‘Game of Thrones’ director accidentally lied to Obama about Jon Snow’s fate
LA TimesIn “Inside the Episode,” writers and directors reflect on the making of their Emmy-winning episodes. He helmed Season 3’s “The Rains of Castamere,” which is more commonly known as the Red Wedding because it featured the bloody end of beloved characters Robb Stark and his mother, Catelyn. He saw Kerry Ingram’s Shireen Baratheon, a child, burned at the stake in Season 5’s “The Dance of Dragons” and in Season 8, he had Missandei beheaded as she utters her final word: “dracarys”. David Nutter accepts the directing award for the “Mother’s Mercy” episode of “Game Of Thrones” at the Primetime Emmys in 2015. Although Jon seemed to be brought down in a Julius Caesar-like mutiny in Nutter’s Emmy-winning “Mother’s Mercy,” the HBO drama’s Season 5 finale, the next season’s premiere taught us that he was only mostly dead.