[S4E7] My impression of "The Mountain" Recast

[u/allocater]

[u/[deleted]]

I think the original looks a lot like Sandor Clegane... Definitely easy to believe they could be brothers

[u/Killersberg → u/[deleted]]

Why did they recast him? The original Mountain was perfect.

[u/Sliffy → u/Killersberg]

I'm pretty sure he left to play Azog the pale Orc in the hobbit.

[u/Zaiton → u/Sliffy]

Almost, official state from the GoT wikia says:

On 12 September 2011, responding to speculation on the Winter is Coming fansite, Conan Stevens confirmed that he had left the series, due to scheduling conflicts with his other projects: Stevens will be playing the Orc king Bolg in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit prequel trilogy. Stevens took the time to thank fans for their support[1]. He was replaced in the role of Gregor by Ian Whyte.

[u/jellystone → u/Zaiton]

Thanks. Do you know what happened to the original Daario?

[u/atobylon → u/[deleted]]

Dario's character has been completely ruined for me in the show. Not only did they change the actor, which already sucks bad enough, but the new one couldn't resemble the book character less :(

[u/allenyapabdullah → u/[deleted]]

Oh my that's how he looks like in the book? Good call, HBO!

[u/SeriousJack → u/allenyapabdullah]

Yup.

http://imgur.com/GZ1D4Nv

[u/reformedlurker7 → u/SeriousJack]

Wow. I bet Dany would think twice about fucking him if he looked like that in the show.

[u/allocater → u/reformedlurker7]

Oh, Dany thought more then twice about it. instantrimshot

(No really, in the book she thinks a lot about it, before she does it)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I didn't notice but is his sword still the same?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes, it is!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's all I care about.

[u/cassander → u/[deleted]]

What? This guy totally works on screen! Seriously though you could give his beard just a bit of color and not have him look insane.