Sophie Turner and Kit Harington famously played Sansa Stark and Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, cousins who were raised thinking they were half-siblings. Either way, they're related. But that didn't stop a lot of fans from fantasizing about a potential romance between the two, especially after they reunited after a long separation in the sixth season and started working together. If you go to Archive of Our Own, the internet's foremost repository of fan-fiction, you'll find over 6,000 stories written about this pair. Does that tell us anything about Game of Thrones fans, about fan-fiction authors, about society's attitudes towards incest? I don't know; I'm just here to share interesting facts.
Anyway, this all brings us to The Dreadful, an upcoming horror movie set in medieval times starring Turner as a woman named Anne who lives on the outskirts of society with her mother-in-law, played by Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden. Jago, a man from their past, arrives at their home and turns their lives upside down.
Jago is played by Kit Harington, whom Turner recommended for the part. "They were trying to find someone for that role, and I was like, 'You can’t not have Kit,'" she told the Sunday Times last year. "It’s set around the time of the Wars of the Roses, so we’ll probably be floating about in robes on clifftops again." Now, in a new video from Vogue, Turner admits that her character and Harington's characters get very close:
"I did a movie last year which I'm really excited about with my old but very good friend Kit Harington, who played my brother onGame of Thrones," Turner said. "We're doing a gothic horror… but we play lovers."
And therein lies the potential awkwardness. "Sorry, guys," Turner says. "It's really weird for all of us."
The Dreadful doesn't have a release date yet, but we should expect it sometime this year. As for the strangeness of Sophie Turner and Kit Harington getting intimate onscreen, hopefully enough time has passed since Game of Thrones for it not to feel too uncomfortable. And for those Game of Thrones fans who never had a problem with this pairing to begin with, I guess this is their lucky day. I can't think of another show that got people debating whether incest was really that bad, for better or worse...or worse.
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