Bella Ramsey ‘Vividly’ Remembers ‘Humiliating’ Kit Harington on the “Game of Thrones” Set in Their First Scene Together

• Bella Ramsey opened up about their time on Game of Thrones in a conversation with Kit Harington for Interview magazine. Ramsey played Lyanna Mormont on the series, while Harington played Jon Snow

• Ramsey remembered that while filming their first scene together, Harington forgot his lines, and they mouthed his lines to him

• Harington assured Ramsey he didn’t find it “annoying,” and that at the time he was impressed with the young star’s “confidence and clarity”

Bella Ramsey was just 11 years old when they filmed their first professional role as Lyanna Mormont on Game of Thrones. And the actor does have some regrets.

Ramsey, now 21, spoke to their Game of Thrones costar Kit Harington for an article published by Interview magazine on April 28. Ramsey played Lyanna Mormont, the pint-sized head of House Mormont who inherits the family’s leadership after all the rest of them die. Lyanna first appeared in season 6 and became a fan-favorite breakout, and Ramsey returned for the seventh and eighth seasons (in which Lyanna died heroically during the Battle of Winterfell). Harington, 38, played one of the series leads, Jon Snow.

Harington told Ramsey that he remembered meeting them for the first time, right before their first scene. “I’m going to blow a bit of smoke here, so I’m sorry, but there was a real feeling of you being a different entity of child actor. We were like, ‘Oh, they’re good,’ ” Harington said. “You brought a confidence and clarity that was quite unusual for a young actor. It didn’t feel like working with a child. It felt like working with a very experienced actor.”

“I remember not feeling like a child, but now I see 11-year-olds and realize how tiny they are, so it’s weird to me that I was that size and that young, because I didn’t feel that tiny,” Ramsey said. But then they brought up the major faux pas they committed while filming that first scene with Harington.

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“I don’t know whether you remember this, but I remember it quite vividly and have some remorse for it now, but during that scene I was mouthing your lines to you,” Ramsey said. “Now I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, how awful.’ But at the time, it came from a very innocent place of being like, ‘Kit’s struggling with his line and I know it, so let me just mouth it to him.’ ”

“I do remember you helping me out and it being quite humiliating,” Harington said with a laugh, joking he had “probably chosen to forget it.” Ramsey said they “need to forget it” because it was “so annoying.”

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But Harington said he really wasn’t bothered at the time.

“If anything, I was like, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to up my game. I came here not really being comfortable enough with my lines, in the arrogance of however old I was, thinking I’m just opposite some child. And then that child actor is wiping me off the screen.’ Not that it’s a competition, but you’re like, ‘Oh, I’ve got a bit too comfortable in my Jon Snow-ness.’ ” Ramsey said that was “fair enough” since Harington was in his sixth season of the behemoth show.

Ramsey now stars in HBO’s The Last of Us, alongside fellow Game of Thrones alumnus Pedro Pascal (though his GoT character, Oberyn Martell, died in season 4, two years before Ramsey joined the series).

Back in 2019, when the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones aired, Ramsey told The Cut that they “didn’t expect” the fan response to Lyanna at all.

“I wasn’t sure whether people would like her or not, because she’s quite a unique character,” the actor, who was 15 at the time, admitted. And because of their age, Ramsey hadn’t even watched most of the show outside of “bits” here and there, though their favorite characters were Maisie Williams’ Arya and Gwendoline Christie’s Brienne of Tarth.

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Their favorite part of the role was, they said, “the opportunity to stand up in front of a load of grown men and shame them.” The Catherine Called Birdy star explained, “I think playing confident characters also helps with your own confidence. Say you’re in a situation where you’re feeling anxious or nervous — you can become a character and work through it that way. I’ll miss that about her.”

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