Game of Thrones star details 'humiliating' moment on set with The Last of Us' Bella Ramsey

Kit Harington admitted he was "humiliated" by Bella Ramsey during a ' scene, which made him realise he needed to "up [his] game". The 38-year-old actor, who played Jon Snow in the show, confessed that his then-11-year-old co-star - known for their role as Lady Lyanna Mormont - had to prompt him when he forgot a line.

Speaking to Interview magazine, Bella recalled: "I don't know whether you remember this, but I remember it quite vividly and have some remorse for it now, but during that scene I was mouthing your lines to you."

They added: "Now I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, how awful.' But at the time it came from a very innocent place of being like, 'Kit's struggling with his line and I know it, so let me just mouth it to him.'"

Kit responded with a laugh: "I do remember you helping me out and it being quite humiliating. Bet yeah, thanks for that. I've probably chosen to forget it."

After Bella suggested their behaviour might have been "annoying", Kit replied: "It wasn't at all. If anything I was like, 'Oh god, I've got to up my game.' I came here not really being comfortable enough with my lines, in the arrogance of however old I was, thinking I'm just opposite some child. And then that child actor is wiping me off the screen."

He concluded: "Not that it's a competition, but you're like, 'Oh, I've got a bit too comfortable in my Jon Snow-ness.'"

Kit reminisced about Bella, who is non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns, recalling their remarkable "confidence and clarity" on set despite their youth.

He shared: "I remember meeting you-it was the first thing you did where we had to come and address you, asking for soldiers.

"I'm going to blow a bit of smoke here, so I'm sorry, but there was a real feeling of you being a different entity of child actor. We were like, 'Oh, they're good'.

"You brought a confidence and clarity that was quite unusual for a young actor. It didn't feel like working with a child. It felt like working with a very experienced actor."

Bella reflected: "I remember not feeling like a child, but now I see 11 year olds and realise how tiny they are, so it's weird to me that I was that size and that young, because I didn't feel that tiny."

Despite stepping into the colossal world of Game of Thrones, sensation wasn't "nervous at all" during their HBO series debut.

They remarked: "It was my first job ever, so I had no reference point for what it would be like. I weirdly wasn't nervous at all, because I never knew that I wanted to be an actor, so I didn't have a bunch of expectations. I was coming into it very much blind."

Now, Bella is leading the cast of HBO's The Last of Us alongside fellow Game of Thrones star Pedro Pascal.

The Last of Us season 2 airs on HBO in the USA on Sundays and on Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK on Mondays. Game of Thrones is available to stream on HBO Max in the USA and Sky & NOW in the UK.