Game of Thrones stars have admitted that filming the drama filled fantasy show was often a ‘miserable’ and ‘frightening’ experience.
Speaking about an upcoming battle scene, which took a reported 55 consecutive nights to shoot, Jacob Anderson, who plays Grey Worm, said: “You know what it was occasionally miserable. But as a general rule, I’ve never done anything like that and I might never do anything like that ever again in my life.”
And adding an element of fear, he said he often felt unsettled about the fact there were armed men and women running chaotically around him on set.
He said: “It was real stuff, it was a real tactile thing that I could interact with and there was a day where there were a lot of people running around, and given weapons to run around, and it was like genuinely scary.
“People were running past you, like knocking you with shields and swords and it was like okay. There were times when you would look around and not see anything like a camera or any sort of evidence of that, you were fully immersed.”
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Co-star, Joe Dempsey, who plays Gendry, agreed, saying: “Like Jacob said, there were nights that were difficult. But there were so many moments where you could turn to the actor next to you and say, and probably for the first and only time in my career, to say, that you were making part of TV history and we are in it. It’s cool, it was amazing.”
Meanwhile, Gemma Whelan, who portrays Yara Greyjoy dubbed the scene when she was captured by her uncle when he attacked the Targaryen fleet at sea in series seven as one of her toughest scenes to shoot yet.
She said: “That was one of my very coldest days, was trying to say lines with a frozen mouth. We had to go and warm up and try again.”
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