The theme of the seventh trip to Westeros is "winter is coming" – that is to say, the Night's King is getting even closer. But Kit admitted that's not necessarily true, at least not in the real world. Speaking to Time magazine, the Brit actor said: "The one irony I found this year, it was a very sad irony: we went to Iceland to find snow, because winter is [there].
"We got there and we were lucky to get the snow we did because, in our world, winter is definitely not here."