‪Game of Thrones 'Melisandre' Carice Van Houten‬ Interview

[@Fishyness18]

I love how mysterious her character is. You can't tell if she is young or old, just kind of timeless.

[@Mors_Umber]

Felicia Quintana Well, now you can actually.

[@HollywoodLife]

Carice came alone, with no handlers, like she was out for a walk and just happened to stop by. She was so cool!

[@zinki120]

Oh gosh...Carice is so adorable.

[@xxFireMagexx]

Her eyes!

[@islamaphobe]

Hottest woman in the whole series!

[@kyradelemarre4691]

+Frostbyte380 Is that in or excluded Emilia Clarke?

[@islamaphobe]

I don't find Clarke attractive whatsoever.

[@Erik_Ahl]

Do you still have that opinion after season 6 ;)

[@vaasgg6193]

damn you are right

[@rubenhof286]

Grappig dat ze ook gewoon poes minoes heeft gespeeld

[@jacerlab]

Ja echt he :D

[@anilnuruyt]

She is 38 fucking years old and still a Freaking Godess. Damn!

[@MrLolcat1987]

I can't tell you how grateful I am for that:). I've traveled a lot, and the Netherlands is the only non-english speaking country I've been to where I could watch things other than news on TV. You guys are great.

[@MrLolcat1987]

During my time in the Netherlands, I had to deal with a landlord who didn't speak a slick of English. Every time I met with him, his son would be present to translate what I said to his father. He understood me well enough that I didn't have to talk slowly or repeat myself much but he could hardly form a complete sentence in English. A lot of ppl in NL at least understand english when spoken to, that's already remarkable compared to the rest of Europe.

[@muffinkatP]

Yea I think you're right, in the show her accent isn't Dutch nor is it like the other members of the cast who are mostly native English speakers, it has a very exotic sound to it and that really contributes to the role she plays.

[@kyrawissing9197]

Her dutch accent, ik hou dr van! 😍

[@KiwiGirlnCo]

she is a great actor as is the majority of game of thrones cast.

[@kyradelemarre4691]

Holland's happy to have you toooooo!

[@judithmeisje]

Proud to be dutch :)

[@misterivo4141]

ik ook ;-) by the way : Carice is niet alleen mooi ze heeft ook nog eens prachtige ogen ! haar humor , stem en speelt ook nog eens in goede films en series!

[@xfelineLee]

Judy-J yes! Ik ook

[@ESMEEEETJ]

she's an amazing actor i really lovee her Je bent te gek als Melisandre carice ! Super dat een nederlandse actrice zoo ver komt

[@IronllamaZero]

You know who Melisandre reminds me of? ...Grigori Rasptutin. A strange, mysterious religious figure who is alleged to have mystic powers at his/her disposal and high influence with a Tsar/King. Plus, they both get around quite a bit, if you catch my drift! :)

[@Hockey_00002]

2:01 lol

[@matthewhitchings7141]

YAY! She uses her normal accent when she acts! Familiarity!

[@widg3tswidgets416]

Good GOD SHES GORGEOUS!!! Game of thrones does her no justice! She's a goddess IRL!

[@SavagePersonified90]

She plays Melisandre perfectly.

[@moonsmilelucide]

true, the reason for this is that we don't use audio dub on english/american spoken movies or series. Instead we put the dutch subtitles under it, so we hear the english and see the translation. That way we create a subconscious understanding of hearing english words and the translation. Most other european countries have Audio dub so they simple don't hear any english.

[@KarrieDreammind5]

As a non-Dutch, living in Holland I have to agree with you. I've been trying to train myself in speaking in some sort of British-like accent, but hearing people around me speak with a Dutch or any other accent, doesn't help at all. At the end of the day your own natural born accent tends to always surface back up when you're not alert and haunts you.

[@ThomasEricShaw]

Yeah i'm from the netherlands, she's a great actress

[@sappyxsorb]

RIGHT! She was Minoes, I'd completely forgotten. Great that's she's getting a lot of international work as well lately.

