Let me give you some advice,
bastard.
Never forget what you are.
Wear it like armor.
It can never be used
to hurt you.
When I first heard they were
interested in me
for a fantasy show, I went,
"Ugh. No."
I had an inkling, reading
the first book,
going, "Oh, my God, this is...
this is amazing. This...
this could really kick off."
MAISIE WILLIAMS: I was
 quite young
 and I had such
 a big imagination.
 In those scenes when I was
 younger,
I would really convince myself
that I was there
and it was happening, you know.
I'd never had any experience
of acting before.
I went to a very theatrically
based drama school.
 We did three hours of camera
 training in three years,
but then my fourth hour
in front of a camera
was day one on Game of Thrones.
KIT HARRINGTON: My first day
 on set was Castle Black.
My first scene was, I think,
just a very quick scene
where I'm walking
down the ramparts
 and I was so nervous.
EMILIA CLARKE: Yeah, I remember
 my first day on set!
Oh, my God, I fell
off a fucking horse! (LAUGHS)
 Jesus, this was my first job.
This is, like, the first thing
I ever did
and then they stuck me
on a horse!
Oh...
I was falling off the horse,
trying to act, still.
-Oh... A Khaleesi... (LAUGHS)
-DIRECTOR: Okay, let's do it
again, please.
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU: Well,
 I remember my first scene
we shot from the pilot. And that
was, uh, the king's... arrival.
 You know, the king rides in
 on horseback
and he has to get off his horse.
And his robe was enormous.
And the horse rides in;
he's like... (GRUNTS)
And then, "Halt... everyone."
And then they run in with...
 like, like a ladder.
They help him down and they run
 out with the ladder and then:
 "Carry on.  (GRUNTS)"
SOPHIE TURNER: I vaguely
 remember it. It was, like,
 Sean Bean and Mark Addy
 and Lena
and I remember being
so overwhelmed and...
 terrified.
LENA HEADEY: I remember
 everybody clear.
 I remember baby Sophie,
and baby Maisie, and baby Isaac.
And now, they're... you know,
out there, full-grown.
(CROWD JEERING)
The most shocking scene...
that I didn't see coming...
(SCREAMING) Stop him! Stop!
From then on, I started
to distrust the show
as to, like, whether they'd kill
my favorite character or not.
I think the most shocking was
probably...
-(STABBING)
-(GRUNTS)
 ...my death.
The Hodor moment I couldn't
quite believe.
MEERA REED: Hold the door!
 Hold the door!
ISAAC HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT: That was
 such a sort of, "Oh, my God!"
RORY MCCANN: I watched
 the Red Wedding
and I didn't really read into it
 in the script...
 of what happened.
 I think I just...
did my bit and went,
"La, la, la."
And then, when it came out,
I remember I watched it
in the morning.
I'm a big guy, a big, tough guy,
but, guess what,
I burst into tears. That was
an absolute shocker.
I remember just watching, going,
"No, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no! What!"
(CHUCKLING) It was brilliant!
Do I have to call you
Lady Stark now?
Yes.
My favorite day on set
would be the day that I was
reunited with Maisie.
WILLIAMS: That day on set, I...
 I've never laughed so much
 in my life.
 It was so much fun.
It was the day
with the wheelchair--
I've still got that video. Jeez.
 Me and Sophie just messing
 around on, um,
(CHUCKLING) Bran's wheelchair.
COSTER-WALDAU: I think the most
 fun scene we shot was...
 Season seven,
 we shot this big sequence:
 the loot train attack.
And we shot that in Spain.
 It was such a beautiful...
 location.
 And there was something about
 being outside every day
 and being on horseback;
 I love riding.
(SPEAKING VALYRIAN)
Season Three,
getting the Unsullied,
was the first time that I,
Emilia, got to be, you know,
like, bitchin' badass. (LAUGHS)
(SPEAKING VALYRIAN)
(DRAGON SQUEALING)
Dracarys.
-(GASPS, SCREAMING)
-CLARKE: Uh,
 it was really cool. (LAUGHS)
Favorite day on set
was definitely
 a day in Osuna when we were
doing the gladiatorial sequence.
 My little girl was there.
You know,
she watched her papa work.
David, uh, said, you know,
"Come and sit here.
You can call it."
And she was like...
(HIGH-PITCHED VOICE) "Action!"
The fight between
The Hound and...
Brienne of fucking Tarth.
We'd studied
and trained for that
 a long time,
 and it all came to fruition.
 That was just fantastic.
HARRINGTON: Iceland, Season Two,
 the first day we were there.
That was my favorite day
on Thrones.
 I'd never been
 to a more beautiful place
 in my life,
 and it was special
 for so many reasons.
(PANTING)
 It was the scene where I was
 not able to behead Ygritte.
Strike hard and true, Jon Snow.
(SWORD CLANKS)
HARRINGTON: My favorite actor
 to work with was Rose Leslie.
There was something
really special about
working with Rose.
I really, really enjoy
working with John Bradley.
You saw this in-- in a vision.
