--- title: Full 'Game of Thrones' Cast Reunites for Season 8 Premiere description: The entire cast of 'Game of Thrones' from season 1 to season 8 reunited on Wednesday night for the final season premiere. canonical: https://time.com/5564378/game-of-thrones-season-8-full-cast-reunion/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-04T16:01:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:30.776Z og:title: Full Game of Thrones Cast Reunites for Season 8 Premiere og:description: From the first to the last season og:url: https://time.com/5564378/game-of-thrones-season-8-full-cast-reunion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a23a1ea61d38099/698947d0b21a9cde27500642/game-of-thrones-cast-reunites-season-8-premiere.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: "Game Of Thrones" Season 8 NY Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Full Game of Thrones Cast Reunites for Season 8 Premiere twitter:description: From the first to the last season twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a23a1ea61d38099/698947d0b21a9cde27500642/game-of-thrones-cast-reunites-season-8-premiere.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Pretty Much Everyone Who's Ever Been on _Game of Thrones_ Reunited to Get People Choked Up > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO) NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 03: "Game of Thrones" cast members gather onstage during the "Game Of Thrones" Season 8 NY Premiere on April 3, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO) Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic for HBO  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 4, 2019 4:01 PM UTC Cast members from every season of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5517025/game-of-thrones-binge-watch-recaps/)gathered at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Wednesday night to celebrate the official premiere of the beloved show’s eighth and final season. While the show won’t be available to fans until it debuts on HBO on April 14, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and Sansa and Arya Stark all walked the red carpet as their human counterparts alongside many characters who were deceased, such as Sean Bean’s Eddard Stark and Jason Momoa’s Khal Drogo. Ahead of the screening of the first episode which included a special cautionary warning from Sansa and Arya Stark about the consequences of not following the rules of the event, series creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss introduced the full cast of _Game of Thrones,_ welcoming not only the stars of season 8, but many of the deceased characters who had departed the show. Watching the final premiere of a show that’s been such an integral part of pop culture was undeniably emotional, something that Emilia Clarke, who plays the inimitable Daenerys, summed up nicely to [_The Hollywood Reporter_.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-final-season-premiere-red-carpet-hits-new-york-city-1199242) “This is bonkers. I feel great, and weird, and strange.” > [](https://twitter.com/chrishgee/status/1113790460328316928) > [](https://twitter.com/kefeaster/status/1113648227532910592) > [](https://twitter.com/binge%5Fmode/status/1113580605776613381) > [](https://twitter.com/sansacstark/status/1113574322021576704) > [](https://twitter.com/katehalliwell/status/1113577646401523712) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5564378/game-of-thrones-season-8-full-cast-reunion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5564378/game-of-thrones-season-8-full-cast-reunion/"},"headline":"Pretty Much Everyone Who's Ever Been on Game of Thrones Reunited to Get People Choked Up","datePublished":"2019-04-04T16:01:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:30.776Z","description":"From the first to the last season","url":"https://time.com/5564378/game-of-thrones-season-8-full-cast-reunion/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","onetime","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a23a1ea61d38099/698947d0b21a9cde27500642/game-of-thrones-cast-reunites-season-8-premiere.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a23a1ea61d38099/698947d0b21a9cde27500642/game-of-thrones-cast-reunites-season-8-premiere.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Game Of Thrones\" Season 8 NY Premiere","caption":"\"Game Of Thrones\" Season 8 NY Premiere","creditText":"Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic for HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5564378/game-of-thrones-season-8-full-cast-reunion/","name":"Pretty Much Everyone Who's Ever Been on Game of Thrones Reunited to Get People Choked Up"}}]}] ```