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Game of Thrones Season 2: Even More Casting! Jaqen H’gar

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I swear it’s like Chanukah around here lately because there have been multiple castings over the past few days for season 2 of a Game of Thrones. Now, thanks to news from IGN we’ve been graced with the casting of the mysterious yet bad ass character of Jaqen H’gar. H’gar is one of the prisoners that will be accompanying Arya, Yoren and a bunch of scumbags back to the Wall…. if they make it there. I’ll fill in those of you who like spoilers after the jump about H’gar and his background.

Jaqen H’gar will be played by Tom Wlaschiha, another newbie who hasn’t had much of anything besides extra roles in movies. But hopefully he has some potential to be his best in what I think is a pretty big role as far as Arya’s part of the story is concerned.

**SPOILERS**

The character of Jaqen H’gar starts off as a regular criminal, but definitely one to be feared as his dungeon mates are scared to death of him. As it turns out, Jaqen is really one of the Faceless Men. The Faceless are an elite group of assassins operating out of Bravoss with the ability to magically change their faces at will, which is what makes them so adept at getting close to those they choose to eliminate. Jaqen will be a great help to Arya in season 2 and in many way helps forge her future as she moves on through the remaining books/seasons. Can’t wait to see him in action! Be prepared for some more casting that I’m sure will be coming!

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ITGS: Femme Fatales Creators – Mark A. Altman & Steve Kriozere (And a Season 2 Trailer!)

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 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!

For the last few months we talked a lot about the new Cinemax show Femme Fatales, and it’s become a pretty popular topic around here. So, with the season finale airing this Friday, we thought it might be nice to talk to the brain-trust behind the series. So what follows is my talk with show creators Mark A. Altman and Steve Kriozere.

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Game of Thrones: Season 2 – More Casting! Asha and Xaro

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The closer we get to season 2 filming, the more casting announcements we get for Game of Thrones! After having Melisandre, Stannis, Davos, Brienne and Margeary cast, now comes a Greyjoy and a Merchant Prince of the free city of Qarth! The Greyjoy that was cast is Theon’s sister Asha, who’s name was changed to Yara for the show. More on that in a minute. The merchant of Qarth is Xaro Xhoan Daxos, a fella that Daenerys runs afoul of during her travels.

Theon’s sister Yara (Asha) is being played by Gemma Whelan, a relative newcomer in my eyes. The only thing that I’ve seen with her in it was The Wolfman with Anthony Hopkins and Benecio Del Toro, but let’s face it: We’re all trying to forget that movie.

I have no problem with the actress playing Yara (Asha), but I can’t get over the fact that they changed her name to Yara to avoid confusion between Asha and another character, the wildling woman Osha. Really? Are people just assumed to be so stupid that they can’t figure out the difference between two characters with a different vowel to start off their name? Seriously they change it to Yara why? So it can sound almost like Arya? Good call boys, good call. Regardless of the name, I’m very much looking forward to seeing Yara (Asha) making her debut on the show. In the books Asha was a cocky, young, Ironborn girl who is a skilled fighter. She’s definitely not the lady type most daughters of a King would be, but everyone will soon find out that the Iron Islands make up one of the harshest kingdoms in all of Westeros.

Playing Xaro is the actor Nonso Anozie who is also another newcomer, but is in the upcoming Conan The Barbarian movie starring a Game of Thrones alum Jason Momoa, who played Khal Drogo in season 1. I wasn’t really impressed with the character in the book. You’ll come to see that characters like Xaro are a dime a dozen by the fourth season.

The cast is growing but as I said before there are still plenty of characters to be cast, most of them secondary and brief characters but interesting nonetheless. Stay tuned as we bring them to you!