'Game of Thrones' Star Iain Glen Says Filming for Final Season Battle Was 'Really Miserable'

One of the elements fans are mostly looking forward to in the last season of Game of Thrones is the epic battle scene. These scenes, of course, can be grueling to film and take time to get just right, so it's no surprise that the highly-anticipated scene really took its toll on the cast and crew.

The battle scene, we know, will take place in Season 8, Episode 3, and spill over into Episode 4. It will feature all of our favorite characters fighting for their lives. We also know that some from the South, *cough Jaime cough*, come to join the fight, from what we can see in the new trailer which debuted today.

But what we will see on screen as the war wages on doesn't seem to be that different from how it felt filming it. As Vanity Fair reports, the hyped up battle scene was shot at night over the span of 11 weeks.

Actor Iain Glen, who plays Jorah Mormont, said that it was the worst time he had on the set of the show. He shared:

"It was the most unpleasant experience I’ve had on Thrones. A real test, really miserable. You get to sleep at seven in the morning and when you wake in the midday you’re still so spent you can’t really do anything, and then you’re back. You have no life outside it. You have an absolute f**ked bunch of actors. But without getting too method [acting] about it, on screen it bleeds through to the reality of the Thrones world.

Entertainment Weekly even reported that apparently one "series regular" actress "abruptly collapsed," causing panic on set.

"I heard the crew was getting 40,000 steps a day on their pedometers," actor Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos Seaworth, added. "They’re the f**king heroes."

"Nothing can prepare you for how physically draining it is. It’s night after night, and again and again, and it just doesn’t stop," Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, has explained. "You can’t get sick, and you have to look out for yourself because there’s so much to do that nobody else can do . . . there are moments you’re just broken as a human and just want to cry."

To say the hype is real for this insane-sounding battle would be an understatement. GoT returns on April 14.