‘We had a giant hug’: Kit Harington reunites with Game of Thrones co-star Richard Madden in Marvel’s Eternals

Two British actors performed half-brothers on the HBO present. While Madden essayed the true son of Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, Robb Stark, Harrington performed Jon Snow, who was launched as Eddard’s bastard son with one other girl. Later, he’s revealed as Aegon Targaryen, the son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, and Lyanna Stark, the sister of Eddard.

Speaking to Variety, Harington spoke about reuniting with Madden. Harrington, who performs Dane Whitman within the movie directed by Chloe Zhao. He mentioned, “We had a big hug. We’ve been close friends for a long time. We had a shared experience of “Game of Thrones” in the first three seasons — the three seasons that Richard was in — where it kind of blew up and got a lot of fun,” he mentioned. It grew to become Goliath of the present. And, you realize, we have been each 23. We form of got here collectively and it makes for a reasonably particular bond. So truly, now we have a really shut friendship, however display time this doesn’t signify.”

Harington and Madden did not get an opportunity to share a lot display time in GoT as their character’s journey turned in reverse instructions and Rob died earlier than their reunion.

Meanwhile, Emilia Clarke, who performed Daenerys Targaryen in GoT, is technically nonetheless within the MCU. He is a part of the solid of the upcoming Disney Plus sequence Secret Assault.

Eternal additionally stars Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie.

So far, the movie has acquired blended vital opinions. At the time of writing, the movie has a rating of 61 p.c on evaluation aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the bottom for any MCU movie. The vital consensus reads, “An ambitious superhero epic that climbs a bit more often than tension, Eternals takes the MCU in intriguing — and sometimes confusing — new directions.”