[@OwnDifictions]

Damn, her accent still is Dutch. The moment I learned Melisandre was played by Carice van Houten I was impressed, but it seems she still is Dutch after all :)

[@KarrieDreammind5]

Ahh that is very interesting! I didn't know English is actually originally also from the same Germanic language family. But since it was heavily influenced by French, that's why today is sounds the way it sounds. So in the end, still, the English sounding is a mix between French and Germanic. I've always considered Frisian as 'that' dialect of Dutch that wants to declare itself a separate language. And it's closest to English than any other Germanic language. Thank you for this information.

[@edgeferox51]

That accent.

[@mastermill79]

Troy, Ronin and the Sharpe mini series are examples of Sean Bean not kicking the bucket before the credits role over the screen :)

[@daanwolthuis]

No she was just being Dutch. We are pretty down to earth and have a saying that goes: "doe maar normaal dan doe je al gek genoeg", which translates to : "just act normal and you'll act crazy enough"

[@AssortedBits]

Actually, English and Dutch are of the same language family (West-Germanic, together with German, Frisian, Yiddish, Low-German and Afrikaans), but English has been the most diluted due to that invasion and subsequent occupation by French vikings. Frisian and English are especially close, for example: in German and Dutch the ch/tsj-sound transitioned into a k, but it didn't happen in English and Frisian. Hence church in English, tsjerk in Frisian, Kirche in German and kerk in Dutch.

[@KarrieDreammind5]

It is remarkable indeed. I think it's also got to do with the languages being not entirely different from each other. They are not from the same language family, like Dutch and - for example - German, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are... but English is a mixed language originating from different language families. And many modern languages nowadays are heavily influenced by English as well. Dutch is one of them. It's another theory.

[@asArsenic]

At the risk of sounding arrogant it's a Dutch thing. We have a saying "Doe nou effe normaal" which roughly translates to "Just be normal". We have this mindset of "Sure, I may be world famous but I'm still just a normal person who does normal person things". It's not humility, we can be mighty proud of ourselves, but it's a sort of level-headedness when it comes to social standing. In the dutch mindset being famous doesn't make you any more special than anyone else. At least most of the time.

[@marpeja]

The Queen of charisma.

[@neohubris]

She played the exact same role as Langiva in the Black Death with Sean Bean

[@KarrieDreammind5]

Hm.. ok, I guess you're right. Back in my country a lot of films and series are dubbed. Not all though. And here only children's stuff is dubbed. So I guess you're right, never really thought that would have such a big effect.

[@j0nk0s]

the reason why dutchies are getting better with english every generation is because we also grew up with cartoon network in english and stuff like that! it's almost considered weird for a dutch person to not speak english.

[@flixot]

The Dutch langauge has some sounds that are hard to produce for foreign people that want to learn Dutch. I think that's the sound you hear when dutch people talk english. i can hear it everytime

[@danielebravetti230]

funny (scary?) how dutch people are blaming her accent. i'm italian and i sure can hear she's got a different accent from GOT, like she's not even trying or she doesn't care, but still this is a fairly good one compared to other european accents, which tend to be much thicker than hers. i mean, if she was italian, she would be considered an excellent english speaker with a very nice pronounciation. but i guess everybody in Netherlands grew up learning english so you all guys can speak better than her, and you can definitely spot a bad Dutch accent, which is impressive to me :)

[@musicforeveryear]

she speak good duch and english

[@GiuliaGK]

I think they also wanted her to keep her accent as her character is supposed to come from far away right?

[@danielebravetti230]

Yep, that's for sure. They actually asked her to keep her dutch accent to make it fit with the exotic root of the character, but she decided to mix it up with american, irish, british. That's why she definitely sounds different in the interviews.

[@musicforeveryear]

I speak to duch but my as I englisch speaking is just too not perfect

[@kyradelemarre4691]

+Daniele Bravetti Dutch people speak English very well overall. Danish people do too. But I can assure you that in France, Spain or Italy for example, almost no one speaks English. The generation between 12 and 18 a little, but they're still not very good at it. i'm sure it'll change over the years though.

