A dream of mine has always been to be an extra on a film or television show so I must admit, I’m very jealous of these folks who got the chance to work on HBO’s Game of Thrones. Especially since most of them are fans. When I watch behind-the-scenes videos like this though, I still wonder how productions like this even get made. As assistant crowd costumer Claire Snoddy says, “The logistics of organizing is very, very difficult.”
Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."
