During a video interview with W Magazine in 2016, Harington reflected on the McDonald's brawl that left him with a black eye: "I went into the McDonald's with this girl I was sort of dating at the time. It was late at night and there was no seats. I asked this guy and this girl he was with if we could sit at the same table at them . . . and quite quickly he starts being really rude to the girl I was with, calling her names. And we were like, 'We'll just finish our food, we don't need trouble.' And then he called her something like an ugly pig or something worse and I got up and said, 'No, no, you can't call her that, get up.' So I called him out for a fight, which I never done before, and of course, he'd been sat down the whole time. So he got up and he just kept going [up]. And I just realized that I had to at that point throw the first punch otherwise I'd look like a complete wimp. And I got battered."
