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[Anwar]

They tried to give Emilia Clarke and Harry Lloyd the purple eyes, but they didn't look very good on film and caused them too much irritation/pain so they dropped it.

Martin himself said that he shouldn't have bothered giving every character specific eye colors.

[7V3N]

WenchofTarth, on 05 February 2012 - 02:06 AM, said:

No worries, soon your complaints about the actor playing Renly will become moot.

Only to be replaced by all of my other nitpicky complaints

[Ser Dermett Corbray]

In the show, Robert is a mountain of a man but looks well past his prime with his glory days behind him. Renly looks young yet unremarkable, ambitious and with all his battles ahead of him.

Pretty much correlates with the story.

[7V3N]

They appear to have darkened Renly's hair

Edited by The Shadow Fox, 10 February 2012 - 01:16 PM.

[Nagisa Furukawa]

I think Renly looks a lot better this season, and will do a much better job with the charismatic, confident Renly people come to love in the books.

[Hear Us Roar]

the beard was a good call as was the hair

[K1NGSLAYER]

I think Renly looks great this season, although I thought he looked great last season as well.

[CrypticWeirwood]

Anwar, on 05 February 2012 - 01:50 PM, said:

They tried to give Emilia Clarke and Harry Lloyd the purple eyes, but they didn't look very good on film and caused them too much irritation/pain so they dropped it.

Martin himself said that he shouldn't have bothered giving every character specific eye colors.

I don’t understand why they didn’t just digitally swap them out for the bookishly correct colors during post-production.  This is quite easy to do.

[Padraig]

CrypticWeirwood, on 15 February 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

I don’t understand why they didn’t just digitally swap them out for the bookishly correct colors during post-production.  This is quite easy to do.

Is it though?  And if it is easy, is it cheap?  To have to change eye colour everytime a character is on screen sounds rather messy.  And even on this board, i'm not sure would a majority of people really care.

Purple eyes might just look silly also.

[WenchofTarth]

Meh, her eyes don't matter to me.  Hair color now...