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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sophie Turner reveals kiss with Kit Harington made them both 'retch'
Sophie Turner has revealed she was left retching when she had to kiss her Game Of Thrones co-star Kit Harington on set. The 29-year-old actress made the bombshell revelation on an episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers last week. In the hit HBO series, Sophie and Kit have a sibling-like relationship as they play brother and sister Jon Snow and Sansa Stark, but things got weird during filming for their upcoming horror movie The Dreadful, which is set in the 15th century during the Wars Of The Roses. Sophie is a producer on the upcoming movie and she explained on the talk show how Kit was perfect to play the male lead. She said she sent the script over to Kit, 38, in hopes it would be of interest. She went on: 'So, I sent the script to Kit and 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". 'And I was like, "What is he talking about?" Then I was reading [the script] and it's like, "Kiss, kiss, sex, kiss, sex…" And then I'm like, "Oh, shoot, that's my brother".' But the two actors saw too good a chance to turn the script down, so they went ahead with filming. Describing their kiss as 'vile', Sophie said: 'We put it out of our minds, and then we get on set and it's the first kissing scene, and we are both retching. Like, really, it is vile. It was the worst.' The Dreadful doesn't have a release date just yet, but it follows Anne, played by Sophie, and her mother-in-law Morwen (Marcia Gay Harden), who live on the outskirts of society, and whose lives are upturned when a man from their past, played by Kit, returns. Elsewhere on the talk show, she stunned fans with a wild confession, claiming she was to blame for a celebrity couple calling off their engagement after a single run-in at a Hollywood event. Reflecting on the first time she met Seth over a decade ago at San Diego Comic-Con, she said: 'We were going to have a great night… and I can't name names 'cause I'll get in trouble… but I had brought my best friend from school days and she saw an actor she absolutely loved and asked if I could just say hi.' Sophie admitted she'd never met the unidentified actor before, so she gave him a weak little wave from across the crowd. She explained: And that was it,' she said… But it wasn't. And then later on I see this girl looking at me and she's a famous actress and I was like 'I have to go tell her how much she means to me'. 'So I dance on over and she goes, 'Can you stop f***ing flirting with my fiancé?' And I was like 'Who's your fiancé?' And she points to the guy that I waved at and I still have no idea who this man is. 'Turns out, they broke their engagement off that night because of my [wave].' 'I didn't realize I held this power.'
Wall Street Journal
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘The Pretender' Review: The Boy Who Would Be King
Set at the end of the Wars of the Roses, the long dynastic struggle between the English royal houses of York and Lancaster, Jo Harkin's exuberant historical novel 'The Pretender' brings to life one of the stranger footnotes in late-medieval history. In 1487 Henry VII's right to the crown as a distant Lancastrian descendant through the female line was challenged by a boy only 10 or so years old, whom his supporters claimed to be the rightful Earl of Warwick, nephew of Richard III and a direct Plantagenet heir. The Tudor historian Polydore Vergil in his 'Anglica Historia' (1555) named this pretender Lambert Simnel, a base-born lad 'not entirely of bad character.' The episode ended in victory for Henry later that year at the Battle of Stoke Field. Vergil records that Simnel was pardoned for his role in the attempted takeover and was put to work in Henry's kitchen as a spit-turner, while the Tudors went on to rule England for the next century. The rest, you might say, is history. Or is it? Ms. Harkin takes this incident as the starting point for a rollicking story that's part fact, part lively speculation, and along the way asks some probing questions about the nature of identity. On an Oxfordshire farm, a peasant boy called John Collan is growing up with no battles to fight other than those with the farm goat, until a mysterious nobleman arrives bearing astonishing news: John isn't the farmer's son at all but Edward, the young Earl of Warwick, who as a baby was concealed among simple country folk for his own safety. Now he is to be brought out of hiding as the last Yorkist hope.
