Kit Harington is the only GameOfThrones star nominated for GoldenGlobes. Read Variety's cover story on the actor
,” the show that brought him global fame as good-hearted action hero Jon Snow, Harington’s locks furl out behind him like a military banner, providing glamorous evidence of Snow’s lack of vanity. They’re the most compelling curls on the small screen since “Felicity” — which makes it all the more surprising that Harington’s now sporting short, slicked-back hair.
Before he can be fully post-“Thrones,” Harington has to get through the airing of the eighth season — six final episodes that promise to set the internet ablaze on Sunday nights this spring. “They went balls out, I think is the term,” Harington says of Season 8. “They could have easily set the same budget as they did for Season 7, but they went bigger.
Reading reviews — which Harington swore off around Season 3, at the moment the show leveled up from garden-variety hit to mega-smash — hardly helped. He looks at press on everything else he does, and his face grows intense, his mustache furrowing, as he recalls the early coverage of “Thrones.” “My memory is always ‘the boring Jon Snow.’ And that got to me after a while, because I was like, ‘I love him. He’s mine and I love playing him.
Harington has, like Clarke and those who play his on-screen siblings, come into adulthood in front of a huge audience. And that’s been attended by growing pains. When “Thrones” began, he was a part of an ensemble that included not only veterans like Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey but also a large complement of green performers.
“I took off the costume, and it felt like my skin was being peeled away. I was very emotional. It felt like someone was shedding me of something.”The experience, after five years of gradually increasing fame, changed Harington’s outlook. “It’s like when you’re at a party, and the party’s getting better and better. Then you reach this point of the party where you’re like, it’s peaked. I don’t know what I could find more from this. You realize, well, there isn’t more. This is it.
Which is not to say that Harington’s work could have gone on forever. The last season of “Thrones” was an arduous nine-month shoot “in extreme weather and just in heavy f—ing costumes,” Harington says. “I was there the whole time this year. I felt a bit like people were coming in and out, and Jon Snow was just f—ing there the whole time.
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