10 Things You Never Knew About Game Of Thrones' Carice Van Houten
5. She's Multilingual
What makes a sexy redhead even sexier? How about throwing a couple of foreign languages at her? Not only is this Netherlands native fluent in Dutch and English, but she speaks French, German and a little bit of Spanish too.
Oh yea, and George R. R. Martin's made up language, Valyrian.
When asked if it was tough to learn the language, Carice admitted that even though she's fluent in so many languages, none of them even resembled the Westerosi tongue.
It took me a really long time (to learn Valyrian)," she admitted. "I had to study. Then when I finally got it, I thought, 'Why can't I just talk only in Valyrian?' It gives you freedom in your speech and in your acting as well. I've had some moments where I tripped over some words. Fortunately there are no bloopers on the DVD—I'd be part of a lot of them."