Game of Thrones bosses went to town playing jokes on their cast, but a lie to Kit Harington about the fate of Jon Snow is the sort of genius writing the final season could have done with.
Despite dying back in season five, Jon sailed to the end with a relatively smooth ride. He killed his lover, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), who later turned out to be his auntie, sure – but incest and murder aside, he’s got a decent future ahead of him with pals at The Wall.
However, writers D.B Weiss and David Benioff had Kit quaking when they convinced the 32-year-old Jon was going to be mauled by a dog, sealing the star’s fate for hours in prosthetics.
Arya Stark star Maisie Williams laid it all out in an episode of ‘Hot Ones’ on YouTube, where she also revealed Alfie Allen didn’t get off lightly either.
‘They told Alfie Allen that he was killed by Bran in a really anticlimactic way,’ she giggled, revealing the Theon Greyjoy star ended up texting Isaac Hempstead Wright about Bran making his first kill.
But they really got Jon.
‘They said he got really aggressively mauled on the face and he was going to have a huge disfigurement on his beautiful, chiselled jaw,’ Maisie grinned. ‘That one was quite funny, poor guy.’
Alfie previously admitted the tables were accidentally turned when he read of Theon’s demise in a fake script. Weiss and Benioff actually dragged out the lie that was Theon’s death for three weeks, before they ended up caving fearing Lily Allen’s little brother would be ‘tearing his hair out’.
They couldn’t have been more wrong.
‘I kind of just took it on the chin and got on with it,’ the actor said on The Late Late Show With James Corden. ‘But I wasn’t, I was sunbathing.’
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