[@gurthang112]

Hob: "Because she was beautiful...AND REAL" Wulfstan: "No...THIS is real" *fastens torture restraints*

[@KarrieDreammind5]

I can assure you that Cartoon Network wasn't only shown in Holland. But I'm pretty sure the real reason why Dutch people nowadays speak English so well is because of the big amount of foreigners in the country.

[@Perriax]

Exactly, I do even think that might have been her audition tape or reel :P.

[@Iamaguienapig]

She’s so sweet.

[@DhDeadMan]

I fucking love you carice, Melisandre is by far my favorite caracter on the show, she´s so much more interesting then the books melisandre. (sorry for grammar)

[@netsoojnomar]

In the series it is intentional. Mellisandre is from a land far away, so she is not speaking her own tongue and having an accent fits that caracter

[@aarongao8668]

My best guess would be Melisandre, in the next season, resurrects Jon Snow to be an evil version of him. By the way, love how perfect she is in the GoT.

[@Lishaaaaaaa]

I love her accent.

[@KarrieDreammind5]

Mine is good because I moved to the Netherlands and also attended an International high school. :) I can't really pinpoint the difference in our countries and why young people seem to be less willing to speak English here in Bulgaria (still think it has to do with the fact that tourism only started to blossom in the last decade or so). But then again, I've met enough young Dutch people who hardly speak any English either. So we're even. :P

[@San47di]

I just purchased that DVD yesterday primarily because I saw Sean Bean was in it. Hope it's a good movie? :-)

[@ajaxrules1975]

Melisandre from Asshai, Red Priestess of R'hllor and Shadowbinder.

[@W4CKYB4CKY]

And damn the girl can sing!

[@Mimmers483]

It's weird to watch her in game of thrones if you watched her dutch movies like minoes, komt een vrouw bij de dokter and de gelukkige huisvrouw she is an amazing actrice!

[@parisvuitton4]

I'm proud the be Dutch, just like herr

[@brucekentallen]

those blue eyes omg

[@SuperSpasticNinja]

I stand corrected, what I meant to say was: "Sean Bean dies in 98.5% of everything".

[@KarrieDreammind5]

Ok ok, so foreigners have nothing to do with it. Perhaps. I'm just saying in my country I grew up with Cartoon Network as well (though sometimes it was in French for some reason) and we also learned English in primary school (from 6 years old onwards). Me and my cousin actually had English classes in the kindergarten as well because our parents wanted it for us. And then in the 90s and early 2000s there was the Internet. Yet, when I came to NL more people spoke English than I was used to.

[@Aapje150]

Hahah same here! Old memory's!

[@ramblingrye]

Exactly! I thought the very same thing. I mean how can she "forget" about Black Death?

[@pepsicolapowerblaster1846]

I don't get why some people complain on her accent in the show, it's pretty subtle actually, and even if it was'nt, she's still playing a foreigner so it would only be natural. But why she gotta' talk like she be ghetto, man?

[@LayllasLocker]

Heart drops while something else rises. x]

[@Jotuze85]

exaactly !

[@holloh9]

That has fuck all to do with it. Reason for us to speak english so well is because of TV shows like Scrubs or Family guy just being english with subs and games like Zelda or pokemon being full english. And the internet sort of forces us to learn english :P

[@SuperSpasticNinja]

Fair enough. I see your English is good. At the end of the day, that's all that really matters with this subject. Peace.

[@johnsimms6048]

She played a witch in Black Death and killed Sean Bean which must put her in a club "Bean Killers"

[@EvilStark1]

Carice makes the Netherlands 200% cooler

[@callofdutyfan1232]

Also I think I saw Robert Boratheon as a side character, when some peasants were going to kill a witch girl, but Sean Bean killed her himself.

[@in10sken]

shes pretty fucking cool, man.

[@AssortedBits]

To older generations English wasn't that important, hence they didn't get it at school (I think German and French were the foreign languages they learnt). But everyone who has been educated in the 80's 'til now got at least some English in school. Dutch and English are required languages in the curriculum of secondary education, other languages are optional (German and French being the most common ones.)

