GAME OF THRONES Stars Refute Excessive Violence Claim on the Show

If GAME OF THRONES is known for anything, it's the constant violent content and frequent on-screen deaths.

HBO's hit fantasy intrigue show has lately been under fire regarding its graphic plots, with some speculating that the blood and gore is quite excessive. However, the stars do not agree.

"You mostly always feel the consequences of that person dying," says GAME OF THRONES star Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow. "In Thrones it's war, and awful, awful things happen, as we see on the news daily. And if we've got an appetite for watching these things on the news then you can't shy away from it on cable drama."

He says that the deaths are far from gratuitous because they are essential to the plot.

"In Thrones, as much as they bury the dead they see very quickly there is an impact that those deaths have which I'm constantly playing. People are always dying around me in Thrones."

Based on the bestselling fantasy book series by George R.R. Martin, GAME OF THRONES is an epic drama set in the world of Westeros, where ambitious men and women of both honor and ill-repute live in a land whose summers and winters can last years. The Emmy®- and Golden Globe-winning fantasy series concluded its ten-episode fourth season in June, with the fifth season scheduled to launch in 2015.

Cast regulars for the fourth season of GAME OF THRONES included: Emmy® and Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Charles Dance, Aidan Gillen, Jack Gleeson, Kit Harington, Diana Rigg, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Alfie Allen, Jerome Flynn, Conleth Hill, John Bradley, Gwendoline Christie, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Dillane, Natalie Dormer, Iain Glen, Kristofer Hivju, Sibel Kekilli, Rose Leslie, Rory McCann, Michael McElhatton, Iwan Rheon and Carice van Houten.

The executive producers of GAME OF THRONES are David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield; co-executive producers, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis and George R.R. Martin; producers, Chris Newman and Greg Spence.

Photo courtesy of HBO

Source: Radio Times

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