{"id":40843,"date":"2026-02-08T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=40843"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:40:46","slug":"we-were-both-retching-sophie-turner-reveals-the-one-scene-with-kit-harington-that-made-them-physically-sick-calling-it-vile-and-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=40843","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Were Both Retching.\u201d \u2014 Sophie Turner Reveals the One Scene With Kit Harington That Made Them Physically Sick, Calling It \u201cVile\u201d and \u201cThe Worst.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They survived dragons, betrayals, and the Long Night\u2014but nothing in Westeros prepared them for this. As press ramps up for the February 20 release of The Dreadful<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, Sophie Turner<\/span><\/span><\/strong> has stunned fans by revealing that one particular scene with Kit Harington<\/span><\/span><\/strong> was so uncomfortable it made them physically ill.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem wasn\u2019t gore, darkness, or supernatural horror. It was a kiss.<\/span><\/p>\n

After spending nearly a decade playing siblings Sansa Stark and Jon Snow on Game of Thrones<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, Turner and Harington were asked to do the unthinkable in their new project: portray romantic lovers. According to Turner, their bodies outright rejected the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s My Brother\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

Turner, who also served as a producer on the film, was the one who initially approached Harington about joining the cast. At the time, she hadn\u2019t fully clocked what the script demanded. That realization came later\u2014and painfully.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent interview, Turner recalled rereading the screenplay and suddenly noticing a pattern: kiss, kiss, intimate scene, repeat. The professional alarm bells didn\u2019t ring at first. The personal ones did. \u201cOh, shoot,\u201d she remembered thinking. \u201cThat\u2019s my brother.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While the two actors understood intellectually that they are not related and had never actually played biological siblings on the show, the emotional wiring was already locked in. Years of shared trauma scenes, late-night shoots, and off-screen friendship had cemented them as family in every way that mattered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Scene That Broke Them<\/span><\/h3>\n

The first day of filming their intimate scene shattered any illusion that they could simply \u201cact through it.\u201d Turner admitted that when cameras rolled, both she and Harington experienced an immediate physical reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were both retching,\u201d she said bluntly, describing the moment as \u201cvile\u201d and calling it \u201cthe worst\u201d experience of her career. Crew members reportedly paused filming while the actors tried to regroup, suppressing laughter, gag reflexes, and sheer disbelief at the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Harington later added his own layer of embarrassment, revealing he had to stand on an apple box to kiss Turner due to their height difference\u2014an awkward logistical detail that only amplified the absurdity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Horror, History, and a Stark Reunion<\/span><\/h3>\n

Set during the War of the Roses in 15th-century England, The Dreadful<\/em> follows Anne (Turner) and her mother-in-law Morwen, played by Marcia Gay Harden<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, as they survive on society\u2019s fringes. Harington\u2019s character, Jago, returns from Anne\u2019s past, unleashing a dark chain of supernatural events.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the infamous first kiss, both actors insist the reunion was overwhelmingly positive. Harington described the shoot as joyful, saying their friendship \u201cignited again\u201d and that working together still felt like being with family.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, that unbreakable bond is exactly what made the scene unbearable.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, The Dreadful<\/em> delivered genuine horror\u2014but not just on screen. For Turner and Harington, the most unsettling part wasn\u2019t the gothic terror. It was proving that even years later, in their hearts, they\u2019re still Starks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They survived dragons, betrayals, and the Long Night\u2014but nothing in Westeros prepared them for this. As press ramps up for the February 20 release of The Dreadful, Sophie Turner has stunned fans by revealing that one particular scene with Kit Harington was so uncomfortable it made them physically ill. The problem wasn\u2019t gore, darkness, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}