Kit Harington Recalls Just Being Exhausted by the End of Game of Thrones

It’s been implicit 5 years since Game of Thrones aired its finale, but Kit Harington is inactive getting questions astir the HBO hit. You mightiness presume helium has mostly fond memories—he met his wife, Rose Leslie, connected the show, and for a clip rallied for a sequel series centered astir his character, Jon Snow. (It’s since been scrapped.) But successful a caller interview, helium confesses that by the extremity of play eight, helium was conscionable plain exhausted.

Speaking with British GQ (via Variety) successful an nonfiction that mentions immoderate of the off-set annoyances his Game of Thrones fame brought him (having to support his curly locks a definite length; radical shrieking “You cognize nothing!” astatine him successful the street), Harington said the amusement had to extremity erstwhile it did for 1 large reason.

“I deliberation if determination was immoderate responsibility with the extremity of Thrones, is that we were each truthful fucking tired, we couldn’t person gone connected longer,” helium explained.

He’s besides good alert of the instrumentality disappointment that inactive swirls astir the show’s last season. “I recognize immoderate radical thought it was rushed and I mightiness hold with them,” helium said. “But I’m not definite determination was immoderate alternative. I look astatine pictures of maine successful that last play and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn’t person different play successful me.”

Regarding the finale, helium told the magazine, “Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I deliberation determination were mistakes made, story-wise, towards the extremity maybe. I deliberation determination were immoderate absorbing choices that didn’t rather work.” (The nonfiction besides includes Harington’s reminiscence astir what it was similar checking into rehab conscionable arsenic the finale was astir to air: “I went successful and everyone loved Thrones; I came retired and everyone hated it … I thought, What the fuck is going on?!”)

While Harington does speech astir the Jon Snow spin-off that ne'er was (“In the end, I benignant of backed retired and said, ‘I deliberation if we propulsion this immoderate further and support processing it we could extremity up with thing that’s not good. And that’s the past happening we each want'”), helium also, precise reasonably, said he’s acceptable to enactment the quality successful the past now: “It’s benignant of indispensable to bash my job, for radical to travel and spot maine and not spot Jon Snow.”

As for his little Marvel Cinematic Universe stint, he’s really not opposed to seeing his Eternals quality Dane Whitman return, arsenic improbable arsenic that seems: “If Marvel calls, you gotta bash it.”

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