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For weeks, Game of Thrones fans been feverishly checking Twitter and Instagram, hoping for news that Kit Harington is indeed still in Belfast, therefore confirming that Jon Snow is coming back from the grave next season. However, it looks like a few more long lost familiar faces have been spotted on set.
***WARNING: HUGE POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR SEASON SIX OF GAME OF THRONES***
Vanity Fair reports that Rory McCann, the hulking Scottish actor who played the Hound, has been spotted in Belfast. McCann is staying in the same hotel that houses all the other Game of Thrones cast members when they’re in town. If The Hound is back, it would confirm our suspicions that he did not in fact perish at the end of season four. Of course, he could be visiting or showing up in one of the many rumored “flashbacks” next season.
The prevalent fan theory is that now that Bran is learning how to become a seer — with the help of Max Von Sydow’s Three-Eyed Raven — we’re going to be getting a lot of flashbacks to important scenes from the lives of now deceased characters like Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon, and Ned’s doomed sister, Lyanna Stark. That could give fans long-awaited answers to questions like, “WHO THE HELL IS JON SNOW’S MOTHER?” Recent reports that Castillo de Zafra will be standing in for the mythic Tower of Joy* seem to confirm this.
Rory McCann isn’t the only actor seemingly returning to Game of Thrones next year. Art Parkinson and Natalia Tena have been spotted in town. You’ll remember — or maybe you don’t — that Art played the littlest Stark, Rickon, and Tena was his sassy Wilding guardian. The two went off alone ages ago, so it seems we’ll finally what happened to Osha, Rickon, and Shaggydog.
Oh…and as for Kit Harington? He’s still in Belfast and he’s still has long hair.
For now, we’re just going to keep on believing that Jon’s coming back from the dead. You can laugh at us when he really is deader than dead. [Where to Stream Game of Thrones]
*For non-book readers, The Tower of Joy is where Daenerys’ oldest brother, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, kept Lyanna Stark under lock and key. Ned Stark slew Ser Arthur Dayne, the most celebrated knight in the Kingsguard, to save her life, but she was dying when he arrived. Speculation is she had died giving birth to her son by Rhaegar…Jon Snow. It’s rumored that Ned pretended Jon was his son to save him from the fate that befell Rhaegar’s other children. You know what happened to them, right? The Mountain murdered them and their mother on the Lannisters’ orders. Which is why…dun dun dun…The Martells hate the Lannisters because Rhaegar’s wife was Elia Martell. (Does any of this finally make sense?)
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