Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage have finally sat down together again, seven years after they last worked side by side on Game of Thrones ended in 2019. The reunion puts two of the show’s best-known actors back in the same room for a candid conversation that ranged from Jon Snow to sobriety and getting older.
The timing matters because Harington, 39, and Dinklage, 56, are no longer just discussing the fantasy series that made them famous. Harington now appears as a series regular on HBO’s Industry, while Dinklage recently guest starred in FX’s The Lowdown. Their new interview gives fans the first public reminder in years of the chemistry that made their scenes together memorable, and of how much both men have moved on from Westeros.
Harington said their very first scene on camera was together, and that he believed he had to stand almost motionless to get it right. “I’ve just got to be really still. That’s acting for cameras. To be as still as I possibly can be, then say my lines, then go back to stillness,” he said, prompting Dinklage to joke, “Let’s embarrass the fuck out of each other.” Dinklage answered with his own blunt assessment of Harington’s early approach: “Overacting. Bad acting. Being a ham.”
The exchange turned to Jon Snow, the role that made Harington a global face of the series. Dinklage said the character could be “sort of a frozen character,” while Tyrion had more life in him. Harington laughed that he had no idea what “huge” really meant when the show began. He knew the Emmys, knew the letters HBO because of The Sopranos, and knew only that he was suddenly in an American TV show. What he did not know then was how fast success would swallow everything around him.
“It was like, ‘OK, this is good, but it’s getting a bit scary now,’” Harington said of the show’s rise. Dinklage added that the pressure sharpened once the production left Belfast. Harington pushed back with a dry correction — “I’m sorry. Exotic locations? I didn’t leave Belfast” — but the point landed anyway. The fantasy hit brought fame and opportunity, yet for Harington it also started to feel dangerous as the audience grew and the scale changed.
Dinklage, whose career was cemented by the series and its three Emmys, said his first child was born at the end of the second season, while Harington recalled that he was in his 20s and “we were just tearing it up. Everything’s electric.” Those memories, along with the talk of sobriety and age, show how much the men’s lives have changed since the show became one of HBO’s signature hits. The unresolved question is not whether they can revisit Game of Thrones; it is how many more stories they are ready to tell about what it cost them to live inside it.
