Exciting casting news about "Game of Thrones" next season from HBO at the recent Comic-Con. They've got Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, otherwise known as Diana Rigg, playing the matriarch of the Tyrells. As Huffington Post reports:
"Diana Rigg of the classic British series "The Avengers" joins "Game of Thrones" as Lady Olenna Tyrell, "The Queen of Thorns." She is the grandmother of the aristocrats Loras and Margaery Tyrell and the matriarch of the powerful Tyrell clan."
Let's recall that Margaery Tyrell is the lady, played by Natalie Dormer (who also played Anne Boleyn in "The Tudors"), who offered herself in marriage to the horrid King Joffrey (actually her brother offered her, but it's pretty obvious Margaery was in on the deal). I expect that Margaery's expertise in the marital arts will blow young Joffrey's mind. Can't wait to find out if I'm right. And watching Dame Enid go face-to-face with Margaery at some point in the next season will be a match made in fantasy/sci-fi heaven.
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