Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, has described filming sequences featuring the show’s iconic dragons as “horrific.”

The actor said he had his fair share of dragon rides in the last season of the recently concluded HBO drama.

Harington revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he wasn’t prepared for the high demand for the dragon sequences.

Kit highlighted how filming the claustrophobic and incredibly muddy ‘Battle of the Bastards’ episode was even easier than riding the mechanical buck used to capture dragon sequences.

“I was on the back of that buck [the rig used for filming the dragon-riding scenes] for longer than we filmed the entire Battle of the B*******,” the Game of Thrones star told the newspaper.

“Emilia [Clarke, who played Daenerys] had been moaning about it for seasons, and I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. You have not been through the mud in Northern Ireland. A buck in a nice warm room?’,”he told The Hollywood Reporter, referring to the gear they used to film the dragon-riding shots.

“But she was absolutely right. It was horrific. It’s not acting at all. It is not acting, it never will be acting, and it is not what I’d signed up for. It is very uncomfortable as a man.”

“Not recommended, no. I don’t think I can have children now.”

“I loved The Long Night. I loved working with [Miguel Sapochnik], one of my favourite directors I have ever worked with.

“As tough as it was, it was Thrones, man. It was Thrones! It was everything Thrones should have been.

“It’s a full set built, hundreds of extras throwing everything they had into it, all of us as a big ensemble cast — I loved it.

“I hated it at the time, but I love it, looking back on it. I have some really fond memories of that whole experience.”

Harington, who also played a character in the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy, went on to say that he “hated” filming the final season’s huge combat episode, but that he now sees it differently.

“As tough as it was, it was Thrones, man. It was Thrones! It was everything Thrones should have been,” remarked the 32-year-old. “It’s a full set built, hundreds of extras throwing everything they had into it, all of us as a big ensemble cast – I loved it.”

Kit’s remarks follow Game of Thrones author George RR Martin’s recent declaration that the show’s end was “freeing” for him.

Author George RR Martin confessed in a new interview that the series kept him from finishing his final two books.