Pop singer Lily Allen claimed that she turned down an offer to make a brief cameo in the wildly popular fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. She declined because she felt there was “too much incest” involved in the role.
She stated during her Ask Me Anything session on Reddit that she had been asked to co-star with her brother, Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy. As they ride a horse together, Greyjoy meets a woman from his past and fondles her inside and outside her clothes. All this, only finding out later that she is his sister.
Why Lily Allen Declined the Game of Thrones Role?
The 38-year-old singer recently revealed, via a Reddit Ask Me Anything chat, that she was offered a cameo on the hit series Game of Thrones alongside her brother Alfie Allen, who plays Theon Greyjoy on the hit HBO show.
Allen explained,
“I’ve been asked to do a Game of Thrones cameo, they asked me if I’d be interested in playing Theon’s sister, and I felt uncomfortable because I would have had to go on a horse and he would have touched me up and s–t. Once they told me what was entailed, I said no thanks.”
She was approached for season two episode, The Night Remembers, but her part ended up being played by Gemma Whelan.
Lily Allen went on to say that she was not interested in playing her brother’s unintentional fling. Rather, she would have wanted to make a musical cameo appearance on the HBO series.
Alfie Allen was most recognized as the lead character in a song on Allen’s debut before he got the part to play Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones in 2011.
Lily Allen’s Clsim ‘not true’, Said Brother
In response to Lily Allen’s decision to turn down the role against him, Alfie Allen told Vulture, via the Independent, that her claims were “not true.”
“Gemma Whelan was always their first choice for the part,” Alfie Allen explained. Referring to Lily Allen’s role in the show, he told Vulture: ”The only thing I’m going to say on this is that’s not true.”
The pop star earlier revealed that she had turned down the opportunity to play Yara, the on-screen sister of Alfie Allen’s character Theon Greyjoy.
Sibling rivalry at its peak, it seemed.
Source: Nicki Swift
