Game Of Thrones is over, but new documentary Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch has arrived online to allow us to look further behind-the-scenes of HBO’s fantasy mega-hit than ever before. Here, the director chats about filming the cast’s emotional table read reactions…

The documentary, which was directed Jeanie Finlay, has unprecedented access to the set and staff of Game Of Thrones, offering fascinating insights on who the people are that made this global phenomenon possible. It covers everything from extras chatting about their favourite houses to important producers fretting about The Beast From The East.

The moment in which Finlay captures the cast’s first-ever read through the finale script is an absolute highlight for fans, and now Collider has asked Finlay about how she shot it. Although she had read some scripts in advance, Finlay says, “the final episode was saved for the table read, so I’d not read that. So, we were … filming on the [fly] a bit.

“I filmed the right-hand side of the table, so I was filming Conleth [Hill] and all down that side, and then my director of photography – Mark Bushnell – was filming the other side of the table and we were both operating two cameras each…

“I just wanted to capture everyone’s reactions as much as possible. So when Maisie goes [through] killing the Night King and she does that little hair flip – as I’m filming that I’m just like, ‘Yes, I got [that]! That’s amazing.'”

Finlay continues: “But I’d had a heads up that Kit [Harington] hadn’t read the scripts and that Liam Cunningham had had some difficulties downloading his because it was all electronic scripts.

“So, you can hear on the clip Liam’s voice reacting in real time. And for a documentary maker you’re always looking to capture the energy in the moment, so we were sort of glued to the action as it was sort of going on. And I knew that Kit’s reactions would be memorable, and I knew that Emilia’s reactions would be memorable. So we knew that we had to gather that, but then also get David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik, and David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss], and Bernie [Caufield] and Chris [Newman], because everyone there is invested in this. And it’s a really unusual thing where a table read had never been filmed since Season 1 – which I also use in the film – so it just felt like this is really special, you’ve got to do it justice.”

Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch is available to watch on Now TV right now.