Game Of Thrones: What We Learned From The Last Watch Documentary
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Obviously, not all of Season 8's dead were actually extras. But some of them weren't even dummies, as this pile reveals.
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Even Mountains need wardrobe fittings.
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On the production lot, spare parts...
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... and dead Starks.
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Clarke wore a cap like this underneath Dany's blonde wig, we learn, to hide her dark roots (which was more of a problem in earlier seasons, when the actress' own hair color was darker).
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There's our girl.
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The first shot of Season 8, shown here in rehearsal, was the scene were Daenerys and Jorah told Sam that she'd flambeéd his father and brother.
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A Christmas tree in the production department had some fun with Thrones-inspired ornaments.
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(I slipped this one in just 'cause.)
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"I think he is angry," Vladimir Furdik said of his evil alter ego. "He doesn't want to be Night King."
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What's even more awkward than Daenerys' dragons giving Jon the stinkeye while he kisses their mom? David Nutter, who directed the episode, growling at Kit Harington as a stand-in for the perturbed beast during filming.
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Ser Jorah actually died on a table. Who knew?
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(At least it saved Clarke's back a little bit?)
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Season 8 went by the code name Faith of Angels, which has nothing to do with this shot of Furdik and Isaac Hempstead Wright waiting to shoot in the godswood, but I wanted to fit it in somewhere.
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The Night King's death required a whole lotta takes to shoot.
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Sophie Turner, Tobias Menzies, Gwendoline Christie and others spent a few minutes hanging out at the dragonpit — aka Italica, outside of Seville, Spain.
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The show brought Faye Marsay, who played The Waif, and Tom Wlaschiha, who played Jaqen H'gar, to the set in Spain just to throw off snooping fans/paparazzi. Baller.
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Spanish Thrones fans called Harington "Keeeet!," he said during a ride back to his hotel...
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... and we heard it ourselves as his car was thronged at the front entrance. (Apparently, the cast and crew starting calling him "Keeeet!," as well.)
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The exact moment Kit Harington learned that Jon kills Daenerys in the series finale.
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And Emilia Clarke's reaction to her co-star's strife.
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Turner needed a moment to pull herself together after filming the scene where Sansa says goodbye to Theon just before the mass funeral outside Winterfell.
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Harington's final scene of the series was the one where Grey Worm killed the Lannister soldiers and Jon tried to stop him. "I love this show more than anything. It has never been a job for me," he told the assembled cast, crew and extras afterward, failing to hold back tears. "It has been my life. This will always be the greatest thing I"ll ever do."