Pics and video: Game of Thrones Season 7 filming underway at Trujillo Castle

Trujillo Castle. Photo by DEA / W. BUSS/De Agostini/Getty Images.

Filming for Game of Thrones Season 7 is underway today at Trujillo Castle, with the historical venue in tight lockdown to keep spoilers from leaking. According to Hoy, actors were seen heading for the castle, which has been seen flying the Lannister flag.

SPOILERS ahead!

One of them, fittingly, is a Lannister. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, to be specific, is in the area. Here he is at the Palacio de Oquendo, where he’ll be staying with other cast members during the show’s stay in Cáceres. (They’ll be there through December 22, shooting at Las Breñas, El Barrueco de Arriba, and in the Old Town of Cáceres.

James Faulkner (Randyll Tarly) is also there, and not being shy about it.

Coster-Waldau, in the meanwhile, has been posing with just about anyone who asks. He’s even been making references to other shows.

(Roughly translated: “#Lucille Is definitely the most popular. Until Jamie Lannister (#JuegodeTronos) has posed with her. #TheWalkingDead.”) Welp!

Check out the video Hoy posted of the crew setting up and the actors who are already in residence at their hotel.

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Although the show has rented out 500+ hotel rooms, so far, many of the major actors we’re hoping to show up as this massive battle showdown have not made it to Cáceres. Or if they have, they’ve been able to lay low enough that fans are not snapping pictures of them during off-hours. Only Faulkner, Jerome Flynn (Bronn), and Coster-Waldau have been seen, with Faulkner telling the local outlet how much they all love the town.

One assumes that, since these are the only major actors in town, that whatever scenes are being filming in Trujillo only include Bronn, Jaime, and Randyll Tarly, although other actors could show up before filming wraps there this week. With Randyll Tarly a die-hard Tyrell supporter and the Lannister flag flying above Trujillo Castle, it’s looking more and more likely that the place is standing in for Highgarden after it gets taken over by the Lannisters.

Recall: the production was flying a Lannister flag over the Castillo de Almodóvar del Río, too. But there’s more ambiguity there over whether it’s standing in for Highgarden, Casterly Rock, or both.