Van Houten suggested to Entertainment Weekly that her character might not actually know how her magical powers work. It's only when the Red Priestess takes off her gem that her true self is revealed, and the necklace also seemingly protected her from being poisoned back in the Season 2 premiere. We always wanted to show her true age, and were waiting for the right moment." The other big question raised by the Melisandre reveal was whether or not she draws her magic from her necklace. Martin about her, she’s supposed to be several centuries old. Here you feel like she’s very old without putting a number on it." "There have been a few hints before that Melisandre is much older than she appears," showrunner David Benioff said in the premiere's "Inside the Episode." "Going back to a very early conversation with George R.R. So if you try to create that, then you’re creating something that looks beyond our known reality. Because what does a 400-year-old person look like? We don’t know. "We were limited by choosing to use a real person rather than a complete CG creation. "The idea is there’s an indefinite indeterminate quality that she could be ancient," he explained. R'hllor is Lord of Light, Jon Snow, and it is given to his servants to weave with it, as others weave with thread." There's also a line that says, "Melisandre had practiced her art for years beyond count, and she had paid the price," implying that she is far older than her attractive exterior suggested.ĭirector Jeremy Podeswa told Entertainment Weekly that the show doesn't want to reveal Melisandre's exact age. As she told Jon Snow in A Dance with Dragons, "Call it what you will. There is some evidence from Martin's novels that Melisandre uses a glamor regularly. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire source material. However, there has been some basis for speculation about Melisandre's age thanks to hints in George R.R. Even if people had suggested that Melisandre was older than she appeared, the reveal of her true self came as a shock to many. That storyline remained unconfirmed for four more years. "I don’t how old she is, but she’s way over 100 years, so she is a wiser spirit, in a way," said the actress before her arrival on the show in Season 2, "but it’s difficult for me to say too much because A - we want it to at least stay sort of a mystery and B - I didn’t read the books."Ĭarice van Houten as Melisandre on Game of ThronesNot long after, actor Oliver Ford Davies (who played the short-lived Maester Cressen) told Flicks in the City Melisandre was somewhere around 400 years old. But just how old is she? It turns out that the answer to that question isn't actually a well-kept secret.īack in 2012, before she even appeared on Game of Thrones, van Houten told Access Hollywood that her character is well over a century old. So, uh, Melisandre is a bit older than her Carice van Houten-exterior suggests.
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