--- title: Kit Harington and Sophie Turner Hug It Out at Emmys 2019 description: Former Game of Thrones costars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner — aka Jon Snow and Sansa Stark — shared an emotional hug at the 2019 Emmys. canonical: https://time.com/5683955/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sophie-turner-hug/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-23T14:50:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:23.105Z og:title: Game of Thrones Stars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner Hug It Out at Emmys og:description: The Stark bond is still going strong og:url: https://time.com/5683955/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sophie-turner-hug/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b32c4e17290a4c/698a035597cdff0f976b994b/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sopnie-turner-hug.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: Emmys-2019-Kit-Harington-Sopnie-Turner-Hug og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones Stars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner Hug It Out at Emmys twitter:description: The Stark bond is still going strong twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b32c4e17290a4c/698a035597cdff0f976b994b/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sopnie-turner-hug.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Stars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner Hugging It Out at the 2019 Emmys Proves the Stark Bond Is Forever > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 23, 2019 2:50 PM UTC  Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones season 6, episode 4 Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones season 6, episode 4 Helen Sloan—HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 23, 2019 2:50 PM UTC The [_Game of Thrones_ finale](https://time.com/5591754/game-of-thrones-series-finale-review/) saw Sansa Stark and [Jon Snow](https://time.com/5589654/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-azor-ahai-prophecy/) share an emotional farewell hug before Jon left King’s Landing for the Wall to live out the rest of his life in exile. The half-siblings (er, cousins) seemed all-but-sure they would never see each other again, a truth that made their goodbye all the more heartbreaking. Luckily, in real life, there’s nothing keeping Sophie Turner and Kit Harington from seeing each other on a semi-regular basis and gifting _Game of Thrones_ fans with touching reunion footage. And that’s exactly what the former costars did at the [71st Primetime Emmy Awards](https://time.com/5679124/emmys-2019-winners/). Ahead of _Game of Thrones_‘ win for Best Drama Series at Sunday night’s awards ceremony, Turner and Harington were spotted sharing a hug — which was reminiscent of both [Jon and Sansa’s finale hug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQoMH6-TKVQ) and their [tearjerking reunion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMv73Oyvl4&t=1m7s) at the Wall in season 6 — and some words of support with each other. “You look so handsome,” Turner can be heard exclaiming in a video of the moment that was posted to Twitter by _Hollywood Reporter_ columnist Scott Feinberg. > [](https://twitter.com/ScottFeinberg/status/1175925781966405632) You can’t help but love that the Stark bond is obviously still going strong. See some reactions to Turner and Harington’s reunion below. > [](https://twitter.com/Lara%5F%5F%5FBrasil/status/1175929014407573504) > [](https://twitter.com/weirwoodthrone/status/1175934512426967040) > [](https://twitter.com/ShinlayShin/status/1175949929862377475) > [](https://twitter.com/iKnowUkno/status/1176052985794846720) > [](https://twitter.com/clkrmct/status/1176068897637720066) > [](https://twitter.com/sansaofrivia/status/1175932143316414464) > [](https://twitter.com/adoIins/status/1175928029241126916) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5683955/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sophie-turner-hug/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5683955/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sophie-turner-hug/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Stars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner Hugging It Out at the 2019 Emmys Proves the Stark Bond Is Forever","datePublished":"2019-09-23T14:50:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:23.105Z","description":"Be still, our hearts","url":"https://time.com/5683955/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sophie-turner-hug/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b32c4e17290a4c/698a035597cdff0f976b994b/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sopnie-turner-hug.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00b32c4e17290a4c/698a035597cdff0f976b994b/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sopnie-turner-hug.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Emmys-2019-Kit-Harington-Sopnie-Turner-Hug","caption":"Game-of-Thrones-Kit-Harington-Sophie-Turner-Emmys-2019-Hug","creditText":"Helen Sloan—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/5683955/emmys-2019-kit-harington-sophie-turner-hug/","name":"Game of Thrones Stars Kit Harington and Sophie Turner Hugging It Out at the 2019 Emmys Proves the Stark Bond Is Forever"}}]}] ```