HEADEY: I really enjoyed
 the scene with Mark Addy
 way back in Season One,
just because
it was so intense
and there-- It was, like,
pages and pages long
and it was really unexpected
from those two characters.
Sometimes I don't know what
holds it together.
Our marriage.
(BOTH LAUGH)
There's an ease that I get with
acting with Iain Glen
'cause he's been my pal
the whole time,
has been my one-- My buddy!
(LAUGHS)
IAIN GLEN: And the most
beautiful thing about Emilia,
she has no idea how good she is.
She genuinely has no idea.
 And she still has no idea.
-(INDISTINCT CHANTING)
 -She's always, sort of,
 vulnerable,
which gives--
It's part of her--
Part of a great gift.
JOHN BRADLEY: I think in terms
 of my favorite scene partner,
 it would have to be Kit.
 Kit was the first person
 I ever had
 an acting relationship with
 because it was my first job.
 I think that the friendships
 that you form when you are
 a bit scared
 and a bit uncertain,
and treading unfamiliar ground,
they're the ones
that tend to stick,
because you cling on to
each other for support.
Sansa, come here, little dove.
I always loved working
with Lena.
What are you doing?
Praying.
You're perfect, aren't you?
Praying...
Just watching her
and learning from her
was the best drama lesson
I could have ever hoped for.
I disobeyed my king,
your father, and now I'm
paying the price.
I don't care, you're my friend.
LIAM CUNNINGHAM:
 Shireen Baratheon.
 I had a couple of scenes
with Shireen that I loved doing.
To have her level of humanity...
uh, and decency, and cleverness,
and brightness.
He just treats her as an equal,
 and I really liked that aspect
 of the relationship
 that they had.
I really miss Charles Dance,
who played my father,
Tywin Lannister.
We had such a great chemistry
and a great friendship...
Tyrion.
 ...despite our
 on-screen relationship.
(ARROW LOOSES)
I'm very fortunate to work with
 the greatest cast.
Everybody is so professional,
and so incredibly kind
and generous
to their fellow actors.
Everyone involved is-- is--
like a family,
and it's a family that,
amazingly, still laughs
 and gets on with each other
 eight, nine years in.
There's been no assholes.
No people... divas.
There's been no... nothing.
Not even a suggestion.
WILLIAMS:
 When it's all said and done,
 I'll miss
 the dynamic of the show
'cause there's nothing
like this show.
I mean, Game of Thrones
means my twenties.
I started this job
when I was 22.
And I am not 22 anymore.
 Game of Thrones
is my entire career.
 I think I am gonna have
 a hard time
 saying goodbye to Sam.
It's gonna be very hard
to say goodbye
to playing Tyrion.
I will miss simple things.
Like walking onto set
for the first time each year
in your new bits of costume
 and just knowing you're part
 of something which is...
sort of
at the centre of attention.
Yeah, it's gonna be very strange
without it,
it's been eight years.
I'll tell you what I won't miss:
walking around
with half a fucking beard
three quarters of the year.
ARYA STARK:
That's Jaime Lannister,
the queen's twin brother.
COSTER-WALDAU:
 I was like a little puppy
 when I arrived.
I was like Bambi on the ice.
And coming to Belfast just...
I learned just how to walk
with pride and joy.
TURNER:
I've grown up with these people,
I've changed so much as a person
because of these people.
I'm so confident.
I've just got this confidence
 from the show
 and from playing Arya.
I really feel like I just wanna
inject that
into each and every person
that I know and love,
but then also any girl
that admires the work that I do.
CLARKE:
 The journey that I've been on
 with Danaerys,
it's sharpened me as an actor,
it's shown me the range
that I can--
That I can do, and...
 because of the heights
 that she goes to,
it's forced me to find them
within myself.
HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT:
Game of Thrones has been such
 an education for me
 in everything.
Having to be around adults
from the age of ten
and work on a professional set,
 get up and learn your lines,
and really think
about a character
 has also taught me
 a lot about myself.
HEADEY: As an actor,
 you work, and work, and work
 and you audition
 and you don't get parts,
 and you do get parts
and sometimes
they're great experiences,
and sometimes
they're really shitty, um,
and this has been incredible.
 Thrones  is the holy grail,
where it's something that is
enormously, globally,
massively popular
 and people think it's cool.
HARRINGTON: People are always
 trying to copy things,
 or do variations of things.
 It's rare get something
which is a completely
original fantasy.
It's the most realistic show
that I've ever done,
that also happens to have
dragons and dead people
walking around in it.
I think a lot of fantasy
is heavy on the dragon
and light on the character.
We're the opposite.
This show will be discovered
by generations to come.
It's timeless.
Every season,
there's something else bigger
than the last season
and better than the last season.
And here we are, season eight.
It's cinematic. We're making
ten-hour movies every year.
That fact that this is really
a full stop, um,
on this story is sad because...
 I think everyone's
 been so invested in this story
 that we never want to see
 this come to a close.
 But it must.
 And it will be good.
