![]() ![]() The show is filmed in exotic locations around the world, but in Ireland, where a good chunk of the HBO series is shot, the broadcasting decency laws set the age of consent at 16, not for the actor portraying a character, but for the character himself. Interestingly enough, these two characters' ages actually affect the Fire and Ice screen adaptation in ways you might not anticipate. Because like most marriages in the seven kingdoms, this one is entirely political. ![]() Doesn't Kings Landing have like, statutory rape laws or something? Apparently not. But the age difference between Margaery Tyrell and young Tommen is pretty massive. ![]() ![]() Enter Tommen, the teeny toe-headed little brother to take Joffrey's place as the man to help Margaery conceive children. In a beautifully prolonged exit, Joffrey was poisoned and died during his wedding ceremony feast, leaving King's Landing's new queen Margaery without a king. He might be younger, but thank the old gods and the new that Game of Thrones' Margaery Tyrell didn't have to bed Tommen Baratheon's older brother Joffrey while he was alive. ![]()
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