'The Bloody Hand' Is Staged in Bravoos in the Sixth Season of 'Game of Thrones'
Australian actress and Babadook star Essie Davis and Richard E. Grant have been cast as members of a drama troupe who will play the roles of Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon in a stage play in Bravoos and will be entertaining the crowds there.
The "Game of Thrones" fan & community site Watchers on the Wall first gave the exclusive news that actors Essie Davis and Richard E. Grant are members of a travelling stage troupe who come to Bravoos and stage a play called "The Bloody Hand," that captures all the main events of Westeros.
There have been a lot of fan-taken photos of Davis in Cersei robes and wig circulating on the net. Of course, she is not replacing the beautiful Lena Headey.
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In the sixth season of "Game of Thrones," Davis, a travelling troupe artiste has taken the part of "Leading Actress," in a play about the political elite of Westeros. Her role was described in the casting call as being "in her early 40s, she's an elegant actress with a traveling theatre company. Fun, charismatic, rum-drinking actress in the troupe."
The troupe of actors who will put up the show called "The Bloody Hand" are enacting a plot from a chapter of "A Song of Ice and Fire" novel that was released and will feature the events that have transpired at The King's Landing over the past few seasons.
It was announced that Richard E. Grant has also been cast and now, it is known that he will play the leader of the drama troupe and in the stage show, "The Bloody Hand." He will be playing Cersei's husband and King of Westeros, Robert Baratheon.
His character in the casting call was described as a "larger-than-life leader of a troupe of actors" who "specializes in portraying drunken aristocrats." The show couldn't have found a better actor for the role of Robert Baratheon.
Fans have also spotted Arya with Davis but it is still unclear what role Arya is playing in the stage play.
