Game of Thrones étoile, star teases tonight's 'Hardhome' battle scene 

battles in previous years, this sequence arrives almost entirely without any build up. Last year’s war for Castle Black and the second season’s Battle of the Blackwater were clashes that characters saw coming well in advance. Without giving away any details about what happens during tonight’s eighth episode, Sunday’s “Hardhome” has a sequence that will rank among the show’s most spectcular moments. 

“It was 3-to-4 weeks of shooting for a sequence that should add up to [more than] 20 minutes,” said star Kit Harington. “We shot less than a minute a day! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever done on

The set-up: Snow and Tormund (Kristofer Hivju) arrive at the remote seaside outpost of Hardhome as Snow hopes to unite the Wildlings and the Night’s Watch to defend the realm from the White Walker threat. There they meet a Wildling chiefton named Karsi (Danish

actress Birgitte Hjort Sørensen) as they try to convince the remaining tribes to return with them to relative safety of Castle Black. 

“I think [HBO] has realized that to keep people engaged with this show that the big set pieces each year have to be bigger than the ones before,” Harington said. “[The Battle of Castle Black in] episode 9 last year was the hardest thing I’ve done. This was 

Feel sufficiently teased? We’ll fill out this post with more behind-the-scenes details about the Hardhome sequence after the episode airs, plus we’ll have our usual deep-dive recap and an interview with George R.R. Martin tonight. 

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