# Game of Thrones - A List Hollywood Casting **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057 "2014-05-09T15:59:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/21 "2014-05-13T11:12:06Z")
Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans as the Cleganes. Emma Stone as Sansa. Sean Bean as Ned. Don Cheadle as Davos’ pirate friend (I forget his name). John McGinley as Littlefinger. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/22 "2014-05-13T12:08:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Has anybody watched THE WRITERS ROOM? The show riders said that Jamie was the hardest role to cast because anybody who is as good looking, as good at combat, as good an actor as needed, and old enough for the role was probably already working full time if not A list and thus either too expensive or unavailable. That’s why they went with a Danish actor, whose career since his exposure on the show has exploded. Its not like they snatched him out of Danish dinner theater. He was already working in Hollywood. He was the star of his own American network TV show (_New Amsterdam_). I liked his show and was sorry to see it cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/23 "2014-05-13T12:22:35Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Its not like they snatched him out of Danish dinner theater. He was already working in Hollywood. He was the star of his own American network TV show (_New Amsterdam_). I liked his show and was sorry to see it cancelled. Oh yeah! I thought I recognized Jaime from ER but that’s a totally different guy (I was thinking of the Serbian-- or Bosnian-- actor who was the other hot guy that wasn’t Noah Wiley). I liked New Amsterdam too. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/24 "2014-05-13T12:25:54Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Maybe Liam could play Stannis Baratheon? I could buy him as the stiff-necked jerkass who can’t believe nobody wants him as king. I’d see Tchéky Karyo as Stannis, myself. He’s only got one persona : antisocial, bitter, bored-out-of-his-skull guy who can’t believe whoever’s speaking to him was \*dumb \*enough to say what they just said. Then goes on an exasperated rant. That’s pure Stannis. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/25 "2014-05-13T12:51:11Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans as the Cleganes. Or even just Chris and Liam Hemsworth, for the real-life-brothers congruity. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/26 "2014-05-13T13:06:36Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I don’t think you guys are properly channeling Hollywood casting directors: > > Seth Rogen IS whoever the hell it was Sean Bean was playing! > Jack Black is Robert Baratheon! > Zach Galliafanakis IS John Snow! > Gwyneth Paltrow IS Cersei! > Lindsay Lohan IS Daenerys Targeyran or whatever the hell that last name is! > Carrot Top IS the Hound! > Joan Rivers IS whoever the hell Diana Rigg thought she was playing! > Danny DeVito IS Tyrion Lannister! > Andy Dick IS Joffrey Lannister! > Rihanna IS Sansa Stark! > Miley Cyrus IS Arya Stark! > Burt Reynolds IS Tywin Lannister! > > Hey, did I mention that I AM Spartacus? This IS brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/27 "2014-05-13T19:24:42Z")
Julian Sands or Ralph Fiennes are the only other actors I could see playing Tywin (Sands would have made a lovely Jaime, in his youth). ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/28 "2014-05-13T19:31:46Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I’d make Daniel Craig Stannis. I’d make him Roose Bolton. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/29 "2014-05-13T19:50:44Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > There has to be a role for Nicolas Cage, although I’m darned if I know what it is. Hodor Declan ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/30 "2014-05-13T21:53:00Z")
Michael Fassbender or Dominic West as Jaime Charleze Theron would make a good Cersie Gary Oldman as…well anyone. He could be in the show already and I wouldn’t recognize him. He’s that damn good. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/31 "2014-05-14T20:50:37Z")
Stannis is and always will be Jeremy Irons. It is known. Not sure if he’s A list or whatever, but he’s Stannis. Period. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057/32 "2014-05-14T21:17:29Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Hodor > > Declan Worst part of that idea is that we all know he would accept the role. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-a-list-hollywood-casting/688057.md?page=1)