James Corden Joins the Hall of Faces, Maisie Williams Pranks Fans
By Ani Bundel
We’re only three days away from the debut of Game of Thrones Season 6, which means that the cast is showing up on every last latenight show in existence right now, just in case you weren’t aware the show was coming back. For most of those shows, that meant a cast member or two stops by and debuts some new footage from the premiere, but James Corden isn’t high enough on the latenight totem poll to get all of that. He got some guest stars, but he didn’t score any footage. But Corden is a crafty and creative soul. No new footage? Fine! He’ll make his own! After all, that first trailer with the Hall of Faces was pretty cheap, right? He’ll just get the actors to take part in the extended cut you wish you had seen.
“Jon Snow, what about you? You still up?” Corden asked. “Snowy, are you awake? Snowster? Snowstorm? Snowman? Snow Chi Minh? Snow Diggity? No? Huh, guess you really are dead.” #superrude!
Meanwhile, Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke sat down with Corden and made with the anecdotes. First, Headey talks about a very interesting encounter with a Game of Thrones-loving nurse…
…and Clarke advocated for more penises on the show.
Corden isn’t the only one having a little fun. Maisie Williams turns out to have pranked quite a few fans of the show recently. As part of her cover article for Nylon this May, she agreed to pretend to be a cashier at Aero Hobbies, a gaming shop in LA. The store didn’t do anything to make her up or anything, so fan upon fan recognized her…only to be told, actually…no. Her name’s Lorraine.
“I get this all the time,” Lorraine said. “It’s kind of really awkward.”
Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Bolton) has been on the prank warpath as well. A reporter from USA Today was set to interview him, together with castmates Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton) and Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), in a Beverly Hills hotel room. The reporter entered the room to find McElhatton and Allen lounging on the bed. And then Rheon burst from a cedar chest at the foot of the bed and shocked the reporter.
“I was just trying to break the ice,” Rheon said. Well, I suppose that around the 1000th interview, the cast members have to find ways to liven things up.
And finally, speaking of awkward, Emilia Clarke faced an awkward question or two during the interview barrage for this coming season. As we all probably remember, Clarke was cast as the new Sarah Conner in the Terminator reboot last summer…the one that kinda rebooted the franchise into oblivion, or at least back into mothballs for a while. Most places haven’t brought that up (for the same reason people don’t ask kit Harington about Pompeii much.) ComingSoon was not one of them, especially after the news that Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning to star in yet another installment. Would Clarke, it asked, be part of the franchise’s future?
No. Can I say that? It’s okay. No. Uh-uh. But I have some very different roles coming up.
One of those “very different” roles will be the romantic leading lady in Me Before You, which opens on June 3rd of this year. That movie will costar Sam Claflin from The Hunger Games and former Game of Thrones star Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) as the moneyed patriarch (it’s good to stretch as an actor), and hopefully it will help Clarke find some silver screen success.