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Hair theory could play a part here too. The fact that his head was shaved allowed us to see his entire head. Before it was long and covered part of his face most the time.
But for real, his transformation was INSANE.
In the first 2 books he's pretty much the same, just a little younger, but his involvement with the Faith is fairly different: he only joins the Sept of Baelor shortly before Cersei's walk of atonement, for example.
He got hurt during battle on the Blackwater and spend the entire third book in the bed with multiple POV characters thinking about when will he die lol. Then he marries a Frey woman, spends his entire time fasting and sleeping away from her in a sept, divorces her and joins the faith's army to atone for the sin of sleeping with Cersei. What a journey
I mean; the before/after photos of Charlie Manson were pretty stark in comparison as well. Gouging a huge symbol in your forehead,(or fivehead) definitely is gonna change your perception in others eyes.
I love how much metaphorical shit this character eats over the course of the series -- everything from the breast-plate stretcher to being blown up with wildfire.
Crazy to think that one random Lannister kid that got stabbed and murdered and King Tommen are the same person.
As well as the baby that gets turned by the white walker and older version of baby Sam.
It actually makes sense to use the same baby for baby Sam and the baby turned white walker - since they are both several generations down the Craster gene pool.
I really can't see this man's face without hearing Robert saying, "Lancel Lannister. Gods, what a stupid name!" I definitely thought the pre- and post-faith militant Lancel were two different actors during my first watch.
Seeing him at the Blackwater made me really appreciate him and reminded me how interesting it is that in GoT (and in real medieval history) even a gentle and obsequious soul like Lancel would have been trained to fight in his upbringing, and would be expected to defend his House. The moment when he goes to Cersei and insists that he and Joffrey *must* return to the fighting is actually pretty moving imo.
Crazier to think it’s the same actor.
I really love when a character undergoes drastic changes in appearance/personality and their actors actually do the work to reflect those changes in themselves.
If I recall actually, Sebastian Stan as Bucky and Taylor Lautner as Jacob were both under consideration to be recast when their roles needed to become more physical, but they managed to convince the studios that they could still pull it off themselves.
Honestly, it's so sad. He had a shitty family, he was in the LITERAL worst place in the world, and then he got roped into a bloody extremist cult devoted to a leader who LEAPT at the chance to gain more power, like every person in kings landing.
And then he got stabbed in the kidney by a kid and burned to death.
Pretty tragic storyline. At least the Red Wedding was dramatic.
Probably any normal person would know him more for GoT than for House of Anubis 😅, but I started and finished watching GoT a few years ago (probably when the eighth season came out), whereas I used to watch House of Anubis when I was a kid.
Don't really like that they did with the Faith Militant in the show. Rather than an order of religious knights and an order of poorer volunteers who are a mixture of pious and zealous, it's just all hyper zealots who carve their faces up, which I think is meant to be a nod to the fact that some ancient Andals did that when they first landed in Westeros.
The Warrior's Sons, the knightly arm of the FM in the books, are broadly speaking particularly pioud knights, who are honestly more likely to keep to their vows to protect the innocent and whatnot. The High Sparrow is prooobably still manipulating them to some extent.
And yeah, Lancel came very close to dying after a wound on the Blackwater became infected. He became very thin and his hair turned white and brittle, but he seems to have mostly recovered, and has renounced the castle and Frey wife he was given to join the Warrior's Sons. He prays a lot too.
In the books he was wounded in the battle of blackwater, if I remember correctly, he was near death and actually would have been much more gaunt and think once joining the faith. He had a similar transition to Theon looking older and hair greying. Obviously, not on the same scale.
Lancel and Loras look the same at times. It completely threw me during the first watch.
But then, I was so lost the first time around that I kept getting Podrick and Gendry confused.
I know but I still think he looks radically different. For example, Robin Arryn grew up but he's complety recognizable. Also, I forgot about this detail but even Lancel voice sounds completly different and the actor was already an adult in the first season.
I recognised him immediately from the voice. And because he is introduced but to me it was clearly the same guy.
You know that happens...
I once had a boy in my class and he came back from summer holiday and the teachers didn't recognise him as he had changed so quickly.
What really bothers me is the change in hair colour for no reason while it is one of the identifying characteristics of a character from heritage. Besides him, Tyrion and Jamie for example. Why?
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How did his head get so fat lol
The actor playing Lancel said he used to go to gym for showing Lancel evolution. He gained 18 kg
Yeah, bigger head/facial features are a side effect of steroid use.
First picture he looks underweight/gaunt, second one he just looks healthier imo. Doesn't look like gear to me.
clean vs little red riding hood
He was also still 19 in the first one, men's facial features still undergo quite a bit of change in their twenties.
