Kit Harington is looking back at an “embarrassing” moment he had while filming a kissing scene with Sophie Turner — and, no, it wasn’t just because they once played siblings on Game of Thrones.
The 38-year-old actor revealed in a recent E! News interview that he had to stand atop an apple box in order to kiss Turner for a scene in their upcoming Gothic horror film, The Dreadful.
“It was slightly embarrassing, having to get on an apple box to kiss her because she’s about a foot taller than me,” he told the outlet. “But other than that, my dignity was pretty intact.”
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Kit Harington and Sophie Turner attend the ‘Game of Thrones’ season 5 U.K. premiere in 2015
Apple boxes aside, Harington was grateful to have the chance to work with Turner, 29, after their eight-year-long stint together on Game of Thrones.
“It was a good chance to be with her again and work together,” he said. “What was lovely is that we got on set together and our friendship completely ignited again. It felt like being with family. It really did.”
Written and directed by Natasha Kermani, The Dreadful stars Turner as Anne, a young woman whose life is turned upside down after the arrival of a mysterious man from her past.
Speaking with Seth Meyers on Late Night in August, Turner said that she knew immediately that Harington would be the perfect person to play her character’s lover Jago — but hadn’t really considered what the material would require of them.
“He kind of sent me a message back going like, ‘Yeah, I’d love to, but this is going to be really f—ing weird, Soph,’” Turner recalled. “And I was like, ‘What is he talking about?’ And then I was reading it and I’m like, kiss, kiss, sex, kiss, sex, and then I’m like, ‘Oh, shoot, that’s my brother.’”
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The pair decided in the end that the script was simply too good for them to pass up just because they once played siblings. She added, “He was like, ‘We kind of have to do it.’”
That didn’t make the eventual kissing scenes any easier, though.
“We get on set and it’s the first kissing scene and we are both retching,” Turner confessed. “Like, really, it is vile. It was the worst. Another really bad moment in my career.”
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