Game of Thrones Season 5 Is Casting People With 26 Inch Waists or Smaller

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Sep 11, 2014 05:17 pm

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Read on for what this unique casting call could mean for the series’ next season.

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ProjectCasting.com posted the following casting sheet for HBO’s Game of Thrones Season 5:

We are currently casting FEATURED EXTRAS roles for people of all ages 18 years and over, all ethnicities, and all genders for a production currently filming in Northern Ireland.

The catch? You must have a size 26″ WAIST or LESS. We really are looking for an eclectic group of people for this. If you know anyone (a friend, uncle, grandmother, etc) who would be interested in this but who are not necessarily on Facebook please help them apply for a role in this fantastic scene!

Filming dates are very rough but currently: between 1-4 days between Monday 20th October & 31st October

Winter is Coming presumes this may mean they’re casting the Children of the Forest. And we’re finding it hard to argue. There’s not many reasons we can think of to specifically cast folks who are small.

[SPOILER-ish talk now]

The Children of the Forest are a “non-human race” who lived in Westeros before the First Men. The wise men, or “Greenseers,” of their race could wield magic. They’ve been mentioned on the series a few times but we finally saw one in the flesh at the end of Season 4. Leaf, played by a child actor, was the one who saved Bran from the wights and threw a wicked fire ball. Presumably casting adults would be easier for HBO going forward.

What do you think? Please preface any spoiler talk with [SPOILERS] please.

[Edit: Forgot we had posted about Hodor not being in Season 5 but neglected to mention Isaac Hempstead-Wright’s Bran will be.

[Edit #2: Another theory from a commenter below – these could be folks use for the large Sept crowd.]

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Jill Pantozzi

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."