re: Game of Thrones SPOILER PARTY (frick it, just spoil it all)

I read that they cast the part based mostly on sword fighting ability. He doesn't really have to be a great actor, just not embarrassingly bad, just as long as he kicks arse.

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First, let’s talk a little about Eddie Eyre, the actor who was cast in the mysterious role of “Ser Alfred Hunrith” a while back. Given his extensive sword-fighting experience, most people saw through that name and figured that Eyre was actually being cast as Ser Arthur Dayne, a legendary kingsguard knight slain by Ned Stark and company at the Tower of Joy.

That assumption was bolstered when Eyre started tweeting about heading to Spain to film a scene that involved him fighting in armor. Those tweets came down the pipeline shortly before we started getting video and pics of a group of actors fighting at the Castillo de Zafra, which stands in for the Tower of Joy. Odds are good that Eyre is among those combatants.

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But if Eyre’s not playing Dayne, who is? A commenter at fansite Watchers on the Wall may have the answer. According to the commenter, “Luke Roberts has been in training for weeks and was joined last week by Eddie Eyre and Rob Aramayo.” Luke Roberts is an English actor known for roles in BBC dramas like Colby City and Mile High. This one is hard to verify, but Roberts certainly has the physical presence to play a character like Dayne.

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Now, let’s get back to Robert Aramayo. If Eyre is playing a young Ned Stark, which seems likely, and Roberts is playing Dayne, which seems plausible, and the three of them all trained together, Aramayo may well be playing Howland Reed, Ned Stark’s friend who was present during the fight at the Tower of Joy. In the up-close video of the fight that surfaced earlier today, a figure sneaks up behind Dayne and stabs him in the back. Odds are that this is Reed, a short, diminutive man who hails from the Neck, an area just south of the North. In the books, Howland Reed is father to Jojen Reed, the young psychic Bran meets on his journey towards the Wall, which brings me to this.

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Eyre has the training, but he looks way more like Sean Bean. Roberts has to be Dayne and Aramayo has to be Reed.

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