Who Will Be the Next Great 'Game of Thrones' Guest Star?
So we are in the penultimate season of Game of Thrones, and apparently penultimate seasons are when you go bananas with unexpected left-field guest stars. Remember when Geddy Lee of Rush visited the How I Met Your Mother gang in Season Eight? Or when Selma Blair and Freddie Prinze, Jr. swung through Central Perk in Season Nine of Friends? (Remember Freddie Prinze, Jr.?) We're already off and running on the GoT celebrity cameo tip with the season premiere's Ed Sheeran moment, and we are hungry for more. Here are a few surprise guest appearances we'd like to see in Westeros.
Lorde
She is regal, she is raven-haired, she is an age that one cannot really pinpoint. Can't you just see her in a complicated braid situation, giving battle advice to Daenerys and Tyrion? Wouldn't she ride a dragon in a fierce yet effortless way? She already dances like she's enduring some kind of medieval torture; why not give her a walk-on?
Hugh Grant
There is room in this show's sprawling universe for a charming, stammering, slightly disheveled rake, isn't there? It can't all be grunts and pelts and beheadings. We need someone with some grown-man charm, and Hugh Grant is the only British actor who hasn't been employed by this show or the Harry Potter series. Get on it.
Aaron Carter
Pro: Could play a convincing White Walker. Con: May actually be a White Walker.
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani
They're a real-life couple, you know! And Game of Thrones, for all its strengths, can be so dour. Why not give them a moment in the middle of every episode to just talk? "I'm scared of those White Walkers, y'all!" "I know! They're like, what even are they?" They could allow us to take a breath, while giving the show the down-home, folksy-yet-fashion-forward feeling it's been missing.
Stephen Miller
Since Joffrey's demise, there has been a real lack of detestable children on this show. Miller can fix that. You don't even have to write him a part! Just put a picture of him in the corner of the screen and let us feel the douche-rage our bodies have been craving.
Tommy Wiseau
With the forthcoming release of The Disaster Artist, Wiseau is really having a moment. Plus he might already have greyscale, which would save the make-up department valuable time.
Migos
Migos is everywhere. Migos is everything. Migos did a guest verse on the phone call I just had with my mother. What I'm saying is they're going to make a cameo on Game of Thrones whether HBO wants them to or not. Might as well just sit back and enjoy it.
Neil Patrick Harris
He is multi-talented and much loved. A Series of Unfortunate Events reveals that he is comfortable in complicated makeup. Plus, he hasn't had a chance to play the gay genius villain that we suspect lies just beneath the genial surface.
Tucker Carlson
There is a German word-backpfeifengesicht-that loosely translates to "face that invites a fist." Tucker Carlson has such a face, and then he goes on his show and he contorts that face into something…more. Each night on Fox News, Tucker Carlson serves up gewaltpremiumkabelgesicht: a face that invites a detailed and realistic premium cable disemboweling.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
I don't know. I just miss the guy.
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