It’s been over 5 years since Sport of Thrones aired its finale, however Package Harington remains to be getting questions in regards to the HBO hit. You may assume he has principally fond reminiscences—he met his spouse, Rose Leslie, on the present, and for a time rallied for a sequel series centered around his character, Jon Snow. (It’s since been scrapped.) However in a brand new interview, he confesses that by the tip of season eight, he was simply plain exhausted.
Talking with British GQ (by way of Variety) in an article that mentions a few of the off-set annoyances his Sport of Thrones fame introduced him (having to maintain his curly locks a sure size; folks shrieking “You already know nothing!” at him on the street), Harington stated the present needed to finish when it did for one massive purpose.
“I feel if there was any fault with the tip of Thrones, is that we have been all so fucking drained, we couldn’t have gone on longer,” he defined.
He’s additionally properly conscious of the fan disappointment that also swirls across the present’s closing season. “I perceive some folks thought it was rushed and I would agree with them,” he stated. “However I’m undecided there was any different. I take a look at footage of me in that closing season and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn’t have one other season in me.”
Relating to the finale, he instructed the journal, “Everyone seems to be entitled to their opinion. I feel there have been errors made, story-wise, in the direction of the tip possibly. I feel there have been some fascinating decisions that didn’t fairly work.” (The article additionally contains Harington’s memory about what it was like checking into rehab simply because the finale was about to air: “I went in and everybody beloved Thrones; I got here out and everybody hated it … I assumed, What the fuck is happening?!”)
Whereas Harington does speak in regards to the Jon Snow spin-off that by no means was (“Ultimately, I type of backed out and stated, ‘I feel if we push this any additional and preserve growing it we may find yourself with one thing that’s not good. And that’s the very last thing all of us need’”), he additionally, very moderately, stated he’s able to put the character up to now now: “It’s type of important to do my job, for folks to come back and see me and never see Jon Snow.”
As for his transient Marvel Cinematic Universe stint, he’s truly not against seeing his Eternals character Dane Whitman return, as unlikely as that appears: “If Marvel calls, you gotta do it.”
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