# Lily Allen turned down incestuous 'Game of Thrones' role **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954 "2014-05-21T19:19:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954/41 "2014-05-23T15:06:33Z")
It isn’t universal, though. I remember an interview with Shirley MacLaine in which she regretted never getting to do a love scene with Warren Beatty. She might not have been serious, though. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954/42 "2014-05-23T20:34:20Z")
Chyler Leigh and Christopher Khayman Lee in the umm… classic… _Kickboxing Academy_. To quote/paraphrase a in her most famous movie, they’re related “only by blood!” I’m glad that Yara doesn’t have bad mockney. “Oy! Guvnah Theon!” > [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > There is? > > Actor + actor = acting. Since gay actors play straight love roles and vice versa, and it’s all acting, a familial relationship between the actors shouldn’t matter at all. > > Then again, Michael Madsen refuses to see any films in which his sister appears naked (which is all but about two of them). So _shrug_. Gay relationships lead to incest. Got it, Rev. Robertson. 🙂 > [@Bozuit](#): > > Serge Gainsbourg made a film called _Charlotte For Ever_ featuring his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film contains some nudity from Charlotte, who was around 15 at the time, including at least one scene with Serge. I don’t think it’s a sexual scene, but there is some physical contact, I believe. No, you are mistaken. They never, ever [alluded to incestuous themes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_Incest). You are reading too much into it. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954/43 "2014-05-23T22:54:09Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Most non-fucked up people are going to have some sort of **biological** horror instinct kick in at that suggestion. The taboo is sociological, not biological. Not that i’m against, but just saying… ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954/44 "2014-05-23T23:28:15Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > The taboo is sociological, not biological. Not that i’m against, but just saying… I tend to subscribe to the [Westermarck effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect). (Which is just a hypothesis, lacking conclusive evidence.) I’m not entirely sure if the effect would be said to be nature or nurture, but in either case I don’t think incest is a taboo because of sociological pressure. I think that there is sociological pressure because incest is taboo. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954/45 "2014-05-24T00:23:21Z")
I wonder if it’s a qualification of this board that the poster must possess a biological nitpicking instinct or something. That is really not the point here. Like, Michael Madsen was a handsome man and Virginia Madsen was and is a beautiful woman, and I personally would not have a problem with kissing either one of them. That doesn’t mean that they should be asked to kiss because, whattsamatta, you’re professionals, right? Just pretend he’s NOT your brother. Uh, no. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954/46 "2014-05-24T02:44:35Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > I wonder if it’s a qualification of this board that the poster must possess a **biological** nitpicking instinct or something. That is really not the point here. That one would be psychological. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lily-allen-turned-down-incestuous-game-of-thrones-role/688954.md?page=2)