![]() ![]() He’s just wonderfully eccentric and became a very, very good friend. I think he looks like an Arctic explorer in this. Kristofer has one of the most amazing faces ever. We were just young actors happy to be working-literally a world-at-your-feet sort of thing but no expectations from it. It’s just remarkable looking at it now and thinking we had no idea what was going to happen with the show. We were almost like kids ourselves, going on this big wheel and obviously having this souvenir photo taken. It was that time when every city had to have a huge Ferris wheel. I remember feeling like an adult then, but looking back, I was just a kid.īRUCE HANDY: The picture looks like a souvenir.Īlfie, Richard, and I went to the Wheel of Belfast. I remember Isaac looked like a puppy-he was just so small-and they came running up and they were very excited. We’d met Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, and Isaac Hempstead-Wright that day, and they were just these tiny, tiny little kids. ![]() We left the table read, where we’d just read with Sean Bean. This was a huge job for us: a pilot for HBO. What’s happened here is that Richard, Alfie, and I all met for the first time at that table read. That was a complete disaster that meant the show nearly never got made. KIT HARINGTON: This picture was taken just after the very first table read of the pilot for Game of Thrones-the pilot that no one saw. (Arrow in the back, season 4, episode 9.) He was lucky: Not only has his character not (yet?) been killed off, but he met his wife of less than a year on the show, Rose Leslie, the Scottish actress who played a love interest of Jon Snow’s, Ygritte, a “wildling” who was, alas, killed off. He has devoted much of the past decade to the show, growing into the role as he grew into adulthood-and as the show itself grew from cult hit to global phenomenon. But filming the Game of Thrones pilot in 2009, when he was twenty-one, was the first time Harington had acted in front of a professional camera. He started from a good place, born into an English family with posh lineage and graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. The actor, too, has had pop-cultural destiny thrust upon him. You could imagine him moonlighting in a Brontë adaptation, or selling fancy cars in arty commercials, as Harington has done (for Infiniti). Moreover-and unlike Frodo and Harry-Jon Snow is handsome in a grand, Byronic manner, windswept and untamed. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīut maybe more equal than most is Kit Harington’s Jon Snow, the closest thing the show has to a conventional hero: bighearted, steadfast, seemingly humble-born but with world-saving destiny slowly thrust upon him. ![]() A more visceral statistic: The show, in its search for muck-and-mire medieval authenticity, has used enough prop mud to float the Titanic. Shot on locations and in studios across three continents and ten countries, the series is one of the most expansive physical productions ever mounted, with a budget that Variety claims has grown to $15 million per episode, a fiscal height rarely scaled by TV (and roughly 50 percent more than the budgets for only-just-lavish-enough competitors Westworld and The Crown). The number of credited cast members reached 635 through season 7, by IMDb’s reckoning-and that’s not including hundreds, if not thousands, of extras. If this were a movie to be watched in a single viewing, you would be stuck in your seat for three days. When the whole thing comes to a presumably dramatic halt on Sunday, May 19-the last gasp of what we once called “appointment television”?- Game of Thrones’ tale of magic, broadswords, and power politics will have played out over eight seasons and seventy-three episodes. Sweater and trousers by Salvatore Ferragamo socks by Pantherella. ![]()
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