'Game Of Thrones': Maisie Williams & Kit Harington Talk About The Final Moments Of Last Night's Shocking Episode

**Spoilers for last night’s “Game of Thrones” episode, ‘The Long Night.’ You’ve been warned.**

Arya did it. It wasn’t Jon Snow. Dany didn’t get the chance. Hell, it wasn’t even Tyrion, who has done his fair share of killing. Nope, it was the youngest Stark, the master assassin, who delivered the final blow to the Night King, ending the biggest war in Westerosi history. And according to a new interview with EW, the cast of “Game of Thrones” talks about the shock of that ending and how it was unexpected for everyone involved.

During the cast reading of the new season, Jon Snow actor Kit Harington explained that when they reached the moment in Episode 3 where Arya delivers the killing blow, “it got a huge fucking cheer.”

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“It was so unbelievably exciting,” actress Maisie Williams said. “But I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn’t deserve it. The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain that’s so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them.”

She continued, “It has to be intelligently done because otherwise, people are like, ‘Well, [the villain] couldn’t have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.’ You gotta make it cool. And then I told my boyfriend and he was like, ‘Mmm, should be Jon though really, shouldn’t it?’”

Williams says that the scene with Melisandre, aka the Red Woman, where the witch explains that Arya is destined to kill “blue eyes,” made the actress realize that all that time outside of Westeros was building to this. All that training to be an assassin was to prepare the young Stark for her fight with the army of the dead, and the Night King, specifically.

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Williams said, “[The training] all comes down to this one very moment. It’s also unexpected and that’s what this show does. So then I was like, ‘Fuck you, Jon, I get it.’”

As for Jon, himself, Harington says that the outcome of the war was a shock for him. Much like the fans, the actor believed that Jon Snow was destined to strike that fatal blow.

“I was surprised, I thought it was gonna be me!” Harington said. “But I like it. It gives Arya’s training a purpose to have an end goal. It’s much better how she does it the way she does it.”

He added, “I think it will frustrate some in the audience that Jon’s hunting the Night King and you’re expecting this epic fight and it never happens — that’s kind of ‘Thrones.’ But it’s the right thing for the characters. There’s also something about it not being the person you expect. The young lady sticks it to the man.”

Now, with the Night King vanquished, the big war is over. However, as the preview for Episode 4 teases, the fight of their lives is only the beginning, as Arya and the rest of the North has to move south to King’s Landing and immediately begin the war for the Iron Throne.

“Game of Thrones” airs on Sunday nights on HBO.