesand Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service among many other roles, has died aged 82.
As announced by her agent today, Rigg "died peacefully early this morning. She was at home with her family who have asked for privacy at this difficult time."
Rigg rose to fame in the UK during the 1960s, playing Emma Peel in spy series The Avengers. She rose to world prominence later that decade, as she played the ill-fated Tracy Bond - the only Bond girl to marry James Bond - in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
In recent years, she became best-known for playing Lady Olenna Tyrell, the 'Queen of Thorns', in the latter seasons of Game of Thrones. Lady Olenna became a fan-favourite, not least because of her barbed one-liners(of which you can see a selection in the gallery below).
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Rigg also played herself in an episode of Ricky Gervais' Extras, Lady Neville in Andy Serkis' directorial debut, Breathe, and Mrs. Winifred Gillyflower in Doctor Who episode, 'The Crimson Horror'.
In 1994, Rigg was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
'Crimson Horror' and Sherlock writer Mark Gatiss wrote on Twitter that Rigg was "Flinty, fearless, fabulous. There will never be another. RIP". Fellow Game of Thrones actor Tony Way (Ser Dontos Hollard) wrote, "A true icon. I met her a couple of times on Game of Thrones. I played Backgammon with her once. She called me a c**t for beating her. She was fantastic."
Bond movie producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli provided a joint statement: "We are very sad to hear of the passing of Dame Diana Rigg, the legendary stage and screen actress who was much beloved by Bond fans for her memorable performance as Tracy di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the only woman to have married James Bond. Our love and thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time."Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.
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Actress Dame Diana Rigg, famous for roles including Emma Peel in TV series The Avengers and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 82.
Her daughter, actress Rachael Stirling, said she died of cancer, after being diagnosed in March.
"She spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter and a deep pride in her profession," she added.
Dame Diana also played the only woman who became Mrs James Bond.
She played Tracy, who married George Lazenby's 007 in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Lazenby said he was "so sad" to hear of her death, while Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli also paid tribute
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The first reason they wouldn’t get into the specifics of, because it would be a spoiler for Martin’s last two books. The last time Lady Stoneheart was seen she was demanding Brienne kill Jaime Lannister. Those two might have very, very different fates in the books than they did on the show.
The second reason had to do with Jon Snow. Benioff and Weiss long knew they’d be bringing the Lord Commander back from the dead and they didn’t want to lessen the impact or shock of that moment by bringing back another major character too.
Finally, they thought bringing back Fairley for a primarily non-speaking role would not be fair to her or her great final scene. They didn’t want to retroactively lessen the impact of the iconic Red Wedding’s last moment, one of the best in the show’s run.
Martin disagreed with their decision to exclude her, and a lot of book readers still do. The Red Wedding is even more devastating in the books, and Lady Stoneheart’s shocking return doesn’t change that. Also, the character is fascinating and offers so much promise for amazing future plot twists. And Michelle Fairley, whose onscreen rage was incredible, could have excelled in the role.
So while Benioff and Weiss had their logical, defensible reasons for not including her, that doesn’t mean they were right.
Game of Thrones showrunners explain why Lady Stoneheart wasn't in the show
Exclusive: Benioff and Weiss give 3 reasons why a fan favorite from George R.R. Martin's books didn't make the cut.
By James Hibberd
September 23, 2020 at 11:15 AM EDT
It’s one of the biggest questions fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga have had over the years: Why didn’t Lady Stoneheart ever show up in Game of Thrones?
In my upcoming book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon — the behind-the-scene tale of making Thrones from its earliest meetings to the airing of the series finale — showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss break their silence on why they left a fan-favorite book character out of the series.
Spoiler alert for those who haven’t read Martin’s novels: Lady Stoneheart is a resurrected and vengeful Catelyn Stark, who was murdered at the Red Wedding during the show’s third season. She makes two appearances in the books. The first is her shock reveal at the end of A Storm of Swords. The second is in A Feast for Crows, where Brienne of Tarth is taken captive by the Brotherhood Without Banners and brought before Lady Stoneheart, their leader, who accuses her of serving the Lannisters and orders her to kill Jaime Lannister. Lady Stoneheart's role in the books beyond this is not yet clear as there are two more novels yet to be published.
“There was never really much debate about [including Lady Stoneheart],” Benioff says in Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon. “There is that one great scene.”
“That was the only debate,” Weiss says. “The scene where she first shows up is one of the best ‘holy s---’ moments in the books. I think that scene is where the public response came from. But then...”
So, there are three reasons.
The first remains a bit vague because it involves what Martin has secretly planned for Lady Stoneheart in his story lines vs. the show’s story lines.
