Kit Harington Got Emotional During the Table Read For 'Game of Thrones' Finale

23:17 - 12 August 2024

Kit Harington Teared Up in 'GoT' Finale Table Read

It's been a week since the Game of Thrones series finale, but fans are still reeling from the events of the episode, most notably the death of Daenerys Targaryen at the hands of Jon Snow - and they're not alone. Kit Harington, who played Jon for eight seasons, had an impassioned reaction to that climactic scene during a table read for the final episode.

Kit Harington and Emilia Clarkes reactions to *that* moment in the final episode are priceless https://t.co/I0IWJG6o7g pic.twitter.com/BZGB7ytOWN - UPROXX (@UPROXX) May 27, 2019

The moving moment was captured in HBO's documentary The Last Watch, which went behind the scenes of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones. Harington visibly welled up when it was revealed that Jon had stabbed Dany - and looked straight to actress Emilia Clarke, whose reaction was pretty priceless too.

The truncated final season of Game of Thrones was divisive, to say the least, with many viewers criticizing the accelerated storytelling and leaps in logic, especially regarding Dany's descent into madness . But Harington has no time for critics of the show, he told Esquire .

I think no matter what anyone thinks about this season-and I dont mean to sound mean about critics here-but whatever critic spends half an hour writing about this season and makes their [negative] judgement on it, in my head they can go fuck themselves. 'Cause I know how much work was put into this. I know how much people cared about this. I know how much pressure people put on themselves and I know how many sleepless nights working or otherwise people had on this show. Because they cared about it so much. Because they cared about the characters. Because they cared about the story. Because they cared about not letting people down. Now if people feel let down by it, I dont give a fuck-because everyone tried their hardest. Thats how I feel. In the end, no ones bigger fans of the show than we are, and were kind of doing it for ourselves. Thats all we could do, really. And I was just happy we got to the end.

The Last Watch also included the moment where the entire cast found out that Arya was the character who would kill the Night King, and the room erupted into cheers - well, everyone except Harington, who was notoriously "pissed off" that it wasn't Jon.