Game of Thrones: Davos actor talks ‘awkward’ romance between Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen at the end of Season 7

Davos Seaworth is going to have his work cut out for him in the final season of Game of Thrones.

Jon Snow’s trusted adviser, played by Liam Cunningham (War Horse), will have to deal with White Walkers breaching the northern wall; a Westeros military truce that may not be what it appears (Hello, Cersei Lannister!); and a complicated sexual relationship between Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, whose brother was confirmed to be Snow’s father in the Season 7 finale.

“I’ll tell you something, it’s going to be an awkward cup of coffee when it comes out who he is and what they have just done. The look on [Targaryen’s] face is going to be interesting” when she learns she is Snow’s aunt, says Cunningham.

Before the Targaryen-Snow tryst in the Emmy-winning HBO drama, the biggest collection of characters in recent seasons came together to discuss a temporary truce in a dragon pit.

The actual setting, a Roman Empire-era coliseum in Spain, was “an extraordinary location,” says the Irish actor, 56, “about an hour-and-a-half drive from Westeros.”

“When you’re aware of what we were standing on, which is an arena where a lot of people died a long time ago, there are a lot of ghosts in that place,” he says.