We all went to 'synth school' where we worked with Frantic Assembly movement director Dan O’Neill. How did you go about learning to play a malfunctioning robot?
We spoke with British rising star Will Tudor who plays Odi – an aging synth on the verge of destruction – about the show's success, going nude in Game of Thrones and why TV is only getting better. The series, which explores the blurred lines between humans and machines known as synths, is Channel 4's most popular drama in 20 years.
But let us cease pretending that this show has never before placed a dick directly in front of our faces.Humans has become the sleeper hit of 2015. Regardless it’s one which women, gays, and Matt McGorrys would be happy to see Game of Thrones continue to lift. That’s at least true within HBO, where dick should almost be a requirement ( Girls, for instance, didn’t show a penis until this year). Nonetheless, I’d say that Game of Thrones has done more to chip away at the American entertainment industry’s longtime nudity imbalance than pretty much any other show on television. (Though both Kit Harrington and Lena Headey have been afforded body doubles in the past.) And while Allen (who went nude once before in a staging of Equus) has remained a fixture in the series’ ever-expanding world, frontal nudity is expected of some of the show’s most recognizable female actors (Clarke, Carice van Houten) even as most of its leading men are allowed to stay clothed. Vox’s Emily Crockett read the most recent cock shot as the show’s creators’ meta-response to the claim ( publicly advanced by Clarke) that Game of Thrones doesn’t feature enough male nudity, and maybe it was.Ĭlarke and others have argued that the ratio of female-to-male nudity on Game of Thrones is out of balance, which remains true. Then in Season 4, Will Tudor-as prostitute/spy Olyvar-flopped his dick across the screen as he stormed out of a brothel ( again via omgblog):įor American television, this counts as particularly prominent penis.
(Warning: This post is about to get NSFW.) Full frontal has been a part of the show dating as far back as Season 1, when Alfie Allen-in far better days for his character-put himself on clear display (via the invaluable celeb dick resource omgblog): While I agree that it was cool to see a dick (well, upon closer inspection, shaved balls and the balloon-knotted tip of an uncircumcised dick), I think it’s important to note that-contrary to breathless media reports-this was far from the first clearly exhibited dick in the history of Game of Thrones. Katie: I think we’ve seen them sometimes in brothel situations, dicks off in the distance, but this was a close-up! No warning! In some ways, it was the kind of senseless, gratuitous nudity that we usually see from female extras. Or at all, I think? It was like getting a surprise dick pic: I didn’t ask for this.
Tahirah: They have never shown a penis like that. Kelsey: Omg, we did! I screamed “PENIS!” when it happened. Katie: On the topic of dicks like Euron, we saw an actual dick.
A post on Vox about a play-within-the-play that took place during the episode shoved the phrase “penis-scene” into its URL, while Fusion’s episode recap heralded a “surprise death and surprise dick.” The discussion among the Fusion recappers encapsulates the general reaction: About damn time, right?”īut the dick is currency in the recap economy even aside from the talking points of a high-profile actor. “There’s a new character that was introduced last night on Game of Thrones, and the new character is a penis. Some of these news stories, as you can see, revolve around an appearance by Emilia Clarke (aka Daenerys Targaryen aka the Unburnt aka Breaker of Chains aka the Mother of Dragons) on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, in which she exalted the on-screen cock: Publications as esteemed as Time and Vanity Fair and as downmarket as Perez Hilton and “.uk.” together erected an entire pop-up content mill to manufacture news stories about the dick that appeared on Game of Thrones: Oh, and earlier in the episode they showed a dick.ĭepending on your sources of Game of Thrones news (“news”), the appearance of a penis was the biggest story to come out of the episode.
The series became famous for suddenly killing off major characters in the least merciful ways imaginable, but the newest episode ended with a beloved figure dying in a manner that was excruciating and brutal but also honorable and sort of elegant. Last week’s episode of Game of Thrones will be remembered as one that rewarded emotional investment in a show that, in recent seasons, has given its viewers plenty of reasons to check out.