(Except for the gravity.) The sparse roads, though, don’t allow a film crew to drive right up to a location, so all of the gear had to be packed onto sleds - $5 plastic toboggans, Newman says proudly - and dragged onto the site. Past the mountain road, it’s not unlike driving on the surface of the moon. From Reykjavik, it’s another flight of about an hour into Akuyeri, a fishing and resort village at the mouth of a fjord on the north coast.įrom there, it’s a drive east, over the mountains toward Myvatn.
Iceland itself is a five-hour flight from the east coast of North America, and a little under three hours for the members of the Game of Thrones cast based in Europe, which is most of them. The expression “middle of nowhere” is overused, but it really applies in this case. The outdoor scenes were filmed here, next to Lake Myvatn. There’s an argument over Jon’s loyalty to the wildlings and, eventually, Ygritte distracts him from the argument by taking him to a cave and testing his vow of chastity in a very hands-on way. Viewers will recall the scenes in the third season of Game of Thrones in which Jon Snow and his new ladyfriend, Ygritte, roam north of The Wall with a band of wildlings. “Filming here is logistically challenging,” Newman says in what is a remarkable bit of British understatement.
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