By With his new role in the third season of HBO’s “Industry,” and a bare-all West End stage turn in “Slave Play,” British actor Kit Harington is this month’s GQ cover star.
As part of that, he has given an interview talking about his career, including the role of Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones” which made him famous.
The character was being potentially lined up to return to screens in “Snow,” a spin-off sequel series that would follow his character in the wake of events of the main ‘Thrones’ series – with him banished to serve on the Night’s Watch.
Then came word earlier this year that the project had effectively fallen apart and had been cancelled before it went into production. Speaking about it, Harington says they tried but couldn’t quite crack the story:
“My first reaction was no. And then I thought there could be an interesting and important story about the soldier after the war. I felt that there might be something left to say and a story left to tell in a pretty limited way. We spent a couple of years back and forth developing it. And it just didn’t … nothing got us excited enough.”
Harington backed out and the project has essentially been abandoned, with attention turning towards other potential ‘Thrones’ spin-offs. The actor also commented on the final season of “Game of Thrones” which was heavily criticised for being rushed and unsatisfying. He says a big part of that was exhaustion:
“I think if there was any fault with the end of ‘Thrones,’ is that we were all so f—-ing tired, we couldn’t have gone on longer. And so I understand some people thought it was rushed and I might agree with them.
But I’m not sure there was any alternative. I look at pictures of me in that final season and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn’t have another season in me.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion [about the finale]. I think there were mistakes made, story-wise, towards the end maybe. I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work.”
He acknowledges Jon Snow was “the biggest, most important piece of work” he’s done, but his subsequent roles he’s aimed to “divorce completely from this previous thing”.
Source: GQ
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