Kit Harington is done filming Game of Thrones, but it’ll probably be a while yet before he completely escapes Jon Snow’s shadow. This year, you’ll be able to see him on the big screen as the Viking Eret in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. It’s not Westeros, but it’s still an antiquated world packed with dragons, so Harington should feel right at home.
Harington recently sat down with the Belfast Telegraph to talk about The Hidden World, and about how he’s grappling with Game of Thrones coming to an end. Watch below:
“He’s still a kind of quite overly serious guy,” Harington says of Eret, “and takes himself too seriously, like certain other characters I play.” Oh really? Whoever could he be talking about? “I’ve loved playing him and being part of this. It is nice to do something which…has a bit more comedy to it and a bit more fun to be had.”
As for the end of Game of Thrones, Harington says he’s “strangely calm about it all,” although he suspects that may be another sign of grief. “I know there’s gonna be one last kind of feeling of, ‘Wow, that’s over and done.’”
I’m looking forward to celebrating a bit. I’m looking forward to seeing my mates again. It’s very few times now that we’ll all be in the same room. With something like this that’s coming to an end the team that put this together will be feeling the same way…When something finishes there’s a kind of emotional upheaval, but really you just wanna be around the people you made it with, and that’s what we’re gