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We have all heard stories over the years The original pilot “Game of Thrones” and how stupidly he has … And apparently, Kit Harington, who played supposed the bastard Stark Jon Snow in the sloppy pilot and the whole series, had a bad feeling about this pretty early.

In a Squire Profile in the April 2019 Issue of GQ (About a Month Before “Game of Thrones” Concluded With Its Eighth and Final Season), Harington Revealed Photos Of His Time On The “Game of Thrones” Set to Interview Bruce Handy, Which Apparently include A Shot of the original Reading table for this horrible driver. While Harington showed a photo of himself and his co-stars Richard Madden and Alfie Allen, who played Robb Stark and Theon Grayjoy, he thought about the pilot who, fortunately, has never seen the light of the day.

“This photo was taken just after the very first pilot’s table reading for” Game of Thrones ” – The pilot that no one has seen, “Harington has come”. It was a complete disaster that meant that the show had almost never been made. What happened here is that Richard, Alfie and I all met for the first time at this table. We were completely freshly out of the boat. It was a huge job for us: a pilot for HBO. American TV. It was massive. I remember that it was very, very exciting. We left the table to read, where we had just read with Sean Bean [who played Ned Stark, Jon’s apparent father who gets dramatically beheaded at the end of season 1]. “”

Harington also shared sweet memories of her other “half-brothers”, notably Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who joined Harington in the series as Sansa, Arya and Bran Stark (Legitimate Children of Ned). “We met Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Isaac Hempstead-Wright that day, and it was only these tiny little children,” recalls Harington. “I remember that Isaac looked like a puppy – it was so small – and they came running and they were very excited. I remember that I felt like an adult at the time, but looking back, I was just a child.”

The David Benioff and DB Weiss showrunners have confirmed the “disastrous” pilot halington assessment in the book “Fire cannot kill a dragon: Game of Thrones and the unprecedented official history of the epic series” By entertainment journalist James Hibberd. There, they admitted that the pilot had bad criticisms even of their own family members. “I showed it to my brother-in-law and my sister-in-law and I just looked at their reactions,” said Benioff. “You could say to watch their faces that they were bored. It was nothing that they said. They were trying to be nice.”

“You listen to how much the height of someone’s voice presents itself when they tell you it’s good -” it is GOOD!“ What is the highest that their average register is the word GOOD? It is a gauge of the way you are ” GOOD was in dogs for dogs. There were others who did not try to be nice but tried in fact to be useful. “Who to talk to, in particular? Apparently, Craig Mazin – who continued to create” Chernobyl “and is the showrunner of” The Last of Us “, who also found a former vice -president of the Drama of the Balan, you both have.” Book: “Their projection was the final confirmation for them that we had problems.”

The problems were … varied by nature, to say the least. First, the scale was too small, which was definitely linked to the fact that “Game of Thrones” had a much smaller budget at the time (you know, before it turns out to be a huge success). The dialogue was Also A problem, so much so that viewers could not understand what was going on; For example, the people who looked at this pilot did not realize that Cersei and Jaime Lannister (Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, respectively) are siblings In the story, which is in a way a huge point of the plot! (This is all the reason why Jaime pushes Bran Stark out of a window!) Add redesign problems – like how Daenerys Targaryen was originally played by Tamzin Merchant, who was then replaced by Emilia Clarke For the final pilot – and it is easy to see that the situation was a total mess.

Obviously, Benioff and Weiss understood how to reorganize the pilotAnd we finally obtained the one who broadcast on HBO. As for Kit Harington, he remained, the rough initial pilot be damned … and grew up playing Jon Snow on “Game of Thrones”.

In this same squire profile, Kit Harington pointed out something about his involvement in “Game of Thrones” which is, without any irony, extremely special. “It is quite unique as an actor to say that I was in it throughout season 1, or even the pilot, throughout season 8,” he said. “I think we are only eight of us. I feel privileged to have made my way through all of this.”

Harington exceeded it after having started this Cruddy pilot again, and alongside his new colleagues from the Sophie Turner industry, Maisie Williams and Emilia Clarke (to nam only a few), he made the arrow of glory as Jon Snow, a main objective of the show and, as I mentioned, the Stark Bastard, assumed Stark, to prove himself. In season 1, Jon uses his status as an unwanted child outside marriage to engage in the watch of the night, a bunch of disgraced men who keep the large wall which separates Westeros proper from the dangerous extreme north. Throughout the rest of the series, Jon has serious ups and extremely low – he fights white walkers in the far north and manages to destroy at least two with a Valyrian steel sword, putting aside his action in the final push against the army of the undead in the battle of Winterfell, but he Also gets stabbed by his own men after having become Lord Commander of the night watch and faces a mutiny on his acceptance of wild folk.

In addition, he sleeps with Daenerys, who turns out to be his aunt, who is not great … But speaking of this, we finally discovered that Jon Snow is not at all a bastard child. He is not the illegitimate son of Ned Stark – he is the nephew of Ned and the son of the sister of Ned Lyanna and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, who married legally in secret before his birth. It does not end impatience (Because the end of “Game of Thrones” is sort of stinkingNo matter what some of my colleagues here in / film say), but the main thing is that throughout his stay on the Epic series, Harington did a lot. It is quite funny that as a young actor, he simply faced a disastrous pilot and wondered if the show would never take off.

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