Are you anxiously awaiting Season 4, Episode 8 of HBO’s Game of Thrones? Counting down the hours to see if Tyrion's champion, Prince Oberyn, can take down The Mountain? Well you are out of luck, because Game of Thrones is taking the week off. Its Memorial Day weekend and that means that no will be home to watch the hit drama. However, if you dying for a taste the action awaiting you in the finale three, then read the report below.
Last week Tyrion Lannister found his champion, and now we wait. The hit HBO fantasy is taking a holiday this week.
Recently, showrunner Dan Weiss opened up to Entertainment Weekly about the big fight:
“It’s one of the best--if not the best--combat scenes we’ve done so far. It’s not just people hacking at each other with spears and swords. It’s the culmination of 20 years of anger and hatred and thirst for vengeance coming to a head in this amazing set piece that [stunt coordinator Paul Herbert and swordmaster C.C. Smiff] have put together. The fight delivers beyond our expectations.”
The fight takes place between blood thirsty Mountain and the viper Prince Oberyn. In case you didn’t hear him mention it almost every time he has ever been screen, Oberyn hates the Mountain for killing his sister. Weiss went on to praise the fighters:
“It’s one of those fights that from the very beginning of the process of planning the show before season one we knew would be a high point if done properly. And it’s a real challenge because The Mountain is The Mountain--you need to find an enormous human being who can also deliver what you need on physical front. And you need an Oberyn who delivers what you need as an actor and pull off the extremely strenuous side of that fight, which we shot over several days. We were lucky to find Pedro Pascal for Oberyn, who gives such a stunning, fun, and dangerous performance. And Hafþór for The Mountain is a truly unusual specimen--I believe he’s the third-strongest man in the world and a former basketball player, so he knows how to move. To see somebody who is 6′ 9″ and moving the way he does in person is a surreal sight to behold.”
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