HBO announces first extras open casting call for Game of Thrones Season 6 in Girona, Spain.
According to the Winter is Coming, HBO casting directors for ‘Game of Thrones‘ are now looking for extras to work on Season 6 of ‘Game of Thrones’.
Several weeks ago it was announced that Game of Thrones would be heading to Spain to film scenes for Season 6. Rumors about casting dates for extras have been circulating online, but now casting directors will be holding an open casting call in Girona, Spain.
Modexpor International, the company responsible for casting extras for the show’s sixth season, recently posted a casting call on Twitter giving aspiring actors all the information they need to know.
‘Game of Thrones’ is extremely popular in Spain, so Modexpor International took care to say that they will not be looking more than 1200 men and 1200 women. The casting call will be open from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM on both June 29 and June 30. Filming will occur in Girona between September 3 and 18 of this year.
Here are the casting tips translated by Winteriscoming.net:
- Modexpor is looking for “Men and women 18 to 65 years of all races.” This makes sense, as the show will need people of all ages to fill out the population of whatever Westerosi city Girona will stand in for. In general, it wants local people from the area.
- Preference will be given to “thin” people, because it’s TV, and there’s a call for “men with good physical condition (not bodybuilders).” It wants “men with short hair/women with long hair. People with very modern hairstyles will be removed from the casting.” So no vulgar words shaved into the back of your head, extras. That’s not medieval.
- “The hair color should be uniform, without streaks, not worth these hair colors: verder, red, violet, azil, pink, Californian wicks, etc …”
- “Men should be prepared to let grow or cut your facial hair.”
Also, no one with tattoos will be admitted.
According to the casting call notice, casting dates for extras in Peñíscola will be announced shortly.
Filming will take place in the cities of Girona and Peniscola. For season 5, the show shot in Osuna and Seville, with the latter city reporting a huge increase in tourism as a result of the show. Thousands of background extras applied last year when a casting call went out in Spain.
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