Photo: Aaron Rodgers/Twitter
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Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers/Twitter
Fans may have suspected Rodgers would be involved with the show after he dropped a hint at the beginning of the season.
“Tiger Wins. @Bucks playoff opener. GOT Final Season begins. #dreamsunday” he wrote alongside anepic photo of himself sitting on the iron throne.
02of 09Chris StapletonChris Stapleton InstagramThe country star made a cameo as a Wildling-turned-White Walker during that epic battle for Winterfell. Stapleton’s scene also featured Kit Harington’s Jon Snow who tried to charge the Night King. Pregnant wife Morgane Stapleton proudly raved about his cameo onInstagram, writing, “Episode 3….My wildling is a white walker,” along with a video in which she says, “There you are!”
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Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton Instagram
The country star made a cameo as a Wildling-turned-White Walker during that epic battle for Winterfell. Stapleton’s scene also featured Kit Harington’s Jon Snow who tried to charge the Night King. Pregnant wife Morgane Stapleton proudly raved about his cameo onInstagram, writing, “Episode 3….My wildling is a white walker,” along with a video in which she says, “There you are!”
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David S. Cohen
The CIA has officially infiltrated Westeros. The former deputy director of the CIA made a surprise appearance as an unnamed resident of Winterfell in the second episode of season eight. In the short scene, Cohen was served a bowl of hot soup from Ser Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) as the North prepared to go to war against the Night King and his army of the dead.
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Rob McElhenney
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05of 09Of Monsters and MenThe five-member band from Iceland can be spotted in two major episodes, playing the role of a traveling band. Their first appearance happens on season 4, episode 2 during the infamous Purple Wedding reception, which ends with Joffrey Baratheon getting poisoned to death. The second takes place on season 6, episode 6 during the Braavos production ofThe Bloody Hand.“We’d asked our manager a long time ago to ask them if we could be extras in it while they were shooting in Iceland, but nothing really happened, and our touring schedule was pretty crazy at that time anyways so we sort of just disappeared,” the band toldWSJabout how they got cast in the series. “But apparently they noticed our interest and the ball started rolling. I’m pretty sure our manager just kept asking and asking and finally they must have given in.”
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Of Monsters and Men
The five-member band from Iceland can be spotted in two major episodes, playing the role of a traveling band. Their first appearance happens on season 4, episode 2 during the infamous Purple Wedding reception, which ends with Joffrey Baratheon getting poisoned to death. The second takes place on season 6, episode 6 during the Braavos production ofThe Bloody Hand.
“We’d asked our manager a long time ago to ask them if we could be extras in it while they were shooting in Iceland, but nothing really happened, and our touring schedule was pretty crazy at that time anyways so we sort of just disappeared,” the band toldWSJabout how they got cast in the series. “But apparently they noticed our interest and the ball started rolling. I’m pretty sure our manager just kept asking and asking and finally they must have given in.”
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Steve Love
HBO
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Mastodon
“I watched my best friends Brent and Bill, murdered right in front of me as I myself was stabbed in the stomach and had my throat slit multiple times, and I didn’t mind at all,” drummer Brann Dailor told the outlet. “It made me love being in Mastodon even more. We are more than privileged and honored to have been a part of one of the greatest stories ever told on film, and the catering wasn’t bad either.”
08of 09Sigur RósThe Icelandic group’s members Orri Páll Dýrason, Georg Hólm and Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson were Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell’s Purple Wedding reception band who performed “The Rains of Castamere,” arguably one ofThrones' most famous songs, only to getswiftly booted from the gig.Once the episode aired, the group sent out atweetsaying, “For the record, all the vocals are jónsi’s,” with a link to the song’sofficial YouTube page.
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Sigur Rós
The Icelandic group’s members Orri Páll Dýrason, Georg Hólm and Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson were Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell’s Purple Wedding reception band who performed “The Rains of Castamere,” arguably one ofThrones' most famous songs, only to getswiftly booted from the gig.
Once the episode aired, the group sent out atweetsaying, “For the record, all the vocals are jónsi’s,” with a link to the song’sofficial YouTube page.
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Ed Sheeran
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Although hisThronesdebutwasn’t completely a hit, Sheeran had this to say about his brief moment in theGoTspotlight: “No one wants to see me come back. I wanted to be a cameo in it, and I’ve done the cameo … I’m cool with it, though. I enjoyed it.”
source: people.com
