Upset about Ed Sheeran on ‘Game of Thrones?’ The director says he ‘deserved to be there.’
Upset about Ed Sheeran on ‘Game of Thrones?’ The director says he ‘deserved to be there.’:- Ed Sheeran’s appearance in the “Game of Thrones” season premiere annoyed some viewers who found the singer’s cameo distracting in a show that doesn’t tend to have big guest appearances.
But the episode’s director, Jeremy Podeswa, sees no reason to be upset about it.
Podeswa told the Daily Beast this week that he was “a bit surprised that people have made that much fuss about it … To me, he does seem quite organic, in his own way, to the show.”
On Sunday’s episode, Arya Stark comes across a group of soldiers singing a ditty and chowing down on roasted rabbit. Sheeran was one of them, and he exchanges a few words with Arya.
“The truth is, everybody on the show is famous now,” Podeswa told Daily Beast. “It doesn’t mean anything to me. It’s about, are they appropriate for the role? Are they doing a good job? And it was yes, yes, yes to all those questions with him so, I don’t know.”
The show has had other musicians show up, but perhaps not as conspicuously as Sheeran. Coldplay drummer Will Champion, for instance, played in a band at the Red Wedding.
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Maisie Williams, 20, plays Arya and is a huge Sheeran fan. So the HBO series’ showrunners got Sheeran to show up as a surprise for the actress, who has basically grown up on set.
“She was really happy to have him there, and they do have a lovely rapport,” Podeswa told the Daily Beast. “But the great thing is he kind of deserved to be there, in a way, because he’s a lovely performer. The role required gifts that he has. And he looks right in the show; he fits into the fabric of the show.”
Podeswa added that Sheeran has been “acting for a little while; he takes it very seriously.”
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The online backlash also prompted speculation as to whether Sheeran deleted his Twitter account over it. At some point after the “Game of Thrones” premiere, his account disappeared. He soon returned and his tweets before April 2015 have been removed.
Sheeran has previously alluded to the hate he gets online to explain why he only uses Twitter to cross-post his Instagram photos; Twitter is a place for “saying mean things” and he was trying to “work out why people dislike me so much,” he told Britain’s Sun tabloid.
One of the old tweets Sheeran deleted is one from 2013 congratulating Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody for his own brief “Game of Thrones” cameo.
Despite any backlash, Sheeran seems to be on an acting roll. He’ll lend his speaking — and singing — voice to a musician character in an upcoming “Simpsons” episode.
“This year continues to be surreal and amazing,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram.
Source:- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/07/19/upset-about-ed-sheeran-on-game-of-thrones-the-director-says-he-deserved-to-be-there/?utm_term=.874753903361
