SPOILERS for Game of Thrones Season 6
As almost everyone in the world knows by now, Jon Snow came back from the dead on last Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones. It was a great moment, an expected moment, and a moment that has been years in the making. Entertainment Weekly doesn’t care about spoilers, which is why they put Kit Harington’s sadface and beautiful curls on the cover of this week’s issue. EW already got an exclusive statement from Kit following Sunday’s episode, where Kit flat-out apologized for lying. And Ol’ Sadface has more to say!
Kit Harington is finally ready to tell his story. In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, the Game of Thrones star reveals his extraordinary journey helping pull off one of the biggest creative fake-outs in modern Hollywood history.
As fans of HBO’s Emmy-winning hit now realize, Harington’s murdered character Jon Snow came back to life at the end of Sunday night’s episode, the second of season 6, resurrected by the sorceress Melisandre. The revival ended 10 months of worldwide speculation about Snow’s fate.
Not only did actor Kit Harington and the producers manage to hide his role in season 6 from public view (aside from one pesky leaked photo), his role itself is actually huge: Kit Harington spent more days on set this season than any other Thrones actor. “It’s a massive season for Jon,” Harington tells us. “It’s his biggest season for him so far.”
Does Jon Snow’s resurrection really count as a “fake out” if literally everyone expected him to be resurrected at some point? I would say that GoT was fan-servicing, except that I just think the writers were going with George RR Martin’s intent anyway. EW also has a story about the lengths the cast and crew went through to protect this season’s Jon Snow-intensive storyline. Apparently, no one could make any references to “Jon Snow” or “Kit Harington.” He was code-named “LC” for Lord Commander, only Carice Van Houten started calling him something dirty (my theory: she was calling him Long C—k).
Incidentally, Carice also gave an interview to People Magazine following Episode 2, and she had nice things to say about working with Kit. She said that Melisandre doesn’t even really believe that she revived/resurrected Jon Snow. She also says that her mom and her sister both love Kit, and that he’s gone out of his way to be nice to her family.
Here are some photos of Kit in London from a month ago (I just never got around to posting these, sorry). Kit accepted the gift of a scarf from a fan!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, cover courtesy of EW.
I used to love Jon Snow. Now I am over GOT…sick of looking at girl parts and decapitations. My husband is still perched in front of the tv, but I’m over it. I will be happy in October when the Dead returns to see that just like Jon Snow, Daryl Dixon is alive and well. Kit is a smallish guy, looks better on television than print. The End.
He is short and slender – i walked past him Soho in London last summer and he’s at least 5’4”, I’m about 5’6”.
Ditto. I’m so over GOT and their cast of 1,000 characters that move the plot exactly nowhere. It’s been what, six seasons, and still winter hasn’t freaking come? It should have started snowing in King’s Landing in season 2. I’m over the excessive violence and misogyny and the existential glee the show has towards inflicting horror on its character–not for plot development, but merely for the sake of horror. This show is ridiculously overrated and its thousand puzzle pieces add up to a bored George RR Martin who doesn’t have a firm enough hand of his own plot to carry it through the end. It’s much more difficult to focus on a handful of characters that drive your narrative and develop them accordingly, than it is to split the narrative focus to yet another side character—a tactic young writer’s do a lot when they’re not sure what’s going to happen next with the central hero. Now Martin is stuck with so many threads, wrapping them up into one cogent tapestry will take an incredible amount of work.
The point of the show seems moot because at this point who cares who sits on the Iron Throne? King’s Landing is portrayed as a cesspool and there are so many countries in that world with their own culture and ruling parties, it doesn’t seem to matter who sits on the ‘iron’ throne, no one person would have the military and infrastructural capabilities to rule the whole world he’s created, and why would you want to, it will just devolve into bickering and an assassination plot.
I thought Jon Snow was hot in season one, but I can’t figure out if the character was interminably dull, or if it was just a painfully one-note acting performance, or if it’s some combination of the two. It doesn’t help that he got stuck tromping around in the snow for 6 long seasons. It’s about as interesting as Daenerys watching sand grow in the desert for 6 seasons, accomplishing nothing.
GOT is just a big budget, prettily shot mess.
YES!!! I’m all here for Jon intensive-episodes!.
I’m here anticipating next Sunday’s episode already. Can’t wait!. And I’ve always liked Kit. I think he seems like a pretty cool dude.
HODOR!!!
WUNWUN!!!
GHOSR!!!
CROQUEMGHOSR!
Damn. Kit’s not really my type, but he looks good on that cover. It’s kind of amazing that only one set photo of him leaked considering it was revealed how much screen time he’ll have this season.
And I wonder if Shireen’s death played a role in Jon Snow’s resurrection. Either way, I realized that while GOT is on my life revolves around Sunday and then just waiting for Sunday.
Seriously, I think that’s the best I’ve ever seen him look. He’s not my type either, but that cover shot has come close to changing my mind.
Now why isn’t it Sunday already? It’s only stupid Wednesday, hmph.
He’s about 60 percent my type. I think I might crush him.
Also suspect Shireen’s death, Ghost, and Jon’s own king’s blood had something to do with the resurrection. Like, maybe Melisandre healed the body and the rest brought Jon’s soul back to it.
I feel sad for GRRM that he didn’t get to reveal this in his next book.
