Gemma Whelan has been cast as Asha Greyjoy, but since her name sounds too much like someone else in the book, Osha, they have changed her name to Yara Greyjoy.
If you ask me, that name sucks monkeyballs. It sounds like Arya, and who the hell is Osha? Casting looks good though.
If you ask me, that name sucks monkeyballs. It sounds like Arya, and who the hell is Osha? Casting looks good though.
I suppose it makes sense (though "Yara" is a stupid name...maybe they want her to sound like a pirate?) since Asha and Osha are both peripheral enough at this point in the storyline for that to potentially be confusing. Arya is well-entrenched and by now she isn't really being called that much anyway
I didn't get confused by names in the first season (there were a bunch I just didn't know until I read the book) but I was confused early on because the actors playing Baelish and Renly (I think) looked enough alike to give me pause.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
HBO executives casts and changes the name of Asha Greyjoy.
- 02/08/2011 05:24:56 PM
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I have no big opinion
- 02/08/2011 05:42:35 PM
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It might sound too alike, but why change the name of a major character?
- 02/08/2011 05:56:56 PM
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Osha is the wildling who now (at the end of GoT) lives in winterfell as a servant
- 02/08/2011 06:01:36 PM
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how much older than Theon is supposed to be?
- 02/08/2011 09:56:00 PM
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Huh, I didn't even notice that they changed Robertin Arryn's name in the show?
- 03/08/2011 02:21:09 PM
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Re: Huh, I didn't even notice that they changed Robertin Arryn's name in the show?
- 03/08/2011 09:07:33 PM
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Neither did I. Strange.
- 03/08/2011 11:08:12 PM
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Why didn't they change Osha's?
- 07/08/2011 11:27:59 AM
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