Kit Harington made an appearance at the Game of Thrones convention in L.A.
where he was inevitably asked about the Jon Snow sequel series that was
announced earlier this year.
Although Harington couldn’t say much
about the development of the show, he did talk about how Jon Snow ended in
the series and what could be happening to him after his character killed
Daenerys.
“I think if you asked him, he would’ve felt he got off
lightly,” Harington said during the panel at the convention Sunday night,
according to Entertainment Weekly. “At the end of the show when we find him
in that cell, he’s preparing to be beheaded and he wants to be. He’s done.
The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest
curse.”
Harington continued, “He’s gotta go back up to the place with all
this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and
live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms, and live out his
life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about
all of this trauma, and that, that’s interesting.”
Without
directly talking about the Jon Snow spinoff, Harington mentioned what state
of mind his character was in at the end of Game of Thrones and indirectly
teased the spinoff series.
“So I think where we leave him at the
end of the show, there’s always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some
kind of little smile that things are OK. He’s not OK,” he added.
Earlier this year George R.R. Martin revealed that it was
Harington that came up with the idea of continuing Snow’s storyline in a new
series.
“Yes, it was Kit Harrington (sic) who brought the idea to
us,” Martin wrote in his blog back in June of this year. “I cannot tell you
the names of the writers/ showrunners, since that has not been cleared for
release yet… but Kit brought them in too, his own team, and they are
terrific.”
Martin also let loose that SNOW is the working title
of the spinoff series.
