Different Cast for the Pilot
It’s hard to imagine a world without Michelle Fairley’s gutting performance at the Red Wedding or Emilia Clarke’s eyebrow acrobatics, but if the original “Game of Thrones” pilot (which was by all accounts a total flop) had made it to air, chances are we would have never seen either one, as it featured two entirely different actresses: accomplished stage performer Jennifer Ehle as Catelyn Stark, and “The Tudors’” Tamzin Merchant (pictured above) as Daenerys Targaryen.