Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner has admitted it was awkward doing romantic scenes with her pal Kit Harrington in a new movie as they played half-siblings in the HBO hit
Sophie Turner says it was “weird” playing Kit Harington’s lover in a movie.
The pair starred together as half-siblings Sansa Stark and Jon Snow in Game of Thrones between 2019 and 2019. But they had a very different relationship in upcoming gothic horror film The Dreadful.
Sophie, 29, admitted it was pretty awkward having to do romantic scenes with her good friend, who played a family member in the HBO hit for eight seasons. Pretty understandable, then.
Speaking in a video interview with Vogue, she said: “I did a movie last year which I’m really excited about with my old but very good friend Kit Harington, who played my brother on Game of Thrones.
“We’re doing a gothic horror… but we play lovers.” Sophie shuddered as she apologised to viewers. She said: “Sorry, guys. It’s really weird for all of us.”
Incestuous relationships were common in Game of Thrones and Sophie had previously teased “things could happen” between Sansa and Jon, particularly after his true parentage was revealed. However, but she admitted she would find it uncomfortable.
Speaking in 2016, she told Access Hollywood: “Things could happen, things couldn’t happen. They are cousins and it is Game of Thrones. I could not do that with Kit. There’s no way I could do those kind of scenes with Kit- I’d laugh way too much.”
Despite finding it “weird” playing Kit’s lover in The Dreadful, which is set in the 15th century during the War of the Roses, Sophie actually pushed producers to cast the 38-year-old in the flick.
She told the Sunday Times newspaper: “They were trying to find someone for that role, and I was like, ‘You can’t not have Kit.’ It’s set around the time of the Wars of the Roses, so we’ll probably be floating about in robes on clifftops again.”
Sophie – who shares Willa, four, and three-year-old Delphine with ex-husband Joe Jonas – has joked she “got [her] sex education” from Game of Thrones. During an appearance on the Dish podcast, she said: “I definitely got my sex education from that show. More than enough.”
Sophie also likened her castmates to family members, explaining: “I never had proper formal training, so I got to learn from the amazing actors around me, which I felt like I won a competition. But it was great. We all were a family.
“My character, I got to live with. So it felt like we kind of merged into one person by the end of it. But it was amazing.”
Sophie admits that the show “informed [her] entire life in terms of like business decisions, just etiquette on set, how to act”. She added: “Everything I learned from Game of Thrones – and a bit from my parents.”
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