From one star of an HBO fantasy juggernaut to another, former co-stars and friends Kit Harington and Bella Ramsey recently reconnected to reminisce about their time filming Game of Thrones, in which the latter portrayed noblewoman Lyanna Mormont beginning in Season 6.
The two sat down with Interview Magazine, where Harington questioned Ramsey about their debut role in the lauded series, in which he memorably played hero Jon Snow over the course of eight seasons.
“I remember not feeling like a child, but now I see 11-year-olds and realize how tiny they are, so it’s weird to me that I was that size and that young, because I didn’t feel that tiny,” The Last of Us star said. “I don’t know whether you remember this, but I remember it quite vividly and have some remorse for it now, but during [our introduction] scene I was mouthing your lines to you.”
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They continued, “Now I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, how awful.’ But at the time it came from a very innocent place of being like, ‘Kit’s struggling with his line and I know it, so let me just mouth it to him.’”
For his part, Harington jokingly said the incident was “quite humiliating.”
“It wasn’t [annoying] at all,” he continued. “If anything I was like, ‘Oh god, I’ve got to up my game. I came here not really being comfortable enough with my lines, in the arrogance of however old I was, thinking I’m just opposite some child. And then that child actor is wiping me off the screen.’ Not that it’s a competition, but you’re like, ‘Oh, I’ve got a bit too comfortable in my Jon Snow-ness.’”
Elsewhere in the interview, Harington praised Ramsey’s performance in the action adventure drama series, saying they “brought a confidence and clarity that was quite unusual for a young actor.”
Meanwhile, Ramsey maintained that — despite the role being their professional acting debut, and in a major franchise at that — they weren’t as anxious due to a lack of experience: “It was my first job ever, so I had no reference point for what it would be like. I weirdly wasn’t nervous at all, because I never knew that I wanted to be an actor, so I didn’t have a bunch of expectations. I was coming into it very much blind.”