The wonderful Natalie Dormer, who has spent the last week or so engaged in a tireless campaign to become the internet’s new BFF, has dared to address a question about Game Of Thrones that troubles and perplexes many fans – where the hell are all the penises?
In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, while promoting her role in Mockingjay, Dormer was asked point-blank whether she believes Thrones could use “more dick” to balance out the vast array of boobage on display every week.
Dormer, who plays Lady Margaery Tyrell on the show, answered with a most enthusiastic ‘yes’. “Well, during the first season Alfie, Richard, and several of the men got naked – although not all the way,” she said.
“I suppose it’s just the rules of broadcast television, isn’t it? I think Thrones has been better than your average show with the equality, but they could definitely ramp it up! Absolutely.”
While there have been one or two meat popsicles on the show – most notably Theon’s, before it was cruelly ripped away from him – they’re mostly implied rather than seen, a’la whatever magical peen Podrick is supposedly packing.
Constant female frontal nudity is a well-established part of the Thrones TV universe – Neil Marshall, who has directed episodes of the show in the past, mentioned how producers pressured him to include more of it for “the perv side of the audience.”
George R.R. Martin, if you’re reading this from atop your massive pile of money, can you maybe do us a solid and put some pressure on the producers to give the other perv side of the audience a little taste of Westeros’s finest bratwurst next year?
Just something to think about.
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