An Injury May Have Scored Kit Harington His Role in Game of Thrones

Apparently the key to success is to ruffle a few feathers the night before your audition.

We're not professional actors but we're pretty sure what Kit Harington did the night before his audition is not a conventional way to prepare...

Before his big GOT audition, he took a girl to McDonald's.

And in an interview with W magazine, he said he rocked up to his audition in an ‘unplanned’ state…

“I had a black eye,. I’d been in a fight the night before...I'd went into McDonald's with this girl I had been dating, and it was late night and there was no seats. I asked this guy and this girl that he was with if we could sit at the same table as them. We sat down, and quite quickly he started being rude to the girl I was with, calling her names…He called her an ugly pig or something worse, and I said, 'No you can't, you can't call her that. Get up.’”

But unfortunately for Harington, the man ended up being larger than expected… 

“He'd been sat down the entire time so when he got up he just kept going. I realised I had to, at that point, I had to throw the first punch or else I'd look like a complete wimp. And I got batted. So I went to the Jon Snow audition with a black eye, which I think that man who punched me in the face may have helped me get the job, so thank you!”

So suppose that proves the whole silver lining theory, right?