HBO staged a scene of Jon meeting with Cersei while filming this episode. Kit Harington said he participated in three fake scenes to throw off leaks, stating "We put together people in situations where we knew the paparazzi were around so they'd take photos and they'd get on the Internet".
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) was a strong advocate for the show's cast hard work on the last season, and found people's offenses aimed at show-runner Benioff and Weiss disrespectful. He said accusing them for lack of interest in landing the show's ending right was unfair and was quoted saying "For anyone to imagine or to think that the two creators of the show are not the most passionate, the greatest, the most invested of all and to for a second think they didn't spend the last 10 years thinking how they were gonna end it is kinda silly. And also know that they too read the comments. Even though you sit on your own and go 'Stupid writers! A**holes!' They really, like everyone on Game of Thrones, every single person--and there are thousands--we worked our asses off to make the best show we could for the ending."
Emilia Clarke said in an interview that this episode would be bigger than The Long Night (2019) which was said previously to be the biggest episode due to the long battle sequence.
Daenerys and Cersei are both wearing similar shaped red colored dresses, with Dany's being a deeper blood red color.