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Harington won’t return to Game of Thrones
Actor Kit Harington found it emotional to finish the popular TV series, Game of Thrones, but he vowed he would never go back for any more episodes.
The British actor portrayed Jon Snow in the hit fantasy drama since 2011, and earlier this year, wrapped the final scenes for the show’s last season, which will air in 2019.
Though it was hard for him to end that chapter of his life, Harington is not sad about moving on. “It was emotional to leave the job definitely,” he tells bbc.com.
The actor adds, “But I wouldn’t say I was sad: if like me you go all the way back to the pilot of Game of Thrones that’s almost 10 years of your life — that’s really unusual in an actor’s career. It was a huge emotional upheaval leaving that family. But would I want to go back and do more? Not on your life.”
Spin-offs from the main series are currently in the works, with Naomi Watts already confirmed to star in The Long Night — a prequel series that will be set thousands of years before the events of the show. Would he consider filming a cameo in the prequel? “No,” says Harington.
The 31-year-old is currently performing in True West alongside Beast actor Johnny Flynn. In the play, Harington’s character Austin is working on a movie script he has just sold when his hopeless brother Lee stumbles back into his life.