The first season we got together was season four, and the first scene we shot was the last scene from the season with the Hound and Brienne fighting. Portman’s baleful a capella solo, says director David Nutter, nailed the episode’s overall emotional pitch, as the camera looks in slowly on major character after major character, with only hours — perhaps just minutes — of peace left before death (quite literally) arrives at their doorstep.“I wanted to shoot it with continuous shots, [and] it was great, because he kept the rhythm for a long time,” says Nutter, with writer Bryan Cogman adding — while fighting back a tear or two — that the song helped put a signature on an episode he described as “a love letter to the characters.”Like Comic-Con. ** Settings. 98% Upvoted. So we came in and we had to figure out [Pod and Brienne's] dynamic quite quickly, and then work backwards through that season. So we all got presented with these when we wrapped. She's a rarity, Gwen, a rarity of warmth and love and happiness. To cap it off with singing a song and having a really powerful and important moment in the episode, it was just a really, really, really touching to me that they thought of me to do it. But no, they didn't go into any details about what the lyrics may allude to or anything like that.It seemed to me like she couldn't quite believe it was happening and was so scared of taking a leap in case something doesn't go to plan, but it was obviously the thing she wanted. I always thought that was a really sweet scene. Daniel Portman in Edinburgh. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Sort by. 0:00. best. level 1. "That whole scene of us sitting around the fire was one of my favorite scenes that I've ever shot on the show," Portman told INSIDER over the phone on Friday afternoon. She wanted recognition, she wanted to be treated the same and she wanted to be a knight. You're so used to Brienne being this fierce warrior and this total bad--- and then all of a sudden she's a little girl again and she's nervous.I remember when I read that script, I just thought, "What a great scene." And especially at that stage because I was maybe 21 or 22 [years old] and I had this great opportunity to stand across the room from a great actor like Peter Dinklage and be toe-to-toe with him and just do a scene. [Showrunner] Dan Weiss sent the recording of him singing it a capella and that's where I learned the tune. share. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Portman auditioned in his own voice and in received pronunciation, … **SPOILER WARNING: This story contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 2. “Because it was very high — I don’t usually sing it as high as that.” Daniel Portman was born and raised in the suburbs of Zurich, Switzerland. [No Spoilers] Daniel Portman (Podrick) Sings The Rains of Castamere. It was the late 90s, with all its ups and downs, when young Daniel started to test his musical abilities on an Akai2000 sampler and an old sequencer. Except every week in your inbox.“I was drinking a lot of herbal teas, and honey, and things like that, to make sure,” Portman jokes around the 17:45 mark in the clip below.
But it was just loads of fun. But yeah, my last day was intense and sad and joyful to feel so much warmth and so much love for so many people, and that is 100% all I'm gonna tell you about it.To me [that nod] was about encouragement. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get more of it.A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.Keep reading to learn more about how Pod's musical moment came about, why fans may feel rightfully concerned heading into the coming Battle of Winterfell, and how Portman's last day on set was "intense and sad." I think the way they put everything together and where the background of that scene comes from Brienne being knighted and Tormund telling his backstory about how he got his name, and then finishing with the song ... that whole scene of us sitting around the fire was one of my favorite scenes that I've ever shot on the show. Actor Daniel Portman had one of the most emotional "Game of Thrones" breakout moments on Sunday's "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," when his character Podrick Payne sang a meaningful tune.
She displayed more knightly qualities than any knight that's been on the show.I do really feel lucky get to work with somebody who's quite good at their job and also as good of a person as she is. In those early stages we had quite a lot of the comic relief in the show, so it was really joyful experience for us both.Like what you see here?