Kit Harington Calls Filming Sex Scenes with Sophie Turner ‘Disgusting’ After Years as Siblings
Kit Harington labeled filming sex scenes with Sophie Turner as “gross,” a shocking admission given their history as siblings on Game of Thrones.
“It was weird,” Harington stated bluntly in a recent interview with Peter Dinklage for CNN’s Actors on Actors.
Harington and Turner grew up on the set of Game of Thrones, portraying Jon Snow and Sansa Stark. They spent years believing they were siblings before the truth emerged that they were actually first cousins.
Their close bond made it uncomfortable when Turner asked Harington to play her lover in The Dreadful. Turner produced and starred in the gothic horror film, while Harington took on the role of a sinister stranger who disrupts the lives of Anne and her mother-in-law Morwen.
“She sent me the script and I said, ‘Sophie, there’s a lot of us getting it on,’” Harington revealed. He noted that Turner hadn’t realized the extent of their intimate scenes. She simply responded, “Yeah, Kit would be good for this part.”
Harington hesitated to accept the role in The Dreadful because he has known Turner since she was a child and views her as “a younger sister.”
“We did it. It was gross but it was fine,” he insisted. “She’s an amazing actor. I know we all know that but she was a child when she started on Game of Thrones. She is phenomenal!”
Turner echoed Harington’s discomfort during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers last year, admitting she was horrified at the prospect of filming love scenes with him.
“I’d just got the script for this amazing gothic horror called The Dreadful, and I was reading through all the characters,” she explained. “And I’m producing it, so the director was asking me, ‘Who do you think?’ And immediately, the first person I thought of was Kit.”
She continued, “So, I sent the script to Kit, and 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.’ And I was like, what is he talking about? Then I was reading it, and I’m like, ‘Kiss, kiss, sex, kiss, sex scene.’ And then I’m like, oh shoot, that’s my brother. But it’s such a good script that he’s like, ‘We kind of have to do it.’”
Turner joked that despite the great script for The Dreadful, filming the love scenes remained awkward.
“We put it out of our minds, and then we get on set, and it’s the first kissing scene,” she recalled. “And we are both retching, like really, it is vile. It was the worst, another really bad moment in my career.”
The Dreadful was released in February.
