Have you heard the news? Jon snow is dead. Everybody says so. From the president of HBO on down, everyone insists that we cannot be correct when we see spoilers that suggest otherwise. And joining the gaslighting crowd, Kit Harington breezes through a new interview with The Guardian and talks about how sad he is to be “done” with the program.
In between talking about his new gig onstage in Doctor Faustus, Harington talks about how happy he is to return to the stage, but that he’ll miss Game of Thrones.
Thrones is an amazing thing, and is going to continue to be incredible – so it is a loss not being there, in the circus. It has had an amazing impact on my life. I wouldn’t be in this, or getting a lot of the offers I have, were it not for Thrones.
Not only did the show make him a household name, but it also got him his girlfriend—not something he talks about that often.
Yeah, it was a lovely thing: me and Rose met in season two. Ygritte’s death on set was very emotional: I was losing my very best friend and girlfriend on the show and I was coming back next year. The character was in loss and so was I.
But be not mistaken—Jon Snow is dead and his role is finished.
He’s featured on the posters of season six… I’m really dead. I’m not coming back. I’ve got a film lined up straight after this with Xavier Dolan, The Death and Life of John F Donovan. I’m playing a young TV star about to break into movies, who is very troubled and finds himself wrapped up in scandal, and is unfairly set upon. It’s about his descent.
See? See all the work he’s got lined up? All of which happens to be scheduled for before Game of Thrones filming for Season 7 begins? And he’s so much happier in theater anyway.
In film and TV you work and prep in isolation. You have a sense of company, but that company is fractured. It comes together and moves away, whereas in theatre you spend five weeks with the same people, really creating something together. That’s what I missed. And the applause, I guess (laughs).
So if we all clap hard and loud enough Jon snow will come back to life like Tinkerbell? Now that would certainly be something for Melisandre to lead…