Kit Harington’s Jon Snow is known for his huge Valyrian steel sword and thick black cape, but behind all that macho attire, he’s been wearing high heels.

Kit Harington acknowledged in a recent interview for the May edition of Esquire that while he’s long grumbled about the enormously heavy and stinking outfit he had to wear while portraying Jon Snow on “Game of Thrones,” it was the high heels that killed him.

“My costume weighed 33 pounds, and you’d carry all of that on your shoulders all day,” Harington told Esquire’s Bruce Handy. He said, “So 33 pounds for ten hours. Plus, I was in fucking high heels, because I’m short and they need me to look taller than other people, so I’m carrying fifty pounds in high heels.”

Sure, that seems like a type of cruel and unusual punishment — but, as the actor pointed out, “you didn’t need to go to the gym.”

Since the first season of Game of Thrones, people have been questioning Kit Harington’s height: Many people believe he’s shorter than Sophie Turner (who is supposedly 5’9′′) and Gwendoline Christie (6’3′′) because of images of the actor next to them.

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Harington noted that Sophie Turner and Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who play Stark siblings Sansa and Bran, respectively, were children when the show began filming and have since outgrown him in terms of height. Turner, in particular, toys with Harington in the same manner he messed with her previously. “Sophie and Isaac grew past me! Each year, they’d come back and they’d just be taller,” he said. “I’d go from looking down at them to looking up at them. Now they pat me on the head. I used to pat them on the head, ruffle their hair. Now Sophie ruffles my hair.”

Kit also stated that he was afraid he might DIE after getting “swung around by his testicle” while filming a dramatic dragon sequence.

Kit told HBO’s Game Revealed about how he got trapped on a mechanical dragon: “Buck work is not easy. I think what sums up the buck for me was there was a bit where Jon almost falls off.

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“The dragon swings around really violently, like this, and my right ball got trapped, and I didn’t have time to say “Stop!” And I was being swung around.

“In my head, I thought, ‘This is how it ends, on this buck, swinging me around by testicles, literally’.”

The full “Battle of the Bastards,” took two weeks to film, according to Harington. He was quick to point out the benefits of the routine, despite how difficult it was. “You’d have about a week or two where your body went into shock, going, I can’t, I’m knackered,” he explained. “But you just kind of get into it and your muscles build up, and it was actually quite a good workout every day. You didn’t need to go to the gym.”