Game Of Thrones: 10 Scenes Actors Hated Filming
3. Jon Snow’s Dragon Ride – Kit Harington
During the opening episode of the final season, Jon Snow has his first dragon ride on the back of Rhaegal. Alongside Daenerys and Drogon, the pair of them swoop past Winterfell and glide across treetops and valleys.
CGI is essential when creating a scene like this, but there’s still a fair degree of acting involved. Emilia Clarke, having been acquainted with the mechanics of dragon-riding since Season 5, got through this scene without too much difficulty.
Kit Harington, on the other hand, encountered a rather awkward problem. Somehow, he managed to get his right testicle caught in the mechanical buck he was riding:
“There was a bit where Jon almost falls of the dragon…And my right ball got trapped…In my head, I thought, this is how it ends – on this buck, swinging me around by my testicles.”
Despite this rather tongue-in-cheek description, Harington’s embarrassing accident was immensely painful. Fortunately, the actor didn’t suffer any long-term damage.