--- title: Rose Leslie Won't Let Kit Harington Spoil Game of Thrones description: Although it seems like Kit Harington's fiancée would have the inside track on Game of Thrones, Rose Leslie has no interest in spoiling the show. canonical: https://time.com/5197595/rose-leslie-kit-harington-game-of-thrones-scripts/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-13T16:42:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:22.246Z og:title: The One Way Game of Thrones Fans Can Relate to Rose Leslie og:description: She has a good reason for not letting Kit Harington read season 8 scripts by her og:url: https://time.com/5197595/rose-leslie-kit-harington-game-of-thrones-scripts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt148056cfa9902c17/69892aa3e76ad20c2e6315a1/screen-shot-2018-03-13-at-11-55-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1143&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1143 og:image:height: 643 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2018-03-13 at 11.55.13 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The One Way Game of Thrones Fans Can Relate to Rose Leslie twitter:description: She has a good reason for not letting Kit Harington read season 8 scripts by her twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt148056cfa9902c17/69892aa3e76ad20c2e6315a1/screen-shot-2018-03-13-at-11-55-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1143&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The One Way You Can Definitely Relate to Real-Life _Game of Thrones_ Couple Rose Leslie and Kit Harington > Sponsored content. 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During an appearance on Monday’s episode of _Late Night_ to promote her role on _The Good Fight_, the 31-year-old actor revealed that she wouldn’t let Harington—who plays King in the North Jon Snow—read the season eight scripts in front of her for fear of gleaning any secret information from his face. “With _Game of Thrones_, I’m like the rest of the world. I’m waiting for the new and final season,” Leslie told host Seth Meyers. “I remember kind of like over the summer, summer just gone, obviously, the new episodes for the final season were coming through onto his iPad. And I mean, I can read his facial expressions. I didn’t want to know anything that’s going on like, within his eyes or anything like that. So, I sent him packing. 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