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In our previous lesson on the Dothraki language, we covered some basic grammar and sentence formation. Now, let’s put your knowledge to practical use.

Though it isn't advisable to travel on the Havazh (Dothraki Sea) unescorted, if one does so, one is more than likely to encounter a Dothraki fonakasar (hunting party). In such a situation, one must not panic: The Dothraki despise the fearful. Provided one is not killed on the spot, one may be fortunate enough to be greeted by the idrik (the leader of the hunt) in a manner as follows:

Achrakh yeroon zireyesee hrazef anni, zhey ifak!
"Your stink offends my horse, foreigner!"

Responding in just the right way is crucial. One should be respectful, yet firm. Offend a Dothraki lajak (warrior), and he is likely to respond with his arakh; come across as weak or submissive, though, and one will likely find oneself taken as a slave. One possible response might be:

Athchomar chomakea, zhey lajaki vezhveni. Anha goshok mehrazef shafki athiroe; me haja lekhaan k'athtihari.
"Respect to you, great warriors. I'm sure your horse will survive; he seems strong enough."

Provided one's head is still attached to one's shoulders at this point, it would be best to offer the idrik, at the very least, a gift (anything but one's sword, unless one has a back up on hand):

Fichi jin hlak kherikhi. Mori nroji ma nizhi. Me azho anni shafkea.
"Take these leather gloves. They are thick and tough. It is my gift to you."

And if this has gone well:

Hash anha laz adothrak shafki, hash ashilok khal shafki.
"As I can ride by your side, so shall I meet your khal."

Pleasantries like "may" and "please" are foreign to the Dothraki: Only respectful demands are heeded.

At this point, the idrak (one hopes) would lead the way to the rest of the khalasar. Whether this will be a stroke of good luck or ill remains to be seen!

Download the below PDF for a full guide to the Dothraki vocabulary and grammar we've covered so far:

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/storage/dothraki-language-guide.pdf

What attracted you to F and how did you get involved?
Roxanne McKee (RM): Well, I like horror films – I always have done. I've been keen on them since I was little – I actually used to love all the Freddie films. There's something about them, sitting on the edge of your seat and having a shock and feeling the adrenaline rush that's exciting, so to be a part of something like that, I thought would be fun. And it was, it was really interesting to get involved and have all the prosthetics applied. And it was just a small cameo role so it wasn't going to impinge on my time or anything like that. And it was lovely to be a part of it. And I thought it was a good script and that was it. And there were great actors involved as well, like David Schofield and Ruth Gemmell, you know – it's a privilege to be a part of anything like that.

there's something about sitting on the edge of your seat and feeling the adrenaline rush...
Had you been looking for something like that?
RM: No, I hadn't specifically been looking for horror. I had made a concerted effort to try and look for stuff that was just different when I came out of Hollyoaks, just because that was my reason for leaving Hollyoaks. Because I had a fantastic time there but I wanted to try new things and open up the path a bit for me and see what else was out there and play different sorts of characters. So when this came along it was just something interesting and different.

How did the experience of working on F compare to working on Hollyoaks and other stuff you've worked on?
RM: It's totally different, because when you work on a soap you can do up to twelve scenes a day, whereas when you work on a film you do like one scene. People don't realise how hard soap work is, so you've really got to give credit where credit's due – soap actors are learning twelve, thirteen, fourteen scenes of an evening and then going in the next day and doing them and then that carries on each day. Whereas with a film you work, say, over a two week period and you might be in three days. With this, it's a cameo role so I'm only in it a small amount, so the filming schedule's a lot lighter. But the nice thing and the thing that's similar is the meeting different crews and making friends with different people. The other thing is, with a soap you establish friendships and then you keep your friendships because you're there a couple of years. But when you're doing jobs sporadically, it's not quite the same – you establish these friendships and then you don't necessarily see people so much again. You maybe see the actors but not always the crew or maybe you go on another job and they're there, which has happened with me recently, which was nice. But obviously you don't have that long-term friendship in quite the same way.

You play the character in the gym, is that right? That prosthetic that you had to wear was pretty hideous. What was that like?
RM: Yeah, it was crazy. It was amazing. That was so enjoyable, because it was so different to anything I've ever had. I mean, I've had bruises applied [laughs] and arm bandages and things like that but never a full-on ripped-off jaw. So I had a whole head-cast applied and that was weird, sitting underneath that and not being able to breathe properly. It was amazing – it was an exciting, really exciting experience and I still have the jaw. But the bloody annoying thing was that when we were all finished up for the night after we'd filmed that scene, it took them a good few hours to remove everything off me, because I had cuts all over my body, you know, this fake skin that had been applied. I mean it looked amazing – even for me to look at it, I was like, “Jesus!”

It looked really nasty in the film, I agree.
RM: Yeah, well, you know that scene at the end? I couldn't breathe. So I'm crying – because you have to keep your mouth closed, because otherwise you'd see my mouth. And then obviously that wouldn't work, for the fact that the bottom half of the jaw is hanging right down. So I had to keep my mouth closed and then cry and so I couldn't breathe! So I'm not breathing in that last scene. I don't think I've told anyone that yet. I'm not actually breathing. [laughs] So if everyone could really feel for me, that would be great!

