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HBO apologizes for using decapitated G.W. Bush on ‘Game of Thrones’
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06/14/12 12:30 PM ET
Cable network HBO apologized Wednesday night for the use of a prosthetic head modeled after former President George W. Bush in a scene that depicts several heads on spikes by the hit show “Game of Thrones.” The network also promised the shot of Bush’s decapitated head will be removed from the episode on future DVDs.
“We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste,” the network said in a statement. “We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent, careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production.”
“The last head on the left is George Bush,” one of the show’s creators revealed on the commentary track for the 10th episode.
“George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes,” says the other.
“It’s not a choice, it’s not a political statement, it’s just we had to use whatever heads we had around.”
The show creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who can be heard laughing about their use of the head on the commentary track, issued a statement to several media outlets on Wednesday.
“What happened was this: we use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc,” they explained of the notably gruesome cable series. “We can't afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush. In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former president and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.”
The popular HBO show “Game of Thrones,” based on a fantasy series by George R. R. Martin, recently concluded its second season as one of the cable network’s most-watched shows.
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