Kit Harington as Jon Snow inGame of Thrones.
Kit Haringtonis reflecting on the fate of his most beloved character.
“I think if you asked him,he would’ve felt he got off lightly,” he explained, according toEntertainment Weekly. “At the end of the show when we find him in that cell, he’s preparing to be beheaded and he wants to be. He’s done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse.
He played Jon Snow since the show, based onGeorge R. R. Martin’s novels, premiered on HBO in 2011. In June,The Hollywood Reporterannounced that a sequel series about the characterwas in early development.
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“So I think where we leave him at the end of the show, there’s always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are okay. He’s not okay,” said Harington.
Harington previously checked into the Privé-Swiss retreat in Connecticut back after the show wrapped back in May 2019. His rep told PEOPLE at the time that the actor decided to “utilize this break in his schedule as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreatto work on some personal issues.”
Last August, the British actor said on SiriusXM’sThe Jess Cagle Showthat he was “really happy” he took a break from acting after wrappingGoT.
“I went through, kind of, some mental health difficulties afterThronesand during the end ofThrones, to be honest,” he explained. And I think it was directly to do with the nature of the show and what I’ve been doing for years.
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“I think I took, sort of, a break afterThroneswhere, so, I don’t want to work for a year [and] I want to really kind of concentrate on myself. I think I’m really happy I did that,” Harington added.
source: people.com
