Jacob Anderson & Liam Cunningham Have Some Things to Say About Game of Thrones

Both Jacob Anderson and Liam Cunningham dropped some very interesting tidbits about Game of Thrones’ upcoming season recently.

Note: No spoilers here, but, as always, plenty of Game of Thrones speculation. 

Now that filming of Game of Thrones’ seventh season has (mostly) come to an end, it’s time for the next phase of the off-season to begin in earnest. We’re talking, of course, about the hype-building phase, where everyone gives little cryptic clues here and there and drives the fanbase to a new level of speculation and sheer excitement, so that they metaphorically burst as soon as the glorious strains of Ramin Djawadi’s theme song kick season 7 off.

Even some of the somewhat less well-known actors (less well-known being a relative term here) on the show have boarded the hype train. Enter Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) and Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm). Speaking to IGN, the two dutifully handed out some fabulous teases.

Anderson primarily focused on the abbreviated nature of the seventh season. IGN quotes him as saying that he’s “surprised that they’re even able to fit in what they’re even fitting in.” We’ve previously speculated that season 7 may have some truly massive episodes. Of course, Anderson could be referring to the amount of story spoilers we know about. There are, after all, quite a lot of them.

At the same time, though, it’s easy to think there may be some long episodes in our near future. Hope springs eternal.

Now we get to Cunningham. He did more of the talking. First off, he teased meeting “some people who I normally only meet on a red carpet,” implying pretty clearly that Ser Davos will have some new people to gruffly be the voice of reason to or at, as the case may be. Granted, we figured that was coming, too.

Then, though, he made an interesting point about the women of Game of Thrones.

"“What I love about the show is in a sense it’s a sort of medieval patriarchal society, but the most dangerous people in our show are the women. They are the chiefs! […] The women are extraordinary, extraordinary, extraordinarily three-dimensional, as they should be.”"

Any actor who drops the word patriarchal has my attention. He also specifically named Cersei, Daenerys, and Arya. It’s tough not to read too much into things. However, those three women all seem poised to make big moves — even the newly-returned Arya — this season. Notably, he didn’t say anything about Sansa, though. Could it be that the eldest Stark daughter fades a bit more to the background with her younger sister back in Westeros?

Next: GoT S7: A Cold Day of Spoilers

Again, though, it’s all speculation at this point. We’ll just have to wait and see.