Lysa Arryn

Book readers were taken aback when they first saw Kate Dickie playing the role of Lysa Arryn as the appearance was way off than what was in the books. According to what Martin writes, she should be puffy and overweight as a consequence of a succession of failed pregnancies and even miscarriages. To be fair to Katie, she nails the jealous and paranoid side of Lysa but no chance she justifies the term “overweight”. Also in the show, she lacks the blue eyes color which runs in the Tully family. Martin describes her as, ” Shorter than Catelyn, Lysa had grown thick of body, pale and puffy of face. She had the blue eyes of the Tullys, but hers were pale and watery, never still. Her small mouth had turned petulant.”