Actors sometimes spend years escaping their most famous roles.
Los Angeles | June 2026. Kit Harington spoke candidly about filming intimate scenes with Sophie Turner in the gothic horror film The Dreadful, describing the experience as awkward because both remain strongly associated with Jon Snow and Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones.
The discomfort came from public memory. For nearly a decade, audiences saw them as characters raised as siblings, which made their new romantic dynamic feel strange even for the actors themselves. Harington acknowledged the awkwardness, while also recognizing that the scenes made sense within the film’s story.
The reunion reveals how powerful iconic roles can become. Actors may move on professionally, but audiences often continue to read them through the characters that made them famous. That memory can follow performers into every new project.
For Harington and Turner, accepting the challenge was part of the craft. Their task was not only to act differently, but to persuade viewers to suspend years of emotional association built by another story.
The case shows that fiction can leave a lasting imprint beyond the screen. Sometimes the hardest role is not the new one, but escaping the old one.
Narrative is power too. / La narrativa también es poder.