In Switzerland's ‘Watch Valley,' I slow-travelled to tiny villages and towns where time seems to stand still
From this lofty vantage, Murten 's cobblestone streets, Gothic castle and ancient limestone tower take me back centuries, to a time of witch trials and, even more distant, to the bubonic plague of the 1300s. I can almost hear the town crier shouting to villagers, 'Bring out your dead!'
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The pair are set to play lovers in the upcoming gothic horror, "The Dreadful." After years of starring as half-siblings for eight seasons of Game of Thrones, Sophie Turner and Kit Harington were both seriously grossed out playing lovers in their upcoming gothic horror film, The Dreadful. The actress, who played the Queen of the North Sansa Stark on the hit HBO fantasy series, explained on Thursday's episode of Late Night that both she and Harington, who starred as Jon Snow, felt sick to their stomaches after shooting their first kiss scene together for the film. 'We get on set and it's the first kissing scene and we are both retching,' Turner revealed. 'Like, really, it is vile. It was the worst. Another really bad moment in my career.' Written and directed by Natasha Kermani, The Dreadful follows outsider Anne (Turner) as her life is turned upside down after the arrival of a mysterious man from her past. Turner, who also serves as a producer on the film, explained earlier in the interview that she knew right away that Harington was the perfect person to play Anne's lover Jago — but hadn't exactly realized what their characters' romance would require of them. 'I just got this script for this amazing Gothic horror called The Dreadful and I was reading through all the characters and I'm producing it so the director was asking me, 'Who do you think?'' She recalled. 'And immediately the first person I thought of was Kit.' So, naturally, she sent the script Harington's way and received an interested, but slightly hesitant, response in return. 'He kind of sent me a message back going like, 'Yeah, I'd love to, but this is going to be really f---ing weird, Soph,'' Turner recalled. 'And I was like, 'What is he talking about?' And then I was reading it and I'm like, kiss, kiss, sex, kiss, sex, and then I'm like, 'Oh, shoot, that's my brother.'' In the end, the pair decided that it was 'such a good script' that they couldn't let the idea of having to play lovers throw them off. She added, 'He was like, 'We kind of have to do it.'' That didn't make the reality of having to actually kiss one another any easier, though. When asked by host Seth Meyers if kissing Harington was worse than being covered in real-life cockroaches for her new film Trust, Turner admitted, "Yeah. Yeah, it was. I have to be honest, it was bad.' Watch Turner discuss kissing Harington — and accidentally ending a couple's engagement at a party — in the clip above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
