Pretty much everyone in Spain trying to get on Game Of Thrones
With Spain facing a nearly 24-percent unemployment rate and forced to pay even for laughter, the nation may have found a temporary solution to its financial woes in Game Of Thrones. The HBO series is currently filming its fifth season there, with Spain standing in for the kingdom of Dorne, and Seville’s Alcazar palace serving as the home of House Martell. And while the Seville populace reacted positively toward being portrayed as lavish, lusty swashbucklers with slightly different clothes, that was nothing compared to the response to the call for extras in Osuna. According to Entertainment Weekly, a post seeking around 600 people received some 86,000 applications, crashing the local production company’s servers. For reference, that’s approximately four times the population of Osuna itself, and at least 1,000 more characters than are on Game Of Thrones right now.