Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke Revealed Amongst Highest-Paid ‘Game Of Thrones’ Cast Members

Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke have been revealed to be amongst the highest-paid cast members in HBO’s hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones.

Both Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke each receive a total of $500,000 per episode, as do Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who make up the Lannister family on the series. Meanwhile, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams who play sisters Arya and Sansa Stark reportedly make a considerably lower amount, earning just $175,000 per episode.

Sophie Turner told Harper’s Bazaar, that she’s okay with the large pay-gap between her and her co-stars, including Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke, explaining that equal pay is “a little tricky” on Game of Thrones:

“Kit got more money than me, but he had a bigger storyline. And for the last series, he had something crazy like 70-night shoots, and I didn’t have that many. I was like, ‘You know what … you keep that money.'”

HBO premiered the first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones last Sunday and is set to continue the series’ conclusion tonight.

David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill have written the final six episodes which have been directed by David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik, with Benioff and Weiss helming the series finale. Benioff and Weiss returned to executive produce the final season alongside Carolyn Strauss, Frank Doelger and Bernadette Caulfield, with Bryan Cogman, Guymon Casady, Vince Gerardis and George R.R. Martin serving as co-executive producers.

While the series is coming to an end, Game of Thrones will be followed by a prequel spin-off which is expected to premiere as early as 2020 and stars Naomi Watts and Josh Whitehouse (Poldark). Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Shella Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp, and Toby Regbo. S.J. Clarkson will direct the series pilot.

Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington as Jon Snow, Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister, Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister, Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth, Carice van Houten as Melisandre, Rory McCann as Sandor “The Hound” Clegane, Maisie Williams as Arya Stark, Conleth Hill as Varys, Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy, John Bradley as Samwell Tarly, Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth, Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane, Isaac Hempstead Wright as Bran Stark, Jerome Flynn as Bronn, Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont, and Hannah Murray as Gilly.

Here is the synopsis for HBO’s Game of Thrones:

George R.R. Martin’s best-selling book series “A Song of Ice and Fire” depicts two powerful families — kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and honest men — all playing a deadly game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, and to sit atop the Iron Throne. Winter is coming.

Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on the final season of Game of Thrones as we learn it.

Source: Cosmopolitan, Business Insider