Game Of Thrones actor Kit Harington has confessed to telling one person how the series ends because the weight of keeping it a secret “got too much”.
The British actor, who shot to fame as Jon Snow on the HBO series, admitted that the “intensity” of being a part of the final scenes but not being able to talk about it was “so hard” that he had to find a way to cope.
“It got too much, so I’ve told one person – my friend James, who doesn’t watch the show and fell asleep in the first episode of the very first season,” Harington told Graham Norton. “I knew then that he was zero interested in what I do.”
Chatting to the host on his self-titled show, Harington joked that his friend “couldn’t look less interested if he tried” despite being told how the fantasy series ends.
Teasing the final scenes of the popular show, which began in 2011, Harington said that they had “upped the budget and gone to town”.
“It is really exciting,” he said. “There are some incredible sequences, but I’ve woken up in the middle of the night recently thinking, ‘What if, after eight seasons, we’ve mucked it up!”
But Harington remained tight-lipped on the episode that took them 55-night shoots in a row to make.
He said: “I’m not sure I should tell you about it, but it was so intense we were all on the edge of killing each other.”
The 32-year-old recently said that fans should prepare for “big moments”.
When quizzed by Seth Myers on the final table read, Harington said: “Of course [there's palpable moments]. It’s going to be a terrible last season [if not]. I’ve just been deadpan like ‘nothing happened’. I can say that there are definite big moments.”
Harington has previously hinted that he had been quite good at keeping the finale a secret, not even telling his wife and former co-star Rose Leslie.
In January, Harington told the Standard that he had an “understanding” with Leslie that she “shouldn’t push too hard” if she really doesn’t want to know how it ends.
Also on the sofa on Friday night is Avengers Endgame star Chris Hemsworth, actress Julianne Moore and singer Tom Walker.
The Graham Norton Show airs Friday at 10.35pm on BBC One.
