Ironic: Kit Harrington disappointed with Jon Snow’s return
Actor was hoping his character would return as a changed person
Kit was last seen in the play Doctor Faustus. PHOTO: FILE
LONDON:
Hollywood heartthrob Kit Harrington — best known for essaying the character of Jon Snow on the popular TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones — has confessed that he was disappointed when he first heard about his return to the show. Jon was killed off at the end of season five but revived at the start of the sixth.
According to Harrington, when the actor was told that his character would be brought back from the dead, he had high hopes Jon would return as a changed person. “I knew I was coming back to life but I did not know if I would come back as a changed person or as a villain. So, I couldn’t really pre-plan anything, which was hard,” said Harrington. “I got the scripts and saw that Jon comes back as himself, as the Jon that everyone knows, which, at first I found disappointing.”
However, the Pompeii star soon found the silver lining. “But now, Jon has an insight into what lies beyond that very few people in this world do. He knows that there’s no afterlife, which does quietly drive who he is and what he wants to do,” Harrington added.
The 29-year-old now believes he is the safest person on Game of Thrones as the producers are unlikely to get rid of him for the foreseeable future. According to Harrington, it would make for “awful storytelling” to kill Jon off so soon after bringing him back to life. “Here’s the thing… I feel like one of the safest people on Game of Thrones now. Maybe I shouldn’t say that. Jon could die next season but I felt very safe this season,” he said. “Because if I come back to life in episode two, it would be awful storytelling if you kill me in episode four. So I did feel a bit cocky this season,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2016.
Hollywood heartthrob Kit Harrington — best known for essaying the character of Jon Snow on the popular TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones — has confessed that he was disappointed when he first heard about his return to the show. Jon was killed off at the end of season five but revived at the start of the sixth.
According to Harrington, when the actor was told that his character would be brought back from the dead, he had high hopes Jon would return as a changed person. “I knew I was coming back to life but I did not know if I would come back as a changed person or as a villain. So, I couldn’t really pre-plan anything, which was hard,” said Harrington. “I got the scripts and saw that Jon comes back as himself, as the Jon that everyone knows, which, at first I found disappointing.”
However, the Pompeii star soon found the silver lining. “But now, Jon has an insight into what lies beyond that very few people in this world do. He knows that there’s no afterlife, which does quietly drive who he is and what he wants to do,” Harrington added.
The 29-year-old now believes he is the safest person on Game of Thrones as the producers are unlikely to get rid of him for the foreseeable future. According to Harrington, it would make for “awful storytelling” to kill Jon off so soon after bringing him back to life. “Here’s the thing… I feel like one of the safest people on Game of Thrones now. Maybe I shouldn’t say that. Jon could die next season but I felt very safe this season,” he said. “Because if I come back to life in episode two, it would be awful storytelling if you kill me in episode four. So I did feel a bit cocky this season,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2016.