Sophie Turner says playing ‘lovers’ with Game of Thrones brother Kit Harington in their upcoming movie was weird.
After playing half-siblings Sansa Stark and Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, the duo is reuniting for The Dreadful, a gothic horror film set during the War of the Roses.
“I did a movie last year which I’m really excited about with my old but very good friend Kit Harington, who played my brother on Game of Thrones,” Turner, 29, told Vogue in a Wednesday video. “We’re doing a gothic horror… but we play lovers.”
With a grimace, Turner apologized to the viewers who watched them as siblings on the HBO drama, adding, “Sorry, guys. It’s really weird for all of us.”
The Dreadful is set against the backdrop of the War of the Roses, following Anne (Sophie Turner) and her mother-in-law Morwen (Marcia Gay Harden), who will be shown living a harsh life on the outskirts. Things start changing when a man (Kit Harington) returns from their past, setting off a sequence of unexpected events, stated Deadline.
The film’s cast also features Laurence O’Fuarain and Jonathan Howard. Further details about the plot and the release date are still unknown.
Turner disclosed that she was responsible for casting Harington alongside her in the upcoming horror film.
“They were trying to find someone for that role, and I was like, ‘You can’t not have Kit,’” Turner told The Times in a story published in September 2024.
“It’s set around the time of the Wars of the Roses, so we’ll probably be floating about in robes on clifftops again,” she explained.
Sophie, who has a four-year-old daughter named Willa and three-year-old Delphine with her ex-husband Joe Jonas, previously joked that she “got [her] sex education” from Game of Thrones.
During an appearance on the Dish podcast, she quipped: “I definitely got my sex education from that show. More than enough.”
The Joan star said that the series “informed my entire life in terms of like business decisions, just etiquette on set, how to act.“
“I never had proper formal training, so I got to learn from the amazing actors around me, which I felt like I won a competition,” she said of her costars, which included Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey and Maisie Williams. “But it was great. We all were a family.”
After nine years playing Sansa, Turner said of her character, “It felt like we kind of merged into one person by the end of it. But it was amazing.”
