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sxpiosexualx · 7 years

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Keep calm Jonsa fam, acting is a profession.

[note: this has pro-Jonsa bits I promise]

One thing I keep seeing, and I’m bringing this up now because it’s just appeared on our tag recently, is that a lot of people cannot seem to separate the actors and actresses from their characters. I'm not even going to bring up the whole K*milia situation because that is a mess. No, I’m only going to highlight and emphasise that acting is a profession. These are real people who are being paid to portray these characters. Yes, though that does mean they have to understand how their characters’ mind works, that doesn’t mean that what they answer in interviews represent what their characters would answer - because they are not their characters.

So when we’re being presented with a situation like Kit(the actor!) answering a “Fuck, Marry, Kill” question, you need to remember one of two things; (i) this is his opinion - the opinion of an actor that’s quite literally grown by his cast mates, and (ii) they are not going to give any spoilers away.

You need to remember that when an actor/actress is given their scripts a few months in advance, that’s all their given - the script for the season. There is no endgame outline, heck, even D&D didn’t know the endgame of the series when they first decided to produce it. However, when the cast does promotional interviews before the premier, trust that they(of course, by logic) already know what happens to their characters in that season(because... they’ve acted it out), but also that they have to keep things to themselves, otherwise they would be spoiling the entire viewing experience for the fans.

In the case of promotional interviews, they exist solely to promote the series before it airs. This means, creating hype and trying to push the viewers to adopt a certain idea of how things will go down, especially when it’s done with the intention of misguiding them. We saw this with Jon Snow’s resurrection, and again with Starkbowl. Kit knew he was coming back, but he had to lie. They all have to(remember Maisie Williams saying Sansa would die in S7?). That's why there is a difference in how certain actors answer their interview questions depending on whether their work has premiered.

Also, figuratively speaking, if you were to set up the biggest red herring to ever occur - 20 years in the making, and something that most people are anticipating - you would expect the cast and crew to be under some sort of obligation to hype it up. Just as important is the fact that though the actor/actress may already know what’s to happen to their character since they’ve received their script, it doesn’t necessarily mean they know what happens to the rest of the characters - their own cast mates. Remember that little letter Sophie Turner wrote to Kit when she thought he was really not coming back to set? Exactly.

Take notice of how they’ve been hyping up this idea of J0nerys, having Jon and D*ny be the centre of attention in promotional pictures for the longest time, both these actors saying they would go for each other in interviews, etc. Yet right after S7E07(b0atbang!) they both mocked the idea: cue the actors fake gagging. Once it was out there, they were relieved of this responsibility to keep up the hype to an extent. Were they allowed to say whether or not this tryst would end up crashing and burning? Of course not - even they don’t know that yet(unless D&D trusted them enough to keep the endgame points hush hush).

Surprisingly though, one theory that none of the cast/crew has seemed to answer(or entertain) is Jonsa. Why not? This ship has garnered way more attention than even Gendrya and that’s somewhat been discussed at an angle with Joe Dempsie(the actor who portrays Gendry). Even the ‘Varys is a Merman’ speculation has been brought up once before and that’s a total reach. So why, my friends, have they not addressed one of the bigger theories about endgame? One of the actual ongoing theories that have plenty of meta and quotes to back it up? My guess is that if Jonsa was really endgame, they would not want that idea to have ever occurred to the casual viewer. Why? Shock value, to keep up the hype for a certain possible red herring, to keep their audience in the shadow so that whatever they give us ends up being taken as a huge plot twist... etc. Cheap tactics, yes, but was R+L=J ever brought up in interviews with the cast before it was made canon on the show?

So, no antis, I’m not on the verge of a breakdown just because Sophie Turner - the actress who portrays Sansa - let out that she thinks Jon and D*enerys will end up birthing a beautiful T*rgaryen baby back in season 6. Whoop de doo, she predicted that the most anticipated and cliche pairing would hook up - who would’ve thought! Oh wait, we all assumed that would happen from day 1. No surprises there. [Not to discredit Sophie for her acting skills or her ability to understand her character because she does those things perfectly well, but she made an assumption about two separate characters based on what she’s seen as a viewer - she has not read the source material and for that I cannot expect her, as an actor portraying a different character, to be able to come to a plausible conclusion to the story. In fact, only one remaining cast member has read ASOIAF - Gwendoline Christie(Brienne of Tarth). The rest have no idea up until this point, what would happen to their characters. And honestly, it’s not their fault? You can’t always expect the actors to fully know the source material especially if they were cast at a very young age - Sophie was 13. I’ve been in productions before where the entire cast had no idea what the narrative was about, so it’s not a shock.]

Lastly, please don’t for a second think that the opinions of the cast will affect the outcome of the story. The ink is(somewhat) dry. GRRM isn’t going to change the progression of the story or the endpoints that required years and years of him carefully placing easter eggs and foreshadowings and extensive fictional history, just because an actor wants his character to end up marrying a different character. Heck, even D&D don’t care about what the actors want for their characters - Ian McElhinney(Barristan Selmy) begged them to not kill off his character who is still very much alive in the books. However now, we are presented with a situation where D&D are obligated to have the same endgame as GRRM. This is why we see so many changes being made, and so many characters doing things that seem out of character to us as viewers; because they have to reach the same destination, but they’ve already taken a different route. This is why Sansa took over Jeyne Poole’s arc with the whole Ramsay plot, so she could get to Jon sooner and they could lay the groundwork for what I can only assume to be Jonsa in the making. At this point in production - and this is the main criticism Season 7 got, you have to understand that D&D have sacrificed good writing because they’re scrambling to get to the end points - it apparently no longer matters how they get there, as prominently evident with the whole Beyond The Wall sequence(in which they really really just wanted to showcase a wight bear and abused/relied too much on suspension of disbelief, throwing logic out the window).

So rest easy babes, production team and cast is always going to tease us and troll us. Don’t let the anti’s ruin your experience. And remember above all, canon or not, we’re a pretty f*king tight community and it’s always gonna be a joy to stick around for all the creative content and meta we get out of the fandom.

#jonsa #jon x sansa #actuallyjonsa #acting is acting #learn the difference #not shaken one bit

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