Promoting the final season of Game of Thrones, actor Kit Harington covers Esquire’s May 2019 issue. Alexi Lubomirski photographs Harington in a sleek designer wardrobe styled by Matthew Marden. Reflecting on his experience filming Game of Thrones, Harington reflects on meeting his costar Emilia Clarke for the first time. I remember the first time I ever saw her. She came into the Fitzwilliam bar.
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Harington continues, I had been talking to Rich Madden at the bar and he went,
I’ve just met the new Daenerys. She’s gorgeous.
And I was like, Really? I haven’t met her yet.
And then she came in and I saw her and was like, Wow.
She takes your breath away when she walks into a room, Emilia.
Bonding with Clarke over the years, Harington explains, I think we’re good mates because we, maybe more than anyone else, know what the other one’s going through a bit. I don’t mean to sound like we’re going through the worst thing in the world. But I think no one else other than Emilia will know exactly what being on Thrones is like, the way we’re on Thrones. That’s really how we kind of bonded.
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