Kit Harington Admits Why His Kids May Never Watch ‘Game of Thrones’ (Exclusive)
Kit Harington‘s kids may never watch Game of Thrones, but if they want to see how their parents fell in love…
Strike that, terrible idea, not least considering the fate of their mom Rose Leslie‘s Wildling character, Ygritte.
But the fact that Harington and Leslie have children together is one of many examples of how life-changing the experience of being on GOT was for the humongous cast of actors who passed through Westeros at any given time.
Though not always in the best of ways, especially for those who basically grew up on the set of the groundbreaking HBO series.
As Isaac Hempstead Wright, who played Bran Stark, put it in The Hollywood Reporter after the series’ polarizing 2019 finale, “Your teenage years are difficult enough without the added complication of being on the world’s biggest television show.”
And that’s coming from the young man whose character won the whole darn game!
“I don’t know that it could have got any bigger, so it was nice that it stopped,” Maisie Williams, who was 12 when she auditioned for the role of Arya Stark, told Wonderland in 2020. She explained, “You’re so stuck in the schedule of shooting and promoting that your whole life just ends up revolving around the show, and you don’t really get any time for yourself, so it’s been really nice to leave all of that behind.”