Dutch actress Carice van Houten, best known for her role as Melisandre in the series Game of Thrones, was arrested on Saturday during a climate action organized by Extinction Rebellion in the Netherlands, according to local media. The 46-year-old actress was part of a group of activists blocking the Utrechtsebaan section of the A12 motorway in central The Hague to protest against Dutch fossil fuel subsidies.
Police, who used water cannons to disperse the activists, announced on Twitter during the afternoon that they had made arrests. Carice van Houten, who had previously indicated her presence at the scene on her Instagram account, “was taken away” in one of the chartered buses to evacuate the arrested individuals, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
In a video she posted on the social network, we see the actress, who plays the character of Melisandre in Game of Thrones, dressed in a red poncho, getting wet from the water cannons.
It was the seventh action organized in recent months by the Extinction Rebellion movement on this section in The Hague. Several Dutch celebrities participated in these actions.
