'Game Of Thrones' Actress Reveals How You Know When A Character Is Going To Die

It's common for a television and film series to develop some sort of recognisable idiosyncrasy over the course of its run. For Game of Thrones, perhaps the strongest one is that a death is most probably right around the corner at any given moment.

It's gotten to the point where you can even place bets who'll be next and when. No one's safe, really.

Obviously in the first few seasons, which were based on the books, it would be easy for the cast to know who's going to die, because it's already been written. However, now the scripts have moved beyond George R. R. Martin's novels, it's up to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to make sure the bodies keep rising.

Jessica Henwick, the actress who plays Nymeria, one of the latest to meet their demise, has hinted at how the cast can tell if their time is up.

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She told Entertainment Weekly that when you get a call from Benioff and Weiss, you should probably prepare for the best.

"As soon as you hear that more than one of them is on the call, you know what that means," she explained. "If it's just one they're probably talking about the story. But if it's both of them then you know."

Given that Nymeria and Obara Sand's deaths in this week's installment of season seven were merely the latest of the show's many fatalities, and that we're literally only two episodes in, you can count on a lot more deaths in the coming weeks.

Such is the frequency of characters' deaths, there are many fan theories claiming that some may not actually be dead.

One such theory regarding Sean Bean's character, Ned Stark, suggests just this, claiming that his death was actually a trick. Not being funny, but his head was cut off and put on a stick, so I'm not holding out much hope here.

Another early suggestion says that he may have shapeshifted into one of the birds that are seen flying during the execution scene, but a lot of people have picked enough holes in this for it to be seen as bullshit.

However, YouTube channel The Last Harpy have also put forward a theory that Stark may have gotten some help from Jaqen H'ghar to fake his execution.

The idea here is that he may have escaped after he met with Jaqen in the Black Cells where he was being held, and the Faceless Man used his ability to switch places.

This would mean that Jaqen would actually be Arya's father, with fans pointing out that his paternal tendencies towards support the claim, according to Elite Daily.

Who knows? It's probably not true, as these things rarely are, but it heightens the engagement fans have with the show, so that's good.

Topics: Death, Game of Thrones

Mark McGowan

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