“Part of the reason we didn’t want to put it in had to do with things coming up in George’s books that we don’t want to spoil [by discussing them],” Benioff says. Given the way the story line leff off, the most obvious assumption is that this is something involving Brienne and/or Jaime, though that's far from certain.
The second reason was that even when writing season 3, the duo knew they were planning a major death and resurrection across seasons 5 and 6, and wanted it to be as shocking and suspenseful as possible. “We knew we had Jon Snow’s resurrection coming up,” Benioff says. “Too many resurrections start to diminish the impact of characters dying. We wanted to keep our powder dry for that.”
The third reason was that the Red Wedding was one of the show’s most powerful moments, a dramatic home run as executed by director David Nutter and the show’s cast that had exactly the impact that the team had long hoped.
The showrunners felt bringing back a form of Catelyn Stark might weaken what was accomplished by the scene, and that a silent undead version of Catelyn seemed beneath the dignity of actress Michelle Fairley — who was already supernaturally haunting as a doomed human in her final minutes. “Catelyn’s last moment was so fantastic, and Michelle is such a great actress, to bring her back as a zombie who doesn’t speak felt like diminishing returns,” Benioff says.
In sum: The showrunners felt the Red Wedding was the most powerful possible finish for Catelyn (and Fairley), and didn’t want to play the resurrection card too many times like other shows and movies have done, and were going off insider knowledge of upcoming story lines in Martin’s books that conflicted with what they had planned for the show.
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Exclusive: Benioff and Weiss give 3 reasons why a fan favorite from George R.R. Martin's books didn't make the cut.
By James Hibberd
September 23, 2020 at 11:15 AM EDT
It’s one of the biggest questions fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga have had over the years: Why didn’t Lady Stoneheart ever show up in Game of Thrones?
In my upcoming book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon — the behind-the-scene tale of making Thrones from its earliest meetings to the airing of the series finale — showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss break their silence on why they left a fan-favorite book character out of the series.
Spoiler alert for those who haven’t read Martin’s novels: Lady Stoneheart is a resurrected and vengeful Catelyn Stark, who was murdered at the Red Wedding during the show’s third season. She makes two appearances in the books. The first is her shock reveal at the end of A Storm of Swords. The second is in A Feast for Crows, where Brienne of Tarth is taken captive by the Brotherhood Without Banners and brought before Lady Stoneheart, their leader, who accuses her of serving the Lannisters and orders her to kill Jaime Lannister. Lady Stoneheart's role in the books beyond this is not yet clear as there are two more novels yet to be published.
“There was never really much debate about [including Lady Stoneheart],” Benioff says in Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon. “There is that one great scene.”
“That was the only debate,” Weiss says. “The scene where she first shows up is one of the best ‘holy s---’ moments in the books. I think that scene is where the public response came from. But then...”
So, there are three reasons.
The first remains a bit vague because it involves what Martin has secretly planned for Lady Stoneheart in his story lines vs. the show’s story lines.
“Part of the reason we didn’t want to put it in had to do with things coming up in George’s books that we don’t want to spoil [by discussing them],” Benioff says. Given the way the story line leff off, the most obvious assumption is that this is something involving Brienne and/or Jaime, though that's far from certain.
The second reason was that even when writing season 3, the duo knew they were planning a major death and resurrection across seasons 5 and 6, and wanted it to be as shocking and suspenseful as possible. “We knew we had Jon Snow’s resurrection coming up,” Benioff says. “Too many resurrections start to diminish the impact of characters dying. We wanted to keep our powder dry for that.”
The third reason was that the Red Wedding was one of the show’s most powerful moments, a dramatic home run as executed by director David Nutter and the show’s cast that had exactly the impact that the team had long hoped.
The showrunners felt bringing back a form of Catelyn Stark might weaken what was accomplished by the scene, and that a silent undead version of Catelyn seemed beneath the dignity of actress Michelle Fairley — who was already supernaturally haunting as a doomed human in her final minutes. “Catelyn’s last moment was so fantastic, and Michelle is such a great actress, to bring her back as a zombie who doesn’t speak felt like diminishing returns,” Benioff says.
In sum: The showrunners felt the Red Wedding was the most powerful possible finish for Catelyn (and Fairley), and didn’t want to play the resurrection card too many times like other shows and movies have done, and were going off insider knowledge of upcoming story lines in Martin’s books that conflicted with what they had planned for the show.
As for Martin, the author said he pushed for the inclusion of the character and had his reasons for doing so. “Lady Stoneheart has a role in the books," the author says. "Whether it’s sufficient or interesting enough. I think it is or I wouldn’t have put her in. One of the things I wanted to show with her is that the death she suffered changes you.” In an interview with Esquire China, Martin once noted: “In the sixth book, I still continue to write her. She is an important character in the set of books. [Keeping her character] is the change I most wish I could make in the [show].”
