{"id":23990,"date":"2019-05-20T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1042879"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:01:34","slug":"game-of-thrones-cast-bids-farewell-to-fans-in-emotional-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/game-of-thrones-cast-bids-farewell-to-fans-in-emotional-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones Cast Bids Farewell to Fans in Emotional Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019420\/rs_600x600-190520062114-600-2-game-of-thrones-finale-1-ch-052019.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.733333333333\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.466666666667\">\n<p>It&#8217;s all over. <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> is over. And the cast is just as emotional as you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fans have, like, given me an identity that I didn&#8217;t have,&#8221; an emotional <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/emilia_clarke\">Emilia Clarke<\/a><\/strong> says in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to all the people I don&#8217;t know. Allowing us to keep playing these games and keep telling these stories,&#8221; Clarke says.<\/p>\n<p>The video below includes messages from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/maisie_williams\">Maisie Williams<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sophie_turner\">Sophie Turner<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Kristofer Hivju<\/strong>, <strong>John Bradley<\/strong>, <strong>Isaac Hempstead-Wright<\/strong> and <strong>Gwendoline Christie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never expected people to like Brienne of Tarth. I was certainly prepared for people not to,&#8221; Christie says in the video below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>And then Brienne became one of the fan-favorite characters.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>She expands on her thoughts in an additional video. &#8220;I&#8217;ve loved this character and I&#8217;ve had such a fantastic time, the way that people have taken her to their hearts has been so wonderful and I&#8217;m incredibly grateful for the support,&#8221; Christie says while holding back tears.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"34.100591715976\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"3.6213017751479\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lovegwendoline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lovegwendoline<\/a>\u2019s final words to the realm. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GameofThrones?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GameofThrones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7T9ICu06qQ\">pic.twitter.com\/7T9ICu06qQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Game of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameOfThrones\/status\/1130499421211430913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.191489361702\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.723404255319\">\n<p>The tears, they just keep coming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really loved playing Torumund,&#8221; Hivju says. &#8220;This has been a life-changing experience, being on this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The farewell video comes along with the message the HBO show <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameOfThrones\/status\/1130125961326993409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> ahead of the final episode. The note was simple: &#8220;To the cast, crew and fans around the world, we bend the knee to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> will conclude its eight-season run with a two-hour documentary. <em>Game of Thrones: The Last Watch<\/em> airs Sunday, May 26 at 9 p.m. on HBO. Filmmaker <strong>Jeanie Finlay<\/strong> was embedded on set of the hit series for a year and chronicled it all. The documentary is described as an &#8220;up close and personal report from the trenches of production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042879\/game-of-thrones-cast-bids-farewell-to-fans-in-emotional-video?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all over. Game of Thrones is over. And the cast is just as emotional as you&#8217;d expect. &#8220;The fans have, like, given me an identity that I didn&#8217;t have,&#8221; an emotional Emilia Clarke says in the video below. &#8220;Thank you to all the people I don&#8217;t know. 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