@jenns – mine too! And in between Sundays I scour the interwebs reading all I can find. Obsessed!!
Not only did actor Kit Harington and the producers manage to hide his role in season 6 from public view (aside from one pesky leaked photo)
Bless them, it was a lot more than that, there were numerous shots of him filming and he was papped flying into Belfast, he didn’t even try to disguise himself
I know..I have to laugh about them congratulating themselves for keeping it a secret. It was the worst kept secret. He was openly in Belfast during filming…he did nothing to hide and the show did nothing to hide him.
I just don’t find his acting appealing. In the books, I hope Jon’s back but on the show, I would have been fine with him staying dead.
Even people I know that do not follow this show on the internet (they are not looking for spoilers/actor sightings/etc) were like, “was anyone surprised that he’s back?”
Only one photo of him working on set leaked. We now know that he worked more days than any other actor this year, so that’s impressive. If you read the various GoT sites, quite a few fans began to get nervous and second guess themselves.
The thing I don’t get is the whining from some critics and journalists that it was predictable. They’ve just spent ten months talking about how he must be coming back and printing any tiny spoiler they could find about it and then they complain. It’s bizarre. GoT already killed the main character once; twice would have been repetitive.
I’m the same. In the books I really like and enjoy Jon Snow. On the show I really like and enjoy all the characters around him (Davos, Mel, Tormund, Ed) but Kitt is a very mediocre actor in a stellar cast and I find him a negative distraction. When Jon was dead, I realised for the first two episodes just how strongly I loved The Wall without Jon there to pull focus from the other characters around him, who are fascinating.
I was very disappointed to see him back so early. I wanted a Wall-heavy season, just not one that revolved around Kitt Harrington’s acting.
It’s not GRRM’s fault the show goes nowhere. He doesn’t have creative control, he doesn’t even write one episode per season any more. It’s D&D’s adaptation, it’s on their shoulders.
Winter came at the end of Dance, so it should be on the show any time now.
his name at the front of the opening credits for the past two episodes also made it pretty clear that he was more than a corpse on a slab this season
I cannot believe people were surprised Jon Snow is alive. Like how could you be so gullible ??
I didn’t know what to believe because he died in the book, and that was that. I didn’t realize they had gone so far off the storyline of the books. In a way, I liked sort of knowing what was going to happen because parts of it, like torture, I knew I couldn’t watch. But as the years went by, I was starting to forget what happened in the books anyway. I guess I’m glad he’s alive. Are you?
He has not died in the books either. Actually Dance with Dragons ended in the same place with Jon Snow as last season.
GNAT: Exactly. They do take liberties from the books. I was so bummed last season seeing him laying dead on the ground, but just knew he would be back. He doesn’t have a very good poker face, everyone knew he was lying. Everyone is so excited and I just can’t get into it anymore. But it will be on anyway in my house, so I’ll be watching.
Dance with Dragons ends with the stabbing. He’s still semi-conscious and alive and regretting he didn’t follow Melisandra’s advice to keep Ghost with him
Oh. See? I told you I was forgetting it. Lol
Kaiser, I know this post is a major no-no so if you don’t post it I understand, but I hope you can do a thread on Carl Lagerfeld’s fashion show in Cuba. It is so beautiful and is out-of- the- box wonderful from all the other standard runway stuff.
I think you can email them directly if you want to. There’s contact information at the bottom of the page. Forgive me if you already know this.
This guy is seriously overrated in terms of looks, he’s also a very mediocre actor. I kinda wished they kepy John Snow dead.
Same.
Second or third this.
Well then who is going to fly on his dragon?! We need him on that wall lol
Yaaaaassss, my body is ready for MOAR Jon!
Bring it, Sadface, bring. It.
It would have been much better if they had just kept it ambiguous instead of insisting “HE’S REALLY REALLY REALLY DEAD FOREVER AND EVER WE’LL MISS YOU KIT”
To be fair, they didn’t expect to have to sell that line for a year. It just went on and on and on because they were waiting for the sixth book. They wanted to let George reveal Jon’s resurrection but he missed his deadline … then he missed his second deadline. In retrospect he was never going to get The Winds of Winter out in early 2016 as he planned – he seems to be getting slower – but it was a nice gesture by them.
Oh, and I guess next they’ll tell us how water is wet, hm?
He doesn’t bother me. Cute, but tiny, and I don’t feel qualified to judge the acting of anyone who(m) wasn’t on 7th Heaven or Full House. He’s more than sufficiently brooding. Keen on, you beautiful banshee. You bastard of Westeros. You king of the wall.
Personally I wasn’t expecting him to be revived in the second episode. I thought this episode Melissandre would try to revive him and fail (as she did) and they would put him on the funeral pyre and the episode would end with them lighting it. Then in episode 3 he’d walk out of the flames like Dany did, hinting at their parallels.
So happy to have him back. He looks hot here, maybe because he actually looks a bit like Robb Stark in this image; for whom I am still grieving! 😢😩
I’m hoping GoT is trending towards some happy payoff after all the emotional torment we have been through in the previous 5 seasons.
Also, can Ramsay die in a slow painful way? I can’t watch him torture anyone else. Thanks!
Oh happy smiling Kit, that’s lovely to see! I’m just glad he’s back (on covers and GOT)!
LOVE GoT – love Kit & all the actors. So much has happened in 3 episodes – it’s incredible!