When you play a role as iconic as Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, one of the biggest shows on TV, it's inevitable that some people will struggle to see you as anyone else.
That was reportedly the case for actor Kit Harington, who has just finished a run in a production of Doctor Faustus in London's West End.
According to theatre producer Richard Jordan, Game of Thrones fans ruined Harington's last performance in the play by generally being loud, disrespectful and acting in a manner unbecoming of the theatre. In fact, some of them persisted in taking photos, eating, talking on their phones and worse.
He wrote an opinion piece in industry magazine The Stage that denounced the behaviour but claimed it was a symptom of a TV star acting in a West End show: "What amazed me most was this audience, many of them Game of Thrones fans, could see nothing wrong in talking, eating and taking pictures throughout the show – or complaining when asked to stop."
He added: "a couple saw nothing wrong in producing from their bag a box of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets and a large side of fries. At the interval, they had popped out and purchased these to consume through the second half.
"Munching certainly seemed to be the order of the day. The couple to my left ate their way through a large tub of popcorn during Act I, while the couple on my right chomped through a packet of crisps. It was like listening to eating in Dolby Stereo, and sadly at the expense of being able to properly hear the lines being spoken on stage. At the interval I asked both couples if they had brought their food in with them, and it emerged they had bought it at the theatre’s concession stand."
Read his full tirade here.