Name: Game of Thrones | Season 8 Episode 1 | Game Revealed (HBO)
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This is the last time we're ever going to be doing this.

The first episodes of every season are always a challenge, but for the final season, it was a lot of pressure because we had all these characters convening at Winterfell.

We thought that the arrival was a way to capture what was at stake for Dany and for Jon, for

Arya on the ground and for Tyrion and Varys and Grey Worm and Missendei on horseback.

Everybody has a slightly different take on what's happening here.

David Nutter directed half the season for us, and there's no more beloved director in the business.

Usually, a director on Game of Thrones will shoot for three days and he has two days prep and then he maybe shoots for a full week, but Nutter just had to go all out for eight or nine weeks of shooting.

I was so happy that he was back for the final season.

David Nutter really felt like part of the family.

We shot a lot of the parade stuff at the end of the year where we had kind of the two shortest days of the year.

Then we came back and it kind of brought some scope to it.

Winterstown is a settlement just outside of Winterfell, and so that road was snowed.

We built the little buildings that led up the road.

It was completely redressed to be the Winterfell little town.

The ADs sort out background, villages, reactions, so you're actually working with the extras in a way so you're getting a performance out of everybody.

We work with the military advisers, so all of these guys look professional marching step.

When we tell them to do something, they do it.

We teach them some very basic drill movements so they know how to stand.

Everything's under a command, a whistle blast, so they get to learn to react in a military style in a disciplined style.

Anything that's on the page, we tend to show rather than just imply.

If you're going to say you want to see thousands of Unsullied, then we have to show it.

It's a significant, big scope moment, so the challenge was definitely to find ways to really make it seem like thousands are arriving.

You have to have a vantage point from higher up.

When I read the opening sequence and I saw this little boy running to try to see the parade and see the show and see what he's missing, I felt like that little boy, because

So in some respects, I kind of was that little boy.

Daenerys arrives and immediately, Sansa wants to make it very clear that she runs this shit.

I think Jon knows Sansa well enough now that when it comes to Dany, he knows she's going to have some difficulty.

Jon is in love with her, has bent the knee.

I basically sat down with Sophie and told her, you have to remember one thing.

Thank you for inviting us into your home, Lady Stark.

The North is as beautiful as your brother claimed.

And you're met with a stony, stoic silence.

There were a lot of people on set, kind of like a giant game of where's Waldo.

In the first episode, a couple of our friends from the comedy world were in a scene.

When we found out that George Lucas wanted to visit, we thought maybe it was a practical joke.

And then we were really excited and also nervous because it's George Lucas.

If it makes you feel any better, she didn't like me either when we were growing up.

For George to be sitting in my director's chair, that was so cool for me.

I had George Wilde speak to Kit and Emilia.

I mean, like, the first time, like, I could remember telling stories was me as a little kid mashing together these, like, Stormtrooper dolls.

For so many of us, he's the one who started our obsession with this kind of big, epic storytelling.

And of course, Dan puts a fever through the writer Dave Hill's head.

I very much learned the lesson that sometimes when you write two words, that you then create so much work for everyone involved.

Next thing I know, I'm flying to London to go out to have my face sculpted, be wrapped in plaster and molded.

The day of, I'm in a chair for four and a half hours.

It was great to see that we were basically going to get to take Dave Hill out, one of our writers.

It's actually going to get to take Dave Hill out, one of our writers.

It's quite nice to be able to kill fellow crew members off in the nicest kind of way.

Having to go and be the one who gives the performance is so much more difficult than

And I was just trying desperately not to screw it up.

The godswood tree, such an iconic piece of the show.

To create that godswood tree is a huge amount of effort.

Every year it would have to be painted white.

The greens team would go about adding branches to it with flocked red leaves that Kevin Fraser would paint up for us.

It's a process where you take a flock, which is a fibre, and actually adhere it to the leaf on one surface.

So obviously you got some quite interesting dynamics when things were lit and shot.

When I first got the scripts, it was like a bunch of lords and ladies talking.

And I was thinking, are we ever going to get a scene together again?

And then finally got to that scene, and I was just beaming.

The really spooky thing was turning around and seeing her for the first time.

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