Real-Life Couple Kit Harington and Rose Leslie Expose Liaison Between Banks and Fossil Fuels

The Game of Thrones stars draw attention to the cozy relationship between UK banks and fossil fuel companies

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Kit Harington and Rose Leslie fell in love in real life while on the set of Game of Thrones, in which their fictional characters were entangled in a forbidden romance between a brother of the Night’s Watch and a Wildling raider.

Now the couple has reunited on screen to play out a different troubling relationship: between U.K. banks and the fossil fuel industry.

Created by agency Mother London for the organization Make My Money Matter, “The Hidden Relationship” shows Harington and Leslie in couples therapy, representing a bank and an oil company, respectively.

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