Kit Harington he admitted that it was “bad” to film the sex scenes Sophie Turner for their horror movie Scary because of their past Game of Thrones.
“It was weird,” Harington, 39, admitted in a recent interview with his co-star Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage of CNN Actors in Actors.
Harington and Turner, 30, actually grew up together on the set of Game of Throneswhere they played Jon Snow and Sansa Stark, respectively. For most of the show, Jon and Sansa believed they were siblings before it was revealed that they were first cousins.
However, it is a bond between the two inside and outside Game of Thrones the setup was complicated when Turner asked Harington to play his lover Scary. (Turner produced and starred in the gothic horror film, in which Harington portrayed a sinister stranger who reappeared in the lives of Anne and her mother-in-law Morwen.)
“She sent me a text and I said, 'Sophie, we're getting a lot,'” Harington revealed. “He hadn't seen that. He just said, 'Yeah, Kit's going to be good for the part.
Harington was initially hesitant about accepting the role Scary because “he is known [Turner] since she was little” and considers her “a little sister.
“We did it. It was bad but it was going well,” he stressed. “He is an amazing actor, I know we all know that but he was a child when he was young [started on Game of Thrones]. You are amazing!”
Sophie Turner, Kit Harington in “The Dreadful.”
Lionsgate Collection / Courtesy EverettTurner revealed during an appearance Late Night With Seth Meyers last year that he was equally horrified by the thought of shooting love scenes with Turner.
“I just found a script for this horrible horrible thing called Scaryand I was studying all the characters,” he explained to the host Seth Meyers. “And I'm producing it, so the director was asking me, 'Who do you think it is?' And immediately, the first person I thought of was Kit.”
He continued, “So, I texted Kit, and he texted me back saying, 'Yeah, I'd love to, but this is going to be really weird, Soph.' And I was like, what are you talking about? Then I read it, and I was like, 'Kiss, kiss, sex, kiss, sex scene.' Then I said, oh shoot, that's my brother. But it's such a good script that you say, 'We have to do it.'
When it comes to filming sex scenes for TV shows and movies, actors have had a variety of good and bad experiences. Intimacy coordinator Brooke M. Haney previously opened up to Us Weekly about how hot photo shoots between actors go down on set. Contrary to what some fans might think, Haney said that […]
Turner jokes that it's a great script Scary it didn't make filming the love scenes difficult.
“We put it out of our minds, then we get on board, and it's the first kiss scene,” he recalled. “And we're both repeating, like, really bad. It was the worst, one of the worst times in my career.”
Scary released in February.
