“Not just because she recognised someone from TV, but as if she really thought I was scary. “The girl almost screamed,” she recalls with satisfaction.
When a woman came up once and asked her that, van Houten replied with the words, “The night is dark and full of terrors” – a key line from her terrifying fire priestess Melisandre. When Carice van Houten goes out in public, she often notices people giving her searching looks, as if they can’t quite place where they’ve seen her before.