He knew the writers couldn’t kill him off again.
Kit Harington has revealed how he was the most confident actor on the set of the Game of Thrones for the last season, as he knew the writers could not kill him off again.
He also admitted that Jon Snow’s return, when he was brought back to life in episode two, left him a bit disappointed.
“Here’s the thing: I feel like one of the safest people on Thrones now. Maybe I shouldn’t say that. He could die next season, but I felt very safe this season. Because if I come back to life in episode two, it would be awful storytelling if you kill me in episode four. So I felt a bit cocky this season.”
The 29-year-old actor admitted he was disappointed that Snow came back as the same character he had been when he was ‘killed off’ by the Kingsguard.
“I knew I was coming back to life, but I didn’t know if I’d come back as a changed person, as a villain. So I couldn’t pre-plan anything, which was hard,” he said.
“I got the scripts, and actually, he comes back as himself, as the Jon that everyone knows. Which at first I found disappointing.
“But he has an insight into what lies beyond that very few people in this world do. He knows that there’s no afterlife. Which does quietly drive who he is and what he wants to do.”
He reveals what it was like to be left lying on a table, before Jon’s reincarnation.
“I was on that flipping table… I thought it would be quite nice just to have a couple of episodes lying down, but it was really frustrating.
“Everyone’s getting on with the job around you, and you just have to be still, and naked, for weeks. I drifted off a few times on that table, and woke up in the middle of Game of Thrones world, which was terrifying.”
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