The last season of Game of thrones Late last weekend, HBO staged a behind-the-scenes documentary to help fans overcome the fact that there would never be a new episode … never. The doc was two full hours and there was so much insider knowledge to digest. Here are the 11 most interesting things we learned.
Spoilers coming for the last season of Game of thrones and for the documentary that followed. Get out of this post if you have not watched!
Kit Harington cried when he heard that Jon Snow had killed Dany.
Kit received scripts from the last season three days before he was supposed to be in Belfast for reading the chart, but he did not read them like the rest of the cast. He chose to read them for the first time in the presence of all the other participants, which allowed him to react in a truly authentic way.
Which brings us to a clip of Kit crying that Jon Snow killed Dany. He will destroy you, just warning.
If that did not bring you enough tears, here is an excerpt from him on his last day of filming.
RIP my lachrymal ducts!
The guy who played Varys seemed pretty angry at the death of his character.
Conleth Hill, who played Varys, had a rather different reaction to the death of his character, which you can watch here.
Basically, he is not happy!
The scripts were shredded after reading the table.
For security reasons / leak / spoiler, duh. They used digital scripts for almost everything afterwards.
The snow on the plateau is actually paper.
Fun fact, all this snow in Winterfell and everywhere else is not it, there is only paper and water. The guy who was responsible for it literally called Head of Snow and was an absolute character.
Moreover, if real snow fell on the fake snow, it would ruin it. L & # 39; irony!
They could not whiten the horses after applying fake blood to them.
So, they literally had a group of pink horses running everywhere.
Emilia Clarke wore a bald cap under her wig.
As Emilia Clarke's hair was naturally brown, her roots could be seen when she wore her wig. The hair supervisors started to put on a bald cap. They painted the bald cap according to his complexion, then put the wig over it. & # 39; Twas a process.
At first glance, Emilia was the first person to have hair every day.
HBO sent part of the distribution to Spain to create diversions.
In order to deter people from landing on the dragon pit scene, HBO brought some people to the location in Spain who were not even present. Kit, the king of the night, Jaqen H & ghar and the girl who played the Waif were all present, but none of them was present. Jaqen H & # 39; ghar and Waif did not even appear in season eight.
That's where this iconic image comes from ….
At one point during the filming, there was no toilet on the set in Ireland.
There was a big snowstorm (called the East Beast), which meant that one day of shooting, there were 250 extras, all team members, and practically no toilet, because the water from the bottoms was frozen. Ice cubes hung at the taps.
The night shoots were absolutely crazy.
One person reported returning home and falling asleep at 9:30 am and woke up at 1:30 pm in the afternoon. Another girl said that she would beg to buckle at 3 am instead of 6 am.
People in Spain have called Kit "Keet" because of their accent, so all the actors have called it so.
You can hear them doing it at the beginning of this clip.
The extras made jackets each year.
One of the supplements, Andrew McClay, was a member of the Stark Guard every year. He was a bit of the extras leader, and they had jackets made, which is precious and adorable.
Some of the extras were friends and family of the crew.
One of the themes of the documentary was the sacrifice that the troupe and the team made for Season 8 to happen. For example, the prosthesis managers were actually husband and wife and they were separated from their daughter for weeks.
Fortunately, their daughter was able to visit them on the set during the shoot, and she was even an extra in the very last scene where the Indians walk in the forest with Jon.