Natalie Dormer is still out in force promoting her new horror film The Forest, and interviews are still using the opportunity to ply her for information about Game of Thrones. Check out her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where she may have—possibly, a little bit—given something away about Season 6.
SPOILER WARNING
Okay, so what’s the new news? Let’s parse it out.
- Filming on Season 6 has wrapped. No, we’ve known that for a while.
- Natalie Dormer spent a lot of time filming in Spain this year. No, we covered that back when it happened, although a couple of outlets are reporting this as a hint that Margaery may get out of prison in Season 6. But really, we’ve known she would get sprung since September, when she was seen filming outdoor scenes in Girona, Spain.
- Jon Snow may not stay dead. Well, duh. Also, points for the pun about Season 6 representing “fresh clean snow” for the cast and crew, since there’s no longer any source material to go by.
- 2:02—Dormer “only read the scripts that are relevant to Margaery and
Highgardenand King’s Landing.” Okay, maybe we can work with that.
Admittedly, this could be nothing, but some think that Dormer’s hasty addition of “and King’s Landing” to the list of storylines she pays attention to was an attempt to distract from a slip-up she made: she said she only reads scripts that are “relevant…to Highgarden.” Does this mean that Highgarden, the seat of House Tyrell, may show up in Season 6?
It’s something we’ve thought about. Originally, we theorized that the bucolic Castillo de Santa Florentina might stand in for Highgarden, but it was later revealed to be the set for Horn Hill, the seat of House Tarly. Still, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the castle couldn’t have served more than one purpose. I mean, tell me this place wouldn’t make a perfect Highgarden.
Plus, George R.R. Martin has hinted in past interviews that he may write scenes set at Highgarden, so it’s not out of the question that it could turn up on the show.
Either that, or Dormer just said “Highgarden” to indicate that she pays attention to storylines for other characters who hail from the area, like Loras and Olenna. Or she said it just because. Like I said, there may be nothing to this, but when it comes to Game of Thrones spoilers, there’s no molehill so small that can’t be made into a mountain.