Kit Harington and Sophie Turner’s Game of Thrones Reunion Kiss Ignites Buzz for The Dreadful

Jon Snow and Sansa Stark are finally getting a love story. Yes, that sentence sounds wrong. But Sophie Turner and Kit Harington have reunited for a Gothic horror movie called 'The Dreadful' — and this time, they are playing lovers. If your brain just short-circuited, you are not alone. The actors had the same reaction.

The reunion... and the ick

Harington told E! News that kissing Turner felt, in his words, weird. The funny part: Turner is the one who sent him the script in the first place. He says he had to point out the obvious to her — the characters are romantically involved — and he felt pretty odd about it. Still, it was a chance to work together again, and once they hit set, the old rhythm came back fast. Harington says their friendship basically reignited and felt like being with family.

Turner, for her part, did not sugarcoat it on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers'.

'We were both retching after the kiss. Like, really, it is vile. It was the worst.'

And because the universe loves slapstick, Harington says their height gap made things even more ridiculous. Turner is 5 feet 9 inches. Harington is listed as 5'7" or 5'8", depending on the source. He joked to E! that he had to hop on an apple box for every kiss and that she was 'about a foot taller' than him. Hyperbole, sure, but the image is A+.

So what is 'The Dreadful'?

This one comes from director Natasha Kermani and takes place during the Wars of the Roses — the real-life conflict that helped inspire George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'. Nice, neat circle back to their HBO roots. Turner plays Anne, scraping by in a brutal life with her mother-in-law, Morwen. Harington is 'a man from their past' who returns and stirs everything up, according to the logline reported by Deadline.

• Director: Natasha Kermani, who previously made the SXSW horror 'Lucky', the thriller 'Shattered', and a segment in 'V/H/S/85'
• Producing partners: Redwire Pictures, Storyboard Media, and Black Magic Banner
• Producers: Sophie Turner, Luke Daniels, Patrick Muldoon, Patrick Hibler, Lucas Jarach, and Greg Lauritano
• Distribution: True Brit Entertainment is reportedly handling the film in the U.K.
• Fun detail: Turner sent the script to Harington, setting the whole reunion in motion

Where they have been since Winterfell

Both Turner and Harington have worked steadily post-'Thrones', even if neither has landed a mega-hit series or movie on that scale. Turner popped up with a chaotic (and very fun) cameo in 'Do Revenge' as Erica Norman and headlined 'The Staircase' and 'Joan'. She has also leveled up behind the camera as a producer on 'The Dreadful'.

Harington has been bouncing between TV and indie films: he appeared in Apple TV+'s 'Extrapolations', the features 'Blood for Dust' and 'Baby Ruby', and recently turned up in HBO's 'Industry'.

The bottom line

Turner and Harington reuniting is already a hook. Making them kiss after eight seasons of playing Stark siblings? That is the hook and the weird twist. Fortunately for them (and probably for us), the awkwardness seems to have worn off once the cameras rolled. Now we just wait to see how nasty this Gothic nightmare gets when 'The Dreadful' arrives in the U.K. via True Brit Entertainment — and where else it lands after that.