Kit Harington Almost Got Castrated By A Mechanical Dragon On The Set Of ‘Game of Thrones’
He almost lost his right testicle, to be exact.
Listen, we all know that being an actor isn’t exactly the hardest job — particularly when you’re an actor on a beloved, award-winning and commercially successful show like Game of Thrones.
Sure, laying yourself on the line emotionally is a challenge, and any job that requires you to pursue your creative dreams sets you up for some degree of loss. But when it comes to other professions such as, I dunno, sewage inspector, acting on a show that millions of people around the world obssess over is usually a walk in the park.
I say usually because, as Kit Harington knows all too well, every now and then a particularly physically demanding scene can go wrong, and all of a sudden you’re not just standing on some iceberg in Iceland muttering about iron thrones — you’re being whipped around by your own testicles.
what the FUCK i‘ll never be able to watch this scene again without thinking of this lmao #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/XGa8othfI5
— jolie (@aegonsdaenerys) April 15, 2019
See, in a pivotal scene in the premiere of the eighth season of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow rides a dragon. Kit Harington didn’t actually have to ride a dragon — this is what is called acting — but only a harmless mechanical bull that so happened to trap one of his testicles. His right testicle, to be more precise.
“The dragon swings ’round really violently, like this,” Harington tells an interviewer as part of HBO’s Game Revealed, a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the new Game of Thrones season. “And my right ball got trapped, and I didn’t have time to say ‘Stop!’ And I was being swung ’round.
“In my head, I thought, ‘This is how it ends, on this buck, swinging me around by my testicles,'” Harington says, before being met with ‘contained laughter’, according to the Game Revealed subtitles.
Having anything swing you around by your testicles is bad news. Having a mechanical dragon swing you around by your testicles is particularly bad news. But hey, at least it makes one helluva cocktail party story?
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