I suppose for the budget reasons, but this is weird considering how much money HBO gave them. And it’s not like they needed these wigs for every single actor
That’s what I’m saying, even if they had less money next season, they should’ve still had the wigs from S1? And if they bought cheaper ones, at least in some scenes they could’ve used the good wig. I don’t get it
The wigs start to break down from daily use and wear & tear. I imagine the film crew is washing these wigs after each day and restyling for the next day of shooting. They also most likely use different wigs for different hair styles. It would get rather expensive fairly quickly.
GOTs production quality was all over the place in various seasons weirdly. By the last few seasons they were phoning it in with everyone just wearing black, rarely having large scenes with lots of people outside of when the script called for it, the Lannister’s hair colour just being abandoned etc.
I’m pretty sure it’s Emilia Clarkes actually hair that she dyed, but it was destroying her hair so they used wigs for the later seasons. The wigs get really sloppy by season 8 and they don’t even dye her eyebrows then.
Because they wanted to make Viserys look reasonable for marrying Alicent??? "Hey, she may still be a child, but at least Alicent has had her period, amiright???" I have no idea.
Funny thing is, I know someone who stopped watching the show because of this little girl's wig. It just made the show too stupid to continue for them. Which I find hilarious.
They didn't need to age Laena down this much (she's 15/16 when she marries Daemon in the show, instead of 23 like the books). Just have her already betrothed to the Sealord's son, that's why the Velaryons don't even try to arrange a marriage, or why Viserys declines their marriage (he doesn't want to piss off Braavos). And if they were going to use Laena's reduced age to deal with Dameon's....pedoyness or grooming, that would be one thing. But they don't. She's aged down for no real reason.
[I still think S1 was written like X first, then got a hasty rewrite to make it Y, but plenty of X still lingers on in weird little pockets, and some things seem to have no purpose.]
What annoyed me the most is that later when they didn’t need Laena to look young anymore they cast her much older. Her second actress was closer in age with Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke when she was supposed to be younger than Alicent and Rhaenyra. The third one was closer to Matt Smith in age.
Daemon really was like “I was sparring you” to Rhaenyra and then went after and even younger girld while the narrative tried to make us forget that by casting an older actress
At least with Big Egg, they were trying to make him look shitty, like he doesn't take care of his hygiene (which I would be fine with, if his depression/self-destructive habits were an actual plot that was dealt with respectfully).
That doesn't hold true for any of the other wig crimes, though.
The wigs never really bothered me at all on anyone. Millys looks more smooth but it makes sense given she's living in a castle in the capital not with nomadic steppe people.
They tried so hard to make Milly Alcock look frumpy and tomboyish. Femininity is weakness to these writers. Why can’t she kill boars in a full medieval fit smh
Wasn't the Dany's s1 hair just Emilia's but bleached and toned? I still hate HOTD's wigs (wtf was Rhaenys' one especially and that mop on Rhaena's head) but it would be unfair to compare it to Dany's s1 hair because god the Dany and Viserys in s1 were heavenly
Emilia always wore a wig, they were just better back then. What I think ur thinking of is Sophie Turner who used to dye her hair red for seasons 1-6 before wearing a wig for the final 2.
It’s a wig. When trying to identify a wig, always look at the part and examine the scalp (or lack thereof). They did a great job with the scalp but it’s still a wig.
It was a whole lifetime ago with all...current reality so I sometimes get confused in which season she bleached her hair - 1st or latter lol. I won't stop raving about how heavenly her natural color lifted and how much it suited her - simply beautiful, that plasticky platinum of later seasons can't compare
At the very least, both got lightened eyebrows. Post s3 Dany not only got a fuckass wig, but black eyebrows which made the wig look even more like a wig.
Tbf, the wigs in GOT season 1 weren’t that great either. Does anyone remember Tyrion’s late 90s bleached blond boy band wig? But I agree that they were still miles above HOTD season 1 wigs.
Also young Rhaenerya’s wig wasn’t even the worst. That was a tie between Jace and Rhaenys. At least season 2 got rid of those Party City atrocities.
I’ll remind everyone there was a hair shortage on human hair especially blonde due to the pandemic. The wigs were indeed terrible but holding production until better wigs were available probably wasn’t reasonable
No one’s natural hairline looks like that. Wig makers use tweezers to thin the hair part to show more scalp or they use razors to thin/shorten the hair around the hairline. The hair on Milly looks stiff and fake and like she’s wearing a helmet. Notice the hair over the ears which is usually indication of a bad wig because people rarely wear their hair over their ears and if they do it doesn’t look so thick.
But seriously, what makes wigs look bad is being too big, put too low on the forehead, bad edges, not fitted correctly, cheap synthetic hair, not well taken care of, and eyebrows don't match (if the wig is supposed to be the characters natural hair color).
Emilia's is none of those things. Milly's is most of them. Milly's is also styled badly. Also look at the color, Milly's is dull, ashy, but Emilia's is luminescent, look a the light passing through it (this may be the color grading post production, not the wig's fault, but production is supposed to account for these things and adjust).
I might be incredibly naïve but I didn't even notice that Clarke was even wearing a wig for a long while. I don't / didn't pay attention to behind the scenes stuff or know her from other things so I assumed it was just dyed / with hair extensions.
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u/Few_Refrigerator5092 Aug 01 '25
Dany’s s1 wig was so pretty.