Game of Thrones has put its audience in several uncomfortable positions over the years. From killing off favorite characters to forcing them to sit by and watch disgusting things happen to people who don’t deserve it, and the relationship between Jaime and Cersei. However, when two of their beloved characters, Kit Harington’s Jon Snow and Emilia Clark’s Daenerys Targaryen, ended up getting together, fans saw a glimmer of hope.
That was until the rug was pulled from beneath their feet and it was revealed that they were, in fact, related. Finding out that Daenerys was Jon’s aunt was certainly on no one’s Game of Thrones bingo card.
While fans were disgusted at this aspect, there was another reason why Harington was disgusted to kiss Clarke, and it is quite funny.
Kit Harington Was Not Happy When He Had To Kiss Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones
The official YouTube account of Game of Thrones posted a comprehensive video that took the audience on a journey as they started the final season of the series. In the video, there was also one point where Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke had to kiss.
Fans absolutely adored the scene for several reasons, getting to see two characters that had been through enough, finally find something good. However, in the video, the stars had quite an interesting reaction to kissing each other. As soon as the cameras captured the moment and the scene was done, Harington pulled away and began to gag.
While Clarke’s reaction to Harington’s disgust was quite funny, many might be upset with how Jon Snow’s actor reacted to the moment. However, his explanation behind it makes it make a lot more sense.
Relationships Among Friends and Family
As Game of Thrones ended and fans were given the surprising revelation that Jon Snow was born as Aegon Targaryen and was the son of Rhaegar Targaryen, his kiss with Daenerys became very disgusting very quickly. Although the series has a habit of forcing incest down their audience’s throats and the introduction of House of the Dragon only made it worse, no one expected the two main characters to also engage in it.
While inbreeding certainly seems like a Targaryen tradition, fans could not help but very quickly begin to find Jon and Daenerys’ pairing odd. However, the incest angle was not the reason why Kit Harington got disgusted when he and Emilia Clarke kissed. During an interview with the Daily Mirror, he revealed exactly why he was uncomfortable during the moment.
Emilia and I had been best friends over a seven-year period and by the time we had to kiss it seemed really odd.
Having been a part of the same series for a very long time, Clarke and Harington grew quite close to each other and became very close friends. Much like when Harry Potter stars, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint had to kiss in the final film, Harington revealed that kissing Clarke after being best friends with her for so long felt very weird to him.
Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon are available for streaming on Max.
