Amanda Peet Defends ‘Game Of Thrones,’ Thinks Season 5 Backlash is ‘Really Misplaced’ [Video]

Amanda Peet recently defended the television show Game of Thrones in an interview with the Wrap. Game of Thrones has been the subject of considerable backlash regarding the treatment of women, and Peet stepped in to explain why she thinks the accusations of misogyny are misplaced. Season 5 includes a rape scene and a death scene, and some fans strongly disagree with Peet. Amanda is an actress and the wife of Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff, and she has the inside goods about the show.

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In an interview with the Wrap, Peet argues that in a world where women are striving to achieve high goals, “It’s much more insidious to have middling, ancillary female roles where the women are not part of the plot — where they don’t advance anything. Wife roles, girlfriend roles, there are very few of those in Game of Thrones. If someone takes their clothes off and it’s a massive part of the plot? So be it.”

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Amanda Peet originally thought the show was a stupid idea.

In an interview with Conan O’Brien, she said, “I thought it was a terrible idea… terrible. It’s just silly. It’s Dungeons and Dragons but real with real people.”

However, Amanda turned a corner and is now reportedly in love with the television show despite originally believing it was a stupid idea.

“I think it’s really misplaced,” Amanda Peet told the Wrap about the backlash. “They write some of the greatest female characters that are on television. It’s a misogynist world, this world that George R. R. Martin created, but we have to experience it without thinking that people are condoning this.”

Although she is married to the show’s co-creator, that doesn’t mean Amanda agrees with every decision Game of Thrones co-creator Benioff takes.

“I was furious [to learn about a death of a character]. [David] was already in Belfast, he’s back to work now on the next season, but I texted him and said, ‘I’m single now,'” Peet joked in the interview.

Author George R.R. Martin, echoing Amanda Peet’s opinion, also defended Game of Thrones, reports the Huffington Post. The writer said that his book uses history as a basis for the plots and tends to reflect the patriarchal society of the Middle Ages. Martin told magazine Entertainment Weekly in an interview that it would have been “fundamentally dishonest” for him to exclude scenes of rape.

“Rape, unfortunately, is still a part of war today,” Martin said.

The show’s star, Gwendoline Christine, like Amanda Peet, also defended some of Game of Throne’s shocking plot twists.

She told Entertainment Weekly, “What this show is doing is shining a light on women and has an exploration of female characters that has rarely been approached before — and I applaud that. Yes, those scenes are difficult, and they should be difficult. They should further illuminate human consciousness about how we interact as human beings.”

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