The Game of Thrones series has been known to never shy away from nudity, and the franchise's latest project, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, continues this tradition.
In the second episode, audiences are hit with an appearance of a surprisingly large penis on one of its characters, the late Ser Arlan Pennytree, played by Danny Webb, who is dead before the show begins. Whenever there's a new full-frontal scene, the question usually becomes: Is that real?
In a flashback scene, Ser Arlan steps out of a brothel to pee, completely nude and letting it all hang loose. After the new episode aired Sunday, a prosthetic designer named Waldo Mason uploaded an Instagram post stating that the undercarriage Ser Alan was packing was indeed fake.
"Very proud to have forged Ser Arlan Pennytree’s formidable weapon for the opening moments of this episode," his lengthy caption reads. "We were asked to create a 10” prosthetic penis for the fantastic Danny Webb to wear, naked. Luckily, he was a consummate professional and was happy to work with us to make it as realistic as possible, coming in for fittings that culminated in a very intimate application process in a white tent in the Belfast countryside."
He then explains that the girthy prosthetic had some weight and needed to be reinforced around the edges with wig lace for "minimal stretch" and how there was a tube for him to be able to urinate."
One of Knight's showrunners and co-creator (alongside George R. R. Martin), Ira Parker, spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the episode and (likely jokingly) couldn't remember whether the "weapon" was real.
"I thought he just showed up on set that way, but maybe it was prosthetic," he said during the interview, adding that he wanted to give Ser Arlan some more airtime because he "felt bad" for the character. On the show, Ser Arlan is known as a hedge knight, a class of warrior looked down upon by more noble sword wielders. His humble life is seen in flashbacks from the protagonist, Ser Duncan the Tall (a.k.a. "Dunk," played by Peter Claffey), a former squire who has taken up his late master's mantle.
"He was the only person who's ever looked out for Dunk and really stuck with Dunk," Parker said. "And he died on a muddy road in the middle of nowhere, was buried without ceremony, and now Dunk is going around trying to find somebody who just even remembers him — people that he served for, people that he bled for, these knights and these lords."
He added, "They can't even remember his name. I felt the need to give him his one special thing, to channel a little Boogie Nights, I suppose."
New episodes of A Knight of Seven Kingdoms drop Sundays on HBO Max.
