Ну это вы загнули сильно...
Во-первых, легенду Талисы для фильма, узнав насколько изменён персонаж Джейн (изначально там была Джейн), выписал сам Мартин. Включая имя и происхождение. А в книге Мэйгир - один из самых знатных и влиятельных домов Волантиса, Мэйгир - один из триархов.
Да-а? Неужели?
George R.R. Martin himself explained the change from "Jeyne Westerling" to "Talisa Maegyr" during a panel at Worldcon 2012 with Maureen Ryan, during which even the other panelists weren't certain if "Talisa" was or was not Jeyne. Martin confirmed that Talisa is the TV series' "replacement" for Jeyne...that is, confirming that "Talisa" isn't an assumed name that "Jeyne" is operating under to avoid suspicion, etc.
Moreover, Martin pointed out that the road to making Jeyne into Talisa was a
two-step process. Benioff and Weiss have frequently waved away the drastic changes to Robb Stark's storyline in Season 2, by saying that his storyline occurred "off screen" in the books, so they were just putting it on-screen to give Robb more to do. Martin specifically points out that he fully agreed with that first choice..
.but that it was and entirely separate, second choice to make Jeyne a healer from Volantis, and changing the circumstances in which she marries Robb. Thus the token explanation that "we had to show what Robb was doing off-screen" in the books doesn't hold up, because as Martin himself pointed out, this isn't what Robb's storyline "off screen" in the books was like:
GRRM: [Sometimes, as with Shae, it's as if the book and TV versions of a person are two separate characters]..."Literally, in the case of Jane Westerling/Talisa, it is a completely different character. So that's not even, you know, 'two different versions of the same character', it's a DIFFERENT character, and a different storyline there...but also that's not a...well, I don't know I shouldn't say more about that."
Question: "So you can't tell me whether she is Jeyne Westerling? I'm still confused about that."
GRRM: "Well she's the character, she...she's not Jeyne Westerling."
Question: "She's still in that 'role'? My guess is that the producers decided that it wasn't satisfying to have Robb stake so much on a relationship that was entirely 'off stage' in the books. That they wanted to put that on-screen."
GRRM: "Well there are a number of decisions there. I mean yes. The FIRST decision was, we want to SEE Robb: we have a great young actor playing him in Richard Madden, he's very popular. You know, in A Clash of Kings, Robb is almost entirely 'off-stage': there's some scenes in the beginning of the book, and then he goes galloping off, and every so often a raven comes in and tells us what Robb is up to. And then, of course, in A Storm of Swords, Robb shows up and says 'Hi ma, I'm married.' So they wanted to show that. And of course, in the books, we learn what is the history, what happened to him, but we learn about it after the fact, and third-hand, and through letters, and ravens, and so forth. They wanted to actually show that decision. So, I think that was a good choice--"
GRRM: "--BUT then there was a SECOND decision, which is WHAT they showed. I mean they could have showed the events as they happened in the book. But, for whatever reason, they came up with a different thread, and changed the character of Jeyne Westerling significantly. It was actually my suggestion that they change her name, because once
they gave her the backstory where she was not the daughter of a Lannister bannerman, but actually was this sort of healer, nurse, battlefield nurse/healer from Volantis, I said, "well, 'Jeyne' is not a Volantene name, so if you're gonna, you know, if we're gonna have a different character, we should have a different name for her as well. Otherwise, people are gonna get really confused here."
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Во-вторых, "дочь вождя Готтентотов". Это совсем не так. В книге наоборот, для волантийцев вестеросцы - почти варвары. Волантис далёк от тех мест, где воюет Робб, но не от Вестероса в целом. Юго-восточные королевства - Дорн и Штормлэнд, да и сама Королевская гавань - имеют очень оживлённые связи с этим городом, хотя правильнее будет сказать, страной: владения Волантиса не уступают среднему вестеросскому королевству, а города больше весстеросских...
Готтентоты имелись ввиду как нечто крайне далекое для средневекового человека, а не "лол варвары". Хотите - можете заменить на представительницу ведущих родов Хазарского каганата и, например, короля Франции.
Вы не верите в актёрские способности Софи?
В такие - не верю. Она даже не Кира Найтли, притом и та смотрелась с пиратами вполне нелепо. А уж Софи Тернер, да с сериальной версией железнорожденных...