It’s not hard to see why so many people shipped them.
“He’s the person I’d ask, ‘How are you handling this?
Are you all right?'”
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“We were in sync, even if we were filming on opposite sides of the world.”
And though their onscreen romanceended in tragedy, Harington and Clarke’s real-life bond remains as strong as ever.
Read on for a look back through a friendship of ice and fire.
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She’s gorgeous.’
And I was like, ‘Really?
I haven’t met her yet.’
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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."
We became very fast friends quite quickly," HaringtontoldEllein 2017.
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The two were almost never together on set until season 7, however.
“Me and Emilia…we’ve followed the same path,” he added.
Probably the closest to what we were each experiencing was what the other person was experiencing."
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Clarke concurs: “Kit and I are counterparts in terms of experience,” she toldVariety.
Harington says the three of them “have been best mates for years.”
“It can get a little tricky in pubs,” he toldElle.
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“The first scene we had together, we both just started laughing,” Clarke toldVariety.
“Why are you looking at me this strange way and saying these strange lines?
You’re my friend!”
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(Skip to 13:50 inthis videoto see just such a moment.)
Before the final season’s table read, Harington hadn’t read the episode scripts.
Clarketold EWshe sat across from him to “watch him compute all of this.”
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When they reached Jon and Dany’s final moment together, “He was crying,” Clarke said.
“And then it was kind of great him not having read it.”
All TV shows must come to an end, but great friendships last forever.
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