Game of Thrones Fourth Season Casting News Update: Producers Cast Indira Varma from HBO's Rome

“Game of Thrones” has cast the third actor from the HBO series, Rome, for their fourth season. Indira Varma, from HBO’s classic series about the fall of the republic of the Rome and the rise of the Roman Empire, “Rome,” will play in the fourth season of “Game of Thrones.”

The producers of “Game of Thrones” announced that they have cast another actor from “Rome.” Indira Varma will play in season 4. It looks like playing on an HBO series keeps you in gainful employment. Indira Varma, who played Niobe on “Rome” has been cast as Ellaria Sand on the fourth season of “Game of Thrones.” The producers of the series based on the George RR Martin book look to the earlier seires on HBO as a go-to casting couch. Last year, Ciarán Hinds who played Caesar on “Rome,” joined the cast of “Game of Thrones” as Mance Rayder. Tobias Menzies, who played Brutus, the man who “saved the Republic,” well the man who tried to save the republic, he was the last man to stab Julius Caesar, but he was out-classed at Caesar’s funeral by a rousing speech by Marc Antony, played by James Purefoy.

Indira Varma played Niobe on “Rome.” Niobe was the wife of Centurian-turned-Senator-turned-ancient Roman-mobster-turned Marc Antony confidante, Lucius Verenus. Niobe who got pregnant when she thought her husband was dead. Varma will play Ellaria Sand. Ellaria Sand is the lover of Prince Oberyn Martell who is also known as “The Red Viper,” who will be played by the newly cast Pedro Pascal. Sand is described as sexually adventurous.

Besides Rome, Indira Varma can be seen in the series “Human Target” on Fox and the UK series “Silk” and “Hunted.” Varma was in the Bollywood movie, “Bride and Prejudice” with Aishwarya Rai.

David Benioff, who is the showrunner at “Game of Thrones,” promised that season four will be the best so far. He said, “We got more action, which is obviously more time consuming. It’s a brutal shooting season ahead. But if we can make it through, yeah, I think it’s going to surpass season three. The last 3 episodes, there’s so many scenes we’ve been waiting for so long to do. And it just gets more and more fun to write for these characters. After three years of doing it, we have that much more comfort to make everything uncomfortable for them. We’re very excited for it.”