{"id":67478,"date":"2017-11-06T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=67478"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:00:52","slug":"kit-harington-on-life-after-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/06\/kit-harington-on-life-after-game-of-thrones\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Harington on life after Game of Thrones John Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kit Harington Life After Game Of Thrones<\/strong><\/h1>\n

‘I’m Not Always Going To Play Swords And Horses’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kit Harington\u00a0is reminiscing about his drama school days. \u201cYou think you know the world, and you\u2019re so overly serious about what you\u2019re doing, and how important it is, sitting on the steps, with coffee and a script, in black\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"KitHe smiles, but his arms are folded defensively across his chest, and he occasionally brings a hand up to play with his moustache. He\u2019s wearing take-me-seriously wire-framed specs and is dressed entirely in black. He looks down and has a moment of recognition, as if he\u2019s just walked into a trap. \u201cI am actually completely in black. And I\u2019m talking about important things,\u201d he smiles. \u201cI haven\u2019t changed at all, have I?\u201d<\/p>\n

He might not think so, but at 30 Harington is living a very different life from the one he led at 19. Shortly after leaving drama school, he signed up to shoot the pilot for a promising new television fantasy series,\u00a0Game Of Thrones, playing a moody young northerner called Jon Snow. It was his first screen role. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know if it was going to go, and we didn\u2019t know if it was going to be any good,\u201d he explains. \u201cBut it was HBO, and it was American TV, so it felt like a huge deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Game of Thrones\u2019 first incarnation wasn\u2019t promising, however, and the pilot turned out to be a dud. \u201cThey made a lot of mistakes. It didn\u2019t look right, didn\u2019t feel right, had nothing different about it.\u201d In it, the nascent Jon Snow was wearing a wig, was clean-shaven and made use of the baby face Harington hides under his beard. He claims that hardly anyone has seen that pilot, not even him, but that the show\u2019s creators, DB Weiss and David Benioff, have a copy they use to keep him in line. \u201cThey say, if I ever piss them off too much, they\u2019ll release it on YouTube. Every now and then, they send me a screengrab, just as a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weiss and Benioff went back to the drawing board. Harington, then 23, grew his hair long, slapped some mud on his face and surprised himself by sprouting a beard for the first time. The whole show became dirtier, grittier and more grown up. By the end of the first season, millions of viewers who might have balked at the idea of swordfights and spells suddenly found that, when sex and violence were added to the mix, they could get behind a fantasy series, after all. As Game Of Thrones grew into the behemoth it is today, Snow was manoeuvred into the very heart of the story.<\/p>\n

Harington is now about to go to work on the show\u2019s eighth and final season. How is Snow going to feel when he finds out that the woman he\u2019s in love with, Daenerys Targaryen, is also his aunt? \u201cI really hope that he just nods slowly and goes, \u2018Damned right\u2019,\u201d he says, doing a mock-leer. \u201cSomething really horribly inappropriate, and you find out Jon\u2019s had a really sick mind the whole time. That\u2019s the way I\u2019d love to play it. I\u2019ll try it for one take, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is close to\u00a0Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys, though owing to the series\u2019 vast geography, the two did not film together until season seven. \u201cBut we were very good friends by the time we got to the sex scene,\u201d Harington laughs and squirms. \u201cWhich is really weird. Usually, you\u2019d turn up and you\u2019d know the actor, but you\u2019re not\u00a0best mates. The main thing was trying not to laugh. It was like, OK, if we laugh, we\u2019ll never get this scene done, so we\u2019ve got to do minimal takes, then we can crack up about it afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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