Game of Thrones, again: the actors ages

[alexandral]

I have been wondering about this for ages: everyone in the series looks so much older than I have imagined them to be, practically everyone. It bothers me in few cases , especially with Cersei who is supposed to be this undenied beauty of her kingdom, but as much as I think Lena H. is a gorgeous woman, she is not beautiful enough. I am also not happy that The Hound is so much older (although I like how Rory McCann plays him), but I fear The Hound's story is not going to be quite the same as in the books anyways.

There was a very interesting post in Russian "Game of Thrones" community, here, by serebrenikoff.I added Bran's age myself.

In tangential note, whilst looking for GoT communities (as obsessed person I am), I also found French, Italian and Spanish GoT communities on Lj , which is awesome.

Here is the translated age table (please let me know if anything is not correct):

Character	book age	TV age	Actor age
Eddard Stark	35	40	52
Catelyn Stark	34	35	39
Robb Stark	14	17	25
Jon Snow	14	17	25
Sansa Stark	11	13	13
Arya Stark	9	11	11
Bran Stark	7	10	11(?)
Robert Baratheon	36	40	47
Joffrey Baratheon	13	13	18
Tyrion Lannister	24	30	40
Jaime Lannister	32	35	40
Cersei Lannister	32	35	37
Sandor Clegane	27 (?)		42
Theon Greyjoy	19	19	24
Viserys Targaryen	23	20	27
Daenerys Targaryen	13	15	22
Jorah Mormont	40	40	49

I wonder if it is just me or if the fact that so many characters are older bothers anyone else?

Also, some of the characters are not in the list, please let me know if you know the ages in the book and TV for:

Petyr Baelish
Lysa Arryn
Barristan Selmy
Renly Baratheon
Loras

Spoilers: Some book spoilers in the comments

Comments

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I can't say the changes really bother me, because in my head most of them look older anyway. And in the case of the children, I think they were just too young as written for a lot of what they did to seem believable to me. And on screen, watching a 13-year-old Dany essentially getting raped would have been too hard for people to stomach, imo. So I'm fine with the changes, and my occasional complaints with the casting are based on other things.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am different.
With kids, I agree with Dany and Sansa's being made a little older (they would have been too young for what was happening to them).

Bran - not so much. I adore the actor, but I feel making him older is another way of softening Cersei and Cersei/Jaime. It would have been much more distressing to see a cute 7-year old to be thrown out of the window than a teenage-y boy. This softening is probably one of my major disagreements with the series.

Where it comes to a big difference with me is adults. I must confess, as much as I like Ned's and Jaime's casting I still would have preferred (as in, liked it 10 times better :D) if they were portrayed as cloes to the book age as possible. And the same with everyone else as far as adults are concerned. It just the story has shifted into a story about middle-aged characters insted of a story about charcaters that are essentially still young (and full of vigor :D). I am just a shallow person, I confess.

On a strange note, the actor that plays Tyrion looks much yonger than his 40. I thought he is 20-somehting. Very odd.

[langoustes.livejournal.com]

I thought the actor that plays Tyrion was 27ish. He looks so young!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I thought the same!