'Game of Thrones' showrunners finally explain why Lady Stoneheart wasn't in the show
Benioff and Weiss break years of silence on the subject to give 3 reasons why a favorite character from George R.R. Martin's books never showed up.
Interesting. I always thought of her as being kind of a light weight counterbalance to all the winning Team Lannister/Frey/Bolton was achieving after the red wedding. I think the last we saw of her in the books was her about to hang Brienne and Pod until Brienne says something about one of Cat's daughters.
I guess she could continue to play that role til Arya pops back up in Westeros.
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Paddy Considine Takes the Throne as Viserys Targaryen in HBO’s GoT Prequel House of the Dragon
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: Getty Images
We’d say congratulations to actor Paddy Considine on his new role as King Viserys Targaryen in HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, but seeing what normally happens when a Targaryen assumes power, we’ll just wish him good luck instead. According to Entertainment Weekly, the actor is the first official cast member to join the show, which takes place three hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones and seeds much of the mythology invoked in the now-concluded HBO series.
In addition to appearing as unlucky strip club bouncer Claude Bolton in the network’s Stephen King miniseries The Outsider, you likely remember the British actor from movies like Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, The Bourne Ultimatum, or The Death of Stalin, or recognize his work in series three of Peaky Blinders and the recently-released The Third Day. The BAFTA Award-winner was also nominated for the 2019 Best Actor in a Play Tony for The Ferryman.
You may already know Viserys’s fate if you’ve read George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, but for those of us who haven’t, EW says of his character, “King Viserys Targaryen is chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal. A warm, kind, and decent man, Viserys only wishes to carry forward his grandfather’s legacy. But good men do not necessarily make for great kings.” In other words, good luck out there, Your Highness. You’re going to need it.
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer
Photo: Getty Images
We’d say congratulations to actor Paddy Considine on his new role as King Viserys Targaryen in HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, but seeing what normally happens when a Targaryen assumes power, we’ll just wish him good luck instead. According to Entertainment Weekly, the actor is the first official cast member to join the show, which takes place three hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones and seeds much of the mythology invoked in the now-concluded HBO series.
In addition to appearing as unlucky strip club bouncer Claude Bolton in the network’s Stephen King miniseries The Outsider, you likely remember the British actor from movies like Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, The Bourne Ultimatum, or The Death of Stalin, or recognize his work in series three of Peaky Blinders and the recently-released The Third Day. The BAFTA Award-winner was also nominated for the 2019 Best Actor in a Play Tony for The Ferryman.
You may already know Viserys’s fate if you’ve read George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, but for those of us who haven’t, EW says of his character, “King Viserys Targaryen is chosen by the lords of Westeros to succeed the Old King, Jaehaerys Targaryen, at the Great Council at Harrenhal. A warm, kind, and decent man, Viserys only wishes to carry forward his grandfather’s legacy. But good men do not necessarily make for great kings.” In other words, good luck out there, Your Highness. You’re going to need it.
The 'Game of Thrones' Season Eight Script Explains Why Drogon Burned the Iron Throne
Turns out he didn't stupidly believe the sharp sword chair stabbed Daenerys.
The Game of Thrones Season Eight Script Explains Why Drogon Burned the Iron Throne
Turns out he didn't stupidly believe the sharp sword chair stabbed Daenerys.
By Matt Miller
Aug 1, 2019
HBO
You don't need me to remind you that the final season of Game of Thrones was bad. Very bad! While most fans have likely calmed down after the disappointing conclusion to one of the biggest TV shows of all time, there are still some lingering questions that have not been answered. We don't know where Arya went, we don't know what the hell happened to Jon, we don't know if Bran become something of a Big Brother-type leader with his all-seeing Patriot Act powers.
But another question that's remained is, why did Drogon burn the Iron Throne when he found Jon holding Dany's dead body? One would imagine Drogon would kill, out of instinct, the man who killed his mother and torch the hell out of Jon. But he doesn't. Instead he turns and burns an inanimate object, the Iron Throne. Now, there are two theories here: One is that Drogon, a smart dragon, recognized what the Iron Throne symbolized and burned it, rebuking the desire for power that ultimately killed his mother. The other is that Drogon mistakenly thought that the pointy sword chair stabbed and killed Daenerys.
As it turns out, the answer is neither. A script from the episode released on the Emmy awards website this week reveals what Drogon's motives actually were:
So there you go, the Iron Throne just kind of got in the way of Drogon randomly breathing fire. It was an accident! It is actually fitting for the depth of thought that went into this final season, that there was really no intention behind one of the most powerful images of the series.
Oh and if you thought that maybe, just maybe, the writers also had an idea of where Drogon flew with Daenerys's body, you're wrong! As the script reads:
Cool. More reason to wait for the books.