I was going to ask what was the hardest scene to film, but I assume that was?
RM: Yeah, the not breathing. And then also when I was crawling along the floor it was really bloody painful, because that was a – you know one of those sticky floors that you can polish? And I'm crawling along with shorts on – so I've got bare legs and the blood is sticky and sweet, as well actually, not that I was eating it, but it was obviously in my mouth. So when you're crawling along, you're sticking to the floor and your skin is almost ripping along the floor. So as I'm moving along, that genuinely is painful.

Obviously, the scenes you did are one thing but do you have a favourite scene in the film otherwise?
RM: I do love Finlay Robertson – I just think he's hilarious. I think they all are – they were such a nice bunch of people. I was quite excited when I saw David Schofield, and Ruth Gemmell as well, I knew. I like the scene where Finlay is on the front desk and he won't let Eliza use the phone – or he lets her use the phone and then he's a bit weird and pervy with her. I find that really funny. I just find all his facial expressions really funny. So any scene with him. NOT the scene where the guy is in the wheelie bin and on fire – that's horrific! That's absolutely horrendous.

I thought it was really interesting that none of the deaths actually happen onscreen.
RM: It was an important part of the film as well. I think that was Johannes's intention. I think at the beginning, maybe he wanted that to happen and then he kind of realised, maybe when he was editing it, that it didn't need to happen.

So did they film more of a death scene with you that didn't get used?
RM: No, they didn't. I remember Johannes saying that there was more – he didn't want to show the deaths but there was more violence. But certainly not with mine – I mean, with the jaw thing, I don't think you needed any violence. You could see the result. But I think there were more gratuitous moments than were shown, originally, but he chose to keep them out when he edited it because he felt it wasn't necessary and I don't think it was necessary. I mean it was good the way it was – he did a really good job.

How long were you on the film for?
RM: Not very long. It was filmed over night shoots so you're booked for a certain period of time, say a couple of weeks and then you go in the odd couple of days over those weeks, but I don't strictly know how many times I went. A few times, you know, whatever it takes to film a couple of scenes – it's not a huge amount of time.

You don't really interact with anyone else in the cast, do you?
RM: No. Just Ruth and David. Ruth, to me, is one of those faces – she's a jobbing actress and she's somebody that pops up in lots of things and I think she's great. She was really, really nice as well – they all were. A lovely, lovely bunch of actors.

What are you working on at the moment?
RM: I'm working on an HBO drama called Game of Thrones. I'm Doreah, the kind of ex-courtesan hand-maiden – actually still kind of working as a courtesan.

There's a lot of excitement around that. Is that the George R. R. Martin thing?
RM: Yes, it is and I've met him and he's lovely. And it's so exciting to be a part of such a huge project. And the sets – oh my God, you've got to watch it. It's incredible. It's out of this world. It's amazing, so watch it.

There are plenty of gay characters in A Song of Fire and Ice, a series of fantasy novels currently being adapted by HBO for television, the first season of which will be called A Game of Thrones. But what was a little more subtle in the books will be much more apparent in the series.

The same-sex relationship between the characters of Loras Tyrell (Finn Jones) and Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony) will be very apparent by the third episode in the ten-episode first season, which bows April 17th.

Executive producer and series writer D.B. Weiss tells AfterElton.com, “I think there will be a scene mid-season that will make you very happy.”

Renly is “gay in the books, too,” says George R.R. Martin, the author of the bestselling novels. But online chatter suggests that not every reader picked that fact up.

“I never meant to make it a mystery,” Martin says. “I like to handle things subtly. I couldn’t ever actually say, ‘such-and-such is gay,’ because, as I’m sure you know, the word wasn’t invented until the 60s. And I’m talking medieval times, and I’m not going to say, ‘so-and-so is gay.’ But I thought it was pretty clear in context.”

Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell

The character of Renly is non-stereotypical in many respects, a handsome, charismatic warrior and leader. Was Martin intentionally intending to defy stereotypes?

“Yes,” he says. “But there are other gay characters in the books that are villainous or that are bad in various ways. I think every group has good and bad people in it, whether we’re talking an ethnic group or a religious group. So I try to portray a variety, especially when I have hundreds of characters. So I can do a gay hero and a gay villain and a gay coward and a gay brave person, just as I can do fat people who are good and bad, and so on.

“I do have lesbian characters in the books, and bisexual characters too,” he adds. “The Red Viper of Dorne [in book three] is bisexual. I try to reflect a whole spectrum of humanity as best I can.”

The plan is for each season of the series to tell the events of each book, four of which have been written so far, out of a total of seven books planned.

“One of the luxuries of a show like this, one of the upsides to it, is you can really get a chance to dig in deep to the characters and explore who they and what makes them, and why they’re doing the things they’re doing,” Weiss says. “We had two great actors, Finn [Jones] and Gethin [Anthony] who play Loras [Tyrell] and Renly [Baratheon]. [Their being gay is] an integral part of who they are, their relationship to each other.”

Weiss gives credit to HBO for being allowed to explore the characters’ sexuality. “One of the great things about [that channel] is that they give you the freedom to show full people, and sexuality is an integral part of who they are. It’s really important to present their sexuality openly and honestly, even if they aren’t able to in the [fictional fantasy] world in which they live.”

Better still, the gay characters will become more important in the second season, based on the second book. “They have a bigger role than they do in the first,” Weiss says.

Meanwhile, preview screenings suggest that one of the show’s more villainous characters, Viserys Targaryen [Harry Lloyd], reads something like an effeminate gay villain: very blond, affected, and cowardly.

“He’s actually not [gay],” Weiss says.

el de la foto es Loras??????? no me jodasssss que decepción no me lo imaginaba asi