Naomi Watts is pretty much feeling how all of us would be feeling ahead of the new
Game Of Thrones prequel – absolutely terrified. The actress is leading the cast in an unknown role for spin-off series, tentatively titled Bloodmoon.
While she’s used to being successful anyway, Naomi knows that what she’s about to get involved in will be a whole new level. Speaking to Net-A-Porter’s PorterEdit, she said: ‘I still have fears about [the show]. ‘I don’t really know what to prepare for.’ ‘I didn’t start watching until I was approached about this job,’ she continued.
‘But my brother [photographer Ben Watts], who is heavily into it, told me “Under no circumstances are you going to turn this down”.’ As a result, she ended up binge-watching the whole thing in three months – which takes some doing seeing as there’s eight seasons and every episode is an hour long.
Talk about dedication to the craft! The Bloodmoon pilot wrapped filming at the end of July, and now it will be up to HBO to see if it gets picked up to series.
But considering the hype around it, we’ll be pretty shocked if they turn it down. Bloodmoon is also currently just a working title, with a chance of it changing before finally coming to our screens (we’ll keep you updated as much as we can). According to George RR Martin, Bloodmoon will centre on Westeros hundreds of years before the time we know in Game Of Thrones. Fan theorists reckon that Naomi will be playing legend character Florys the Fox.