GoT Writers About Coffee Cup: I Thought It Was A Joke | TV

entertainment">“I could not believe it. When we got an email about it the next day, I really thought someone was playing a joke on us ”, says Benioff in the book true The Hollywood reporter access. “I thought ‘there can never be a coffee cup in that shot. Then I saw it on TV and I thought: how could I not see that? ”

entertainment">According to Weiss they didn’t pay attention to the cup, but rather looked at the faces of the actors in the shot. “I just felt like a participant in a psychological experiment where you don’t see the gorillas running by in the background because you are counting the basketballs.”

entertainment">Modern technology has ensured that the shot is so widely reported online, according to Weiss. “Every production has ever had such things. In Braveheart you see a member of the crew, in Spartacus an actor wears a watch. But now people can rewind and everyone talks about it right away at that moment as well. Someone saw the coffee cup, rinsed it back and then everyone saw it. ”

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