
Ned Stark to Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) about Bran Stark: “He won’t be a boy forever. Meanwhile, the White Walkers make their presence known beyond the Wall, while across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) is given three dragon eggs at her wedding to Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa). From the moment Robert demands to pay his respects to Ned Stark’s (Sean Bean) late sister, Lyanna Stark (Aisling Franciosi), in the crypts, it’s clear there are some unresolved issues between the three families - something that becomes even more obvious when Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) pushes Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) out of a window for walking in on him with his twin sister, Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). It doesn’t take long for things to sour once the royal entourage arrives. He was so concerned for me and was like, 'What can I do? Who can I talk to?' It went on for way too long." "Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon" is available on October 6.The death of Jon Arryn (John Standing), who serves as the Hand of the King, brings King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) and the Lannister clan north to visit the Starks at Winterfell.

We went back and forth slowly, not throwing it out there all at once, asking questions like, 'So when Matt's on the set, how does he usually behave?' Rob was all, 'What‐what‐what's wrong?!' We told him we're going to have to step in and take over the episode because it's turned into such a mess." Shakman recalled McElhenney's reaction.

"He would feel so guilty because he recommended him. "We thought it would be funny if we told Rob that it was not working out with Matt and that he was a total disaster," Weiss recalls. He ended up directing two episodes "Eastwatch" and "The Spoils of War." The latter earned the season's highest rating on IMDb at 9.8. The prank set up by Benioff and Weiss involved taking up on McElhenney's suggestion to let Matt Shakman direct for season seven. Both wrote an episode and appeared in cameos for the comedy series while McElhenney made an appearance. Another prank involved Rob McElhenney from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on FXX, who's friends with Benioff and Weiss and frequent collaborator. The story with the original pilot was the cast and crew held a wrap party not knowing if they would ever see each other again should HBO not pick up the series, which, fortunately, it was. They started crying." "Then they came to the real wrap party and cried through that - because they thought they might never see each other again," showrunner Dan Weiss adds.

"So we told them they were going to have a special underage wrap party at McDonald's. "Here's a minor prank we pulled during season one: We told Maisie and Sophie that since they were underage, they couldn't come to the pilot wrap party," says showrunner David Benioff. The two actresses formed a bond with one another early and forged on for eight seasons.
