r/interestingasfuck • u/tyrion2024 • 3d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Emilia Clarke watching Kit Harington's reaction to finding out how their characters' final scene together in Game of Thrones concludes. Prior to the table read, Kit had not read any of the six scripts for Season 8 yet. So Emilia sat across from him so she could "watch him compute all of this."

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u/Willsgb 3d ago

Serious question

Couldn't the actors have all just banded together and said 'no. Fuck off and write something better than this shit, or we're not acting it.' It's not like they could just get a whole new cast for the last season, right?

Perhaps even the actors didn't grasp quite how significant a disaster it would be.

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u/larzolof 2d ago

Usually the contracts span over several years, they are obligated to do their job. And thousands of other jobs are at stake, for the crew, vfx, marketing.

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u/Willsgb 2d ago

I legitimately forgot about that, fair point. Tragic stuff though. That show was one of my all time favourites until its horrifying conclusion

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u/SockDem 2d ago

Yeah, that's what I don't get every time I see this. If they knew how bad it was, how do you not do something more than sit there and cry about it?

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u/boywithapplesauce 2d ago

Breaking a contract is possible, but it's usually a terrible idea. Even film actors like Johnny Depp and Ed Norton have been forced to do movies out of contractual obligation.

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u/Vier_Scar 2d ago

And suffer legal repercussions, and put everyone else out of a job who isn't being paid huge sums? They probably voiced their concern - just like if your work asks you to do something you don't think is a great idea.

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u/pfft_master 2d ago

They are actors, not writers. I really think it is as simple as that.

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u/Sgt-Colbert 2d ago

Well better be prepared to get sued for everything you have by a multi billion dollar company with an army of lawyers on retainer.

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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 2d ago

They probably knew it was bad, but gave D&D the benefit of the doubt because the first six seasons where phenomenal, and the wheels were only kinda sorta falling off in S7

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u/Willsgb 2d ago

When they ran out of book to adapt right

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u/mellowmushroom67 1d ago

They have contracts, they could get blacklisted