Benevolent is a more difficult word to pronounce under pressure than you might think, especially if you have to say it in Tyrion Lannister’s strange accent. That’s the takeaway from the Game of Thrones blooper reel, which revolves around one blooper in particular: Dinklage’s near-complete inability to make it through the phrase “the benevolent enslavers of Yolantis.” The reel debuted at Friday’s Game of Thrones panel at San Diego’s Comic-Con.
Wading through baroque honorifics is as important to Game of Thrones actors as technobabble is on Star Trek: This is a show in which one character is known as “Cersei of the House Lannister, first of her name, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms.” (And that’s one of the easy ones—God help anyone who has to address Daenerys Targaryen.) As the story goes on, characters die off, and power consolidates, there are only going to be more titles for each person, so Dinklage had better spend his time off on tongue twisters. Check out the video to see how many different ways there are to mispronounce benevolent, plus Rory McCann failing to split wood, Emilia Clarke botching her Dothraki, and Kit Harington falling into freezing water.
