Just because the cast of “Game of Thrones” didn’t ever ride on real, flying dragons doesn’t mean that they weren’t risking injury to film those scenes. Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow for all eight seasons of the HBO fantasy drama series, knows this better than anyone. He recounted a story about sitting on a mechanical dragon in front of a green screen that resulted in the kind of injury that will have you wincing as you hear about it.
As the mechanical dragon bucked around, one of Harington’s testicles got caught between two pieces of the machine. Ever the professional — and probably wanting to get it over with and never have to sit on that thing again — Harington braved through the pain and finished filming what needed to be filmed. While Harington doesn’t go into much detail on the extent of the injury, other than to say that his testicle was trapped, the Daily Mail described it as “very gory.”
If you watch the show again and see a moment where Jon Snow is riding a dragon, the dragon does a flip, and Jon seems to be especially terrified in that moment — that’s probably not terror you are seeing on his face, but blinding pain of the most personal kind.