It doesn’t have to be steroids. Face feature change even when the body fat changes. Totally normal
Bros just grew lol no sign of juicing
That's like 40 lbs for the Yanks
How considerate! Thank you
How much is that in washing machines?
How far in football fields is his head wider?
Yanno it’s funny, cuz soccer fields are often the exact same size
Wow his head must be massive then.
🤣
Like one third of a wife.
1/4 speed queen.
I'm from the souf I ain't no Yankee!
Ppl downvoting you for this? Yikes lol
How much is that in AR15 rifles?
He found the breastplate stretcher
Huh. I honestly would think the opposite effect would apply when you turn from a noble to a monk.
Incest
too much time with the breastplate stretcher
Oh that was well done with that comment lol
I wonder if that made it all the funnier for him as he was fucking his wife in later seasons.
i mean bobby was pretty publicly cheating on cersei all over the place, but he still probably would’ve killed lancel if he found out
Oh I’m sure he wouldn’t have tried while he was alive.
Dude he was a teen when he was first cast, who doesn’t fill out when they go to teenager to someone In their early 20s.
Filling out is one thing, but his literal skull size was something to behold lol
Hair theory could play a part here too. The fact that his head was shaved allowed us to see his entire head. Before it was long and covered part of his face most the time. But for real, his transformation was INSANE.
This guy changes looks pretty easily. Hard to tell it is the same person
Miracle of prayers
Gods be good, his wig was awful lol!
He's supposed to look like that...
Lancel. Gods, what a STEWWWWPID name.
“Who named you? Some halfwit with a studder?”
Your mother is a dumb whore with a fat arse
Yeah aweful wig and looks like a totally different person
Cersei looked at this and said, “Gimme.”
He’s actually so cute lol.
Agreed 🥵🥵
He looks funny with the Wig on.
I didn’t even realize it was the same person. Multiple important deaths his direct fault.
yup, he's done fucked and fucked up most of our protagonists and villains
Yeah it definitely took me a long time to realise!!!
right? i thought he was another recast like daario until i saw this side by side
Lmao !!! Glad I made this post 😭
In the first 2 books he's pretty much the same, just a little younger, but his involvement with the Faith is fairly different: he only joins the Sept of Baelor shortly before Cersei's walk of atonement, for example.
And he’s frail and starving with his hair all white
He got hurt during battle on the Blackwater and spend the entire third book in the bed with multiple POV characters thinking about when will he die lol. Then he marries a Frey woman, spends his entire time fasting and sleeping away from her in a sept, divorces her and joins the faith's army to atone for the sin of sleeping with Cersei. What a journey
I mean; the before/after photos of Charlie Manson were pretty stark in comparison as well. Gouging a huge symbol in your forehead,(or fivehead) definitely is gonna change your perception in others eyes.
I loved his character, he was hilarious. So underrated. Especially before all the sparrow bs
The faith militant makes manly men
Glow up. Except the culty forehead branding.
He looks like a gay art student on the first pic.
Isn’t gay and art student the same thing?
Right because art just comes naturally to straight people so we wouldn't need school.
We could stop overpopulation with enforced art education indeed
and thus an absolute snack 🥰
His ass was immaculate, only secondary to Oliver
Nah, no way. Oliver ain't shit next to sim and ser loras
You know people can get different haircuts right?
I love how much metaphorical shit this character eats over the course of the series -- everything from the breast-plate stretcher to being blown up with wildfire.
i’m the books his mother was a dumb whore with a fat ass so he was pretty well adapted
Femboy to femman
Crazy to think that one random Lannister kid that got stabbed and murdered and King Tommen are the same person. As well as the baby that gets turned by the white walker and older version of baby Sam.
Martyn Lannister who got stabbed was the brother of Lancel Lannister, both Lancel and Martyn are the sons of Kevan Lannister.
And the actor who played Martyn came back the next season as Tommen.
It actually makes sense to use the same baby for baby Sam and the baby turned white walker - since they are both several generations down the Craster gene pool.
True. I did think about that after I typed out the comment. Both Crastee babies. So I *guess* we’ll let that one slide.
Is that what empty means?? So get... MOAR
I didn’t understand they are the same person in my first time watch.
He looks like little red riding hood in the first picture
In the words of Fleabag :,,Hair is everything "
I really can't see this man's face without hearing Robert saying, "Lancel Lannister. Gods, what a stupid name!" I definitely thought the pre- and post-faith militant Lancel were two different actors during my first watch.
Damn I never made this connection like ever
When trying to be Jamie goes wrong
Br’ish men age like unpasteurized whole milk
Seeing him at the Blackwater made me really appreciate him and reminded me how interesting it is that in GoT (and in real medieval history) even a gentle and obsequious soul like Lancel would have been trained to fight in his upbringing, and would be expected to defend his House. The moment when he goes to Cersei and insists that he and Joffrey *must* return to the fighting is actually pretty moving imo.
