See Finn Jones (Loras Tyrell) in Iron Fist, and other Game of Thrones actor news

Image: Iron Fist trailer/Screengrab

Welcome to a Game of Thrones celebrity roundup, where we update you on what former and current cast members are doing with their time. We start with Finn Jones, who played Loras Tyrell for six seasons before getting blown the hell up in “The Winds of Winter.” But don’t cry for him. He’s getting his own Netflix show: Iron Fist, where he plays the titular superhero. Check out the trailer:

“A child…touched by fire.” I’m not familiar with the Iron Fist comics, so I’m choosing to take that as a “Kissed by Fire” reference.

Netflix’s series of superhero dramas (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage) have performed very well, so this is great news for Jones. Reviews for the trailer have been positive:

So Missandei likes it. What say you?

Also doing pretty well for himself: Ian McElhinney, who you may remember as the dearly departed Barristan Selmy, who fell fighting the Sons of the Harpy in Season 5. According to Deadline, he’ll be playing a character named Val-El on Krypton, a new show from SyFy set on Superman’s home planet, a couple generations before it exploded.

I’m not a Superman expert, but Superman’s Kypronian name is Kal-El, and his father’s name is Jor-El. Does this mean that McElhinney is playing Superman’s great-great-grandfather or something? Deadline doesn’t say, but it does reveal that Val-El is “a rogue genius who believes that space exploration is a basic form of self-defense, and he has tried, without success, to warn the Kryptonian elite about the arrival of an ancient threat.” Sounds juicy.

Moving on to actors who are still on the show, Kit Harington (Jon Snow) is on the cover of the October issue of August man, a men’s luxury lifestyle magazine out of Singapore. Behold:

That honor comes complete with a baffling short film, below. I’m not sure what the filmmaker is trying to say here, but it includes a wolf who looks like Ghost, so I’m happy.

Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) took his few days off from filming Game of Thrones Season 7 to reunite with Hussam Alheraky, a 16-year-old Syrian refugee he first met in September when he visited a refugee camp in Jordan as part of a humanitarian project by World Vision. Here’s a tape of their initial meeting:

Since this video was shot, Alheraky managed to get a passport and travel to Stuttgard, Germany, where Cunningham met up with him again. The meeting took Alheraky by surprise.

"He nearly collapsed when he saw me. I crept up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. He didn’t expect it at all. We’d stayed in touch after Jordan and he sent me photos of his passport as soon as he got the good news. He was just so delighted. He’d never been on a plane before."

Cunningham has been inspired by Alheraky, who is pushing forward with his life despite living through the deaths of his friends and family members. “He has this incredible self-belief for someone so young. The horrors in Syria won’t take away his humanity. He hopes to go back and rebuild his country one day.”

Finally, some quick Instagram updates. Faye Marsay, the actress behind Arya’s nemesis the Waif, has dyed her hair pink. Pink, I say!

And here’s Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (the Mountain) dominating on the basketball court.

He and his opponent seem a little mismatched in that second video, but as long as they’re having fun, have at it.

h/t Independent.ie