Harington, Dinklage Reunite 7 Years After Game of Thrones
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- Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage reunited for the first time in seven years — since Game of Thrones ended in 2019 — for Variety and CNN's Actors on Actors series, where they openly discussed nude scenes, sobriety, and life after Westeros.
- Harington, now 39 and a series regular on HBO's "Industry," revealed he entered rehab as the first episode of Thrones' eighth and final season was airing in 2019, spent six weeks there to get sober, then took a year off work — and never actually watched the final season.
- Harington said he worked "from a place of pain" during Thrones and used the post-show period, followed by COVID, to figure out "who I was" and whether he wanted to keep acting.
- Dinklage, 56, who recently guest starred in FX's "The Lowdown," said that even after four Emmys and the global success of Tyrion, he kept being offered fantasy roles with characters who "are not really fully realized human beings," adding: "I thought we were out to change things."
- Dinklage disclosed that his 8-year-old son recently watched Thrones for the first time, and that he joined a new "Alien" show premiering this fall partly because it's his son's favorite — though his son told him, "Don't fuck up my favorite show, Dad."
- Harington noted he is now the exact age Dinklage was when they first met on set in Belfast, and both discussed the inversion of parenting — Harington, married to Thrones costar Rose Leslie, joked about his kids eventually watching his on-screen nudity.
Why it matters: The interview surfaces two candid disclosures Harington and Dinklage haven't centered publicly: Harington's rehab decision during the final-season rollout and his admission he never watched it, and Dinklage's frustration that typecasting persisted even after four Emmys. For two actors whose careers were defined together, their very different post-Thrones trajectories — Harington rebuilding on HBO's Industry, Dinklage pursuing indie films and a new Alien show — illustrate how a career-making role can both launch and constrain.