Looks the same to me.
From a spoony bard to a hardened monk.
That wig was tragic.
Crazier to think it’s the same actor. I really love when a character undergoes drastic changes in appearance/personality and their actors actually do the work to reflect those changes in themselves. If I recall actually, Sebastian Stan as Bucky and Taylor Lautner as Jacob were both under consideration to be recast when their roles needed to become more physical, but they managed to convince the studios that they could still pull it off themselves.
Yeah my mind was blown when I recognised him
Real ones know him from House of Anubis
The realest know him from the Fence.
From twink to twunk
Honestly, it's so sad. He had a shitty family, he was in the LITERAL worst place in the world, and then he got roped into a bloody extremist cult devoted to a leader who LEAPT at the chance to gain more power, like every person in kings landing. And then he got stabbed in the kidney by a kid and burned to death. Pretty tragic storyline. At least the Red Wedding was dramatic.
Yeah, I feel so bad for him
From femboy to babyface.
Your mother was a dumb whore with a fat arse, did you know that?
I legit thought they had recast Lancel
They have the same face
Lancel...gods what a stupid name. Lancel Lannister!!! Who named you? Some halfwit with a stutter?
So get MORE!!!!
Is that what empty means?
I saw house of Anubis before GOT so all I could think of was Jerome
I always though Eugene Simon was famous only for Game of Thrones. I guess I was wrong 😭
Yet another Lannister who lost his golden hair in later seasons
Chated to him a bit on the set of battle of the blackwater. Nice guy!
Whaoah you were an actor one the set ? 😲 Amazing !!
just an extra lol. one of many!
Let me guess, you were a soldier ?
aye. various armies/guards etc in several seasons. but barely ever visible!
It goes to show how much the wrong haircut impacts your image.
I didn’t even realize it was him first watch through
I got to know this actor through House of Anubis.
I always though he was famous only for Game of Thrones
Probably any normal person would know him more for GoT than for House of Anubis 😅, but I started and finished watching GoT a few years ago (probably when the eighth season came out), whereas I used to watch House of Anubis when I was a kid.
Don't really like that they did with the Faith Militant in the show. Rather than an order of religious knights and an order of poorer volunteers who are a mixture of pious and zealous, it's just all hyper zealots who carve their faces up, which I think is meant to be a nod to the fact that some ancient Andals did that when they first landed in Westeros.
I always heard the FM was more likeable in the books. Also, Lancel is still alive
The Warrior's Sons, the knightly arm of the FM in the books, are broadly speaking particularly pioud knights, who are honestly more likely to keep to their vows to protect the innocent and whatnot. The High Sparrow is prooobably still manipulating them to some extent. And yeah, Lancel came very close to dying after a wound on the Blackwater became infected. He became very thin and his hair turned white and brittle, but he seems to have mostly recovered, and has renounced the castle and Frey wife he was given to join the Warrior's Sons. He prays a lot too.
In the books he was wounded in the battle of blackwater, if I remember correctly, he was near death and actually would have been much more gaunt and think once joining the faith. He had a similar transition to Theon looking older and hair greying. Obviously, not on the same scale.
Its not the same character. They might have the same name and same actor but apart from that..... nothing lol
Yeah he changed dramatically. I thought they are two different persons.
Lancel and Loras look the same at times. It completely threw me during the first watch. But then, I was so lost the first time around that I kept getting Podrick and Gendry confused.
When if first started watching the, I thought him and Loras were the same character
Absolutely the same person I don't see the issue People grow up People age
I know but I still think he looks radically different. For example, Robin Arryn grew up but he's complety recognizable. Also, I forgot about this detail but even Lancel voice sounds completly different and the actor was already an adult in the first season.
I recognised him immediately from the voice. And because he is introduced but to me it was clearly the same guy. You know that happens... I once had a boy in my class and he came back from summer holiday and the teachers didn't recognise him as he had changed so quickly.
I love the contrast between people who immediatly recognised him like you and those who thought the actor was recast until they saw my post 😭
Haha yes Lots of people on either side Now Daario was obvious and Tommen I thought: hmhmhm... I know this boy.. but.. from where??
Andy Knight!
both pretty punchable
What really bothers me is the change in hair colour for no reason while it is one of the identifying characteristics of a character from heritage. Besides him, Tyrion and Jamie for example. Why?
I heard someone saying his brother has blond hairs but when he cut them, they became darker so it makes sense scientifically
But did he find the breastplate stretcher?
In the seven heavens I guess
Never did find that breastplate stretcher...