[@mastermill79]

Hell yeah!

[@TommyMagnus]

I like her accent

[@melisandrethered8760]

For the night is dark and full of terrors!!

[@sappyxsorb]

Yup. Once saw Tygo Gernand in Amsterdam, just smoking and leaning against the wall. Everybody pretty much just went on with their business and left him alone.

[@thevillageyid]

Lots of sexy ladies on GoT, but she's my favorite. Every time I see Melisandre my heart fucking drops.

[@TheGoodStuff2010]

What's your primary language. Americans may not be understandable because of accent. As an American, I can understand each and every actor, but as an American when I was in England, I couldn't understand every accent and we spoke the same language.

[@xDrikenx]

this woman can get any guy she wants damn it...like for real. Any guy.

[@SCharlesDennicon]

Carice when she doesn't have lines to read : "there will be some, err, nasty stuff" :D Just kidding, love that actress.

[@zinki120]

and also, "huge thing, man."

[@corbeau-_-]

that's dutch translated to english, it doesn't always fit, but most of the times it does.

[@raulbuster3152]

hell yeah...!! and if sean bean would have survived until season 3 she would have sacrificed him to the lord of light...old poor sean...he truly knows how to die....

[@Raynor9X9]

He didn't die in Troy, or Ronin

[@ShadowSonic2]

Well, she's actually younger than the woman who plays Cersei.

[@mikelong1984]

Love her in black book

[@TheLarhf]

No, not necessarily. People whom start learning English at a later age will be stuck with a Dutch accent, those whom choose to learn it before they reach the age of 10~ can learn it without having an obvious accent or in rare cases no accent whatsoever. So, no, accents do not necessarily always linger but rather they do most of the time.

[@Kagarin05]

why is her cheek green ._.

[@SuperSpasticNinja]

You're crazy. Foreigners...lmao. Forget Cartoon Network, before that was even here, like in the late 80's, 90's there were shows like G.I. Joe, Transformers, Ninja Turtles all with subtitles. Had they been dubbed I doubt I would have gotten a grasp on the English language to the extent that I have. We also learn it in elementary school, but tv-shows were where the real learning was at.

[@Gus7av0Santos]

I really like her .. and she's pretty too

[@LayllasLocker]

Hear me ROAR! :P

[@gurthang112]

Heh, "I've never played a character like that", except when she played an evil manipulative witch who's almost exactly like Melisandre in Black Death. Ironically, that movie also had Sean Bean in it and he died lmao.

[@mikeauditore881]

The Netherlands FTW!

[@MaschaClaessens]

Ahhh, near all Dutch people have an accent like this. I think it's less annoying than most other European-English accents ;-) And of course, in the series she's had lots of practice on how to pronounce her lines, but when you're in an interview, you can't practice what you're gonna say ;-) I think - in general - Dutch people are good enough at speaking English (probably because all English spoken movies and tv series are subtitled here), but well; a bit of a Dutch accent does always remain.

[@Hester807]

ayeee dutch proud :)

[@bbolster69]

Dutchies!!

[@eev14]

I'm dutch and my eyes are just as blue.. it's a pretty common thing here! ;)

[@SuperSpasticNinja]

Sean Bean dies in everything, that's a rule of nature, not irony.

[@PaulalaGirl]

She makes Holland seem so much cooler ;)

[@YurimoHikashi]

Caprice is my niece!

[@tafadzwangara5672]

wat a nice woman,, with a little dash of humour as well

[@Wubba83]

Bean is a boss! that dies alot but still hes a boss

[@shooshooshooshooshooter]

Nice :-)

[@adrianbosley]

de Passievrucht: "jij bent geil he!"

[@johnsonanum]

Vera Farmiga part 2

[@VikentiosHD]

hahaha a little wierd to hear that from the native american assassin xD HOLLAND!!!! =D

[@LayllasLocker]

What if that is not me? :D