What The 'game Of Thrones' Cast Looks Like Without The Makeup

The Night King is dead. Long live the Nighttime King.

At present that the ancient big bad from "Game of Thrones" is a pile of ice cubes in the Godswood behind Winterfell, fans are flocking to the Instagram account of Vladimir Furdik, the actor who scared Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and visitor stiff without ever uttering a single line.

Some may have visited Furdik's folio to see what the Night Rex looks similar all thawed out.

Furdik, who joined "Thrones" as a stunt supervisor, played a White Walker in Flavor 5'south "Hardhome" – merely not the Night King, who was played by Richard Brake in that boxing. Instead, he played the White Walker slain by Jon Snow and his Valryian steel sword, Longclaw. (That appeared to be Jon's first inkling that the rare metal was White Walker kryptonite.)

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Since making his debut equally the Night Rex in Season 6'south "The Door," Furdik has connected to play other stunt-heavy roles on the show.

Furdik literally made his mark in his first appearance as the Night King in Season 6's "The Door," in which he put a medieval GPS tracker on Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright).

Those parts include playing one of the knights guarding the Tower of Joy, where Lyanna Stark gave birth to Jon Snow in a Bran time-travel scene from the Season half dozen finale, "The Winds of Winter." (That's him on the right in the snapshot below.)

Furdik, 48, told Vulture that information technology takes 6 ½ hours in the makeup chair to attain Night Kingdom and by the fourth dimension that's done, he is already in character.

"When somebody puts a costume similar this, and makeup, you completely alter to be the grapheme," he explained. "You lot don't need to be thinking. Hair and makeup change you into this creature. And then you have a director who tells y'all what to do, and you lot merely follow his direction."

But the hardest part of the role? Remembering not to blink: "Information technology's non easy. But if you put in your mind that data, 'Don't blink,' I don't blink. It's training."

Hardcore "Thrones" fans volition recall that we have seen the Night King back in his human days, exactly one time.

During a time-travel adventure with the previous Iii-Eyed Raven in Season 6, Episode 5 ("The Door," aka the one where Hodor dies), Bran learned the Night Male monarch had been ane of the Outset Men (the earliest humans in Westeros), more than 12,000 years before the events of the show. The ethnic Children of the Woods, angry that a bunch of foreigner invaders were chopping down their sacred trees, kidnapped him and stabbed him in the heart with dragon glass, turning him into the very first White Walker.

So how did Furdik experience about the Night Rex'southward downfall?

On i hand, he'due south relieved he tin can finally talk well-nigh information technology, after keeping the Nighttime King's expiry a clandestine from even his family. On the other, he'southward going to miss playing the blue baddie.

"When I saw how (Arya) killed him (by stabbing him in the torso again, this time with a Valryian steel dagger), I had many dissimilar feelings inside," Furdik told Vulture. "Me equally myself, I said, 'No, no, why! Don't kill him!' I'd similar to end her. 'Don't, don't kill him! He's not so bad.' "

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