For many in Northern Ireland, the filming of 'Game of Thrones' there has been “absolutely life-changing.'
On location in the countryside of Northern Ireland, a"Game of Thrones" cameraman photographs a sword-fight scene between Rory McCann, center, and Gwendoline Christie.
The most ambitious and most honored show of the decade “has pumped more than $250 million into the local economy since 2009, provided jobs and training for hundreds of crew members and spawned a thriving tourism trade. It helped transform Belfast into one of Europe’s most vital entertainment industry hubs and remade Northern Ireland’s image across the world.
Helen Sloan, who grew up in a small village called Ahoghill and spent eight seasons as the show’s stills photographer, recalls how people used to ask if she was a member of the IRA when she traveled abroad; now they ask her about “Game of Thrones.” The famous Harland and Wolff cranes tower over the "Game of Thrones" King's Landing set close to the Titanic Studios complex where the television series is filmed.But nearby was a cavernous building known as the Paint Hall, once used to put the finishing touches on huge ocean liners, including the doomed RMS Titanic. It was “scruffy and unpleasant,” Williams recalls, but it was big, with 90-foot ceilings that comfortably fit six “Game of Thrones” soundstages.
Extras planned vacations from work so they could come back to the series each season. They were known to be fiercely loyal to their fictional roles; some background actors who were cast as members of the Night’s Watch have been around since the pilot. The fantasy canines of the series — known as direwolves — have inspired entrepreneurial efforts. The Mulhall family owns a pair of 110-pound Northern Inuit dogs named Odin and Thor who appeared as direwolf puppies adopted by the Stark children in the series pilot. For about $65, tourists can trek to the lush Tollymore Forest to meet them. “Every time a plane flies overhead, my dad says, ‘Look, more tourists!’ ” says Caelan Mulhall, 23, who appeared as a Stark soldier in the show.
"Game of Thrones" fans stop for a picture on their way to Audleys field and castle in Strangford, Northern Ireland. Audleys field and castle was used for filming Season 1 as King Robert Baratheon and his retinue arrive at Winterfell. Conleth Hill and his siblings at Fairhead, near Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, in the 1970s. Ronan, in the yellow shoes, has won multiple Emmys for his sound mixing.After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, Hill worked steadily, with a breakthrough role in “Stones in his Pockets,” a dark comedy about a Hollywood movie that takes over a small town in Ireland.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II visits the throne room on the set of "Game of Thrones" in Belfast's Titanic Quarter, Northern Ireland, on June, 24, 2014.What’s more, the show has ended at a moment of political vulnerability. The open border with the Republic of Ireland has become a major sticking point in Brexit negotiations because of concerns that the reinstatement of checkpoints would fan tensions.
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