lookattheredredchangesinthesky:
Jun 4th / 39 notes †
- “As soon as you’re there on the set, as soon as you’re in the costume, as soon as you’re in that world, you can’t help but not be in that world. […] There’s just no time to think about yourself as an actor. You just are that character. You are playing that scene. You are in that story. […] As far as I’m concerned, when I’m in that role with Renly, I am madly in love with him and that is it. That’s it.” (x)
- “I think for Loras there’s so much, so much stuff going on in that second book. […] Even before Renly dies, there’s the whole business of Brienne. Brienne comes in and there’s the whole jealous love triangle between Renly, Loras and Brienne, so Loras has to deal with that. Also, you’ve got the fact that Margaery is marrying Renly, so then for Loras, there’s that whole idea that his sister might have to sleep with his lover. […] Then when Renly dies—like I was saying earlier, you said, “What motivated Loras?” It’s his love for Renly…I mean, sigh, I can’t even imagine what it must be like for Loras to lose that one person that matters to him. He’s got so much pressure on him: he’s famous throughout the land, all the women absolutely adore him, but he’s not really interested in that that much. He really appreciates it and respects it, but as far as he’s concerned, he has—he’s found his true love, and that’s all that matters to him. So when Renly does die…whew, wow. What does he do? There’s a beautiful scene where he takes Renly and buries him, which I think, sigh, it’s just beautiful. The whole idea of it is really special. So what else has he got left? He joins the Kingsuard to protect his sister.” (x)
- “All of his life he’s devoted… everything to Renly. He didn’t really have many friends. Renly was his main friend, his main lover, and he did everything for this guy and then the guy dies and his life just falls into utter chaos… He’s picking up the pieces, but he’s got no one really around him to help him out, and that’s where his family and Littlefinger manipulated him into joining the Lannisters. […] He wants to help his family out, because he’s very dutiful to them, and also, he wants revenge, he wants closure. At the same time, I think he knows what he’s doing is not right and he truly believes that Renly was the true king and their plan was just so perfect and now that’s thrown aside.” (x)
- “To me, Ser Loras being gay isn’t a big deal, and it shouldn’t be. It’s just, he’s fallen in love with this person and that’s the way it is. I think as soon as you start getting into playing a gay character, you do fall into — maybe even if it’s just subconsciously — the stereotypes of playing a gay character. I don’t think it should be an issue whether you’re playing a gay character, a straight character, whatever, you’re just playing the truth of one character’s love for another. I think that’s what me and Gethin both just tried to do. We never really indulged in the fact that we were playing gay characters. We just really tried to play the truth of both of the characters’ love for each other.” (x)
- WinterIsComing.net: “I like how you commented on our Gethin thread and no one seemed to notice. Haha! Thank for stopping by. Tell Geth we’ll miss him!” - Finn Jones: “Will do, I’m sure he’s seen it and is lapping up all the appreciation, besides it would of been an outrage for me to not stop by at my fictional boyfriend’s online funeral…just paying my respects.” (x)
