james northcote played the white walkers in game of thrones.
james northcote played the white walkers in game of thrones.
who plays the white walkers in game of thrones?
james northcote
the white walkers portrayed on hbo's "game of thrones" differ slightly in appearance from their literary counterparts, but aaron souppouris of "the verge" named them among "the most visually iconic creatures on the show". in the tv series, the primary white walker has been portrayed by ross mullan. their apparent leader is the night king, portrayed by richard brake and vladimir furdik, who first appeared in the episode "oathkeeper", in which he places his hand on craster's baby son, transforming him into a white walker. in "hardhome", the effectiveness of valyrian steel against the white walkers is proven as jon shatters one to pieces with a single stroke of his ancient sword longclaw. unlike in the novels, the tv series has established that wights can be destroyed by dragonglass.
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in regards to the white walkers' origin, david benioff stated "no one's innocent really in this world, and there was just something really beautifully right about the idea that the great nemesis of mankind were created to protect the children of the forest from mankind." d. b. weiss noted, "the night king, who's sort of the embodiment of absolute evil, what you're watching is the creation of that absolute evil, so the absolute evil isn't absolute after all." benioff also alluded to the many references and foreshadowing throughout the series that preceded the reveal of the children creating the white walkers, saying, "there are certain symbols and patterns that recur throughout the show. the first time we saw that was one of the very first scenes in the pilot, when will the ranger sees the wildling body parts in an odd pattern displayed by the white walkers. we see it again north of the wall with the dead horses displayed in a spiral pattern, and then you see it again here and see where these patterns come from, that they're ancient symbols of the children of the forest used in their rituals, and the children of the forest created the white walkers."
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