We have spent five seasons watching the mythical land of Westeros and the characters on Game of Thrones, but what would it be like to actually visit George R.R. Martin‘s fictional universe? Well, one fan got the cahnce to find out when he was cast as an extra in the infamous Purple Wedding scene in season 4.
“Being an extra on Game of Thrones is an amazing experience,” writes Quora user Felipe Ferri. “I was fortunate enough to participate in King Joffrey’s wedding feast as a servant. That scene was shot in Dubrovnik, Croatia, an incredibly beautiful historical city at the shore of the Adriatic Sea.”
Ferri goes on to admit that he only managed to work his way through the first book before he traveled to Croatia to shoot the scene for HBO, so he was so shocked to find out one of the main characters would die while he was there.
Ferri says the cast was super nice and he even managed to grab a photo with King Joffrey, Tyrion and Cersei Lannister before filming was over.
Here was a typical day:
“The five days I spent on the set were amazing. They were intense – we had to meet at a pickup point at 4 AM and were dropped off at the same point at 7 PM, but everything was so exciting that even the long hours didn’t matter. We spent the whole days in our costumes, and it was amazing to be surrounded by noble men and women, soldiers, servants and maids. It is funny that you kinda begin to think that everything is real, and you kinda start to think that the guys in armor are really soldiers, though they’re regular people just like you.
It is kinda scary, if you think about it. It was also extremely funny the anachronisms that you see in a place like that. Though your brain is starting to accept that you are in a medieval world, suddenly when you look to the side you see a servant typing on his iPhone, or a City Watch guard smoking a cigarette, or an old nobleman drinking boxed juice…”
Sounds like an amazing experience. If you are interested in joining the cast of the Game of Thrones check out the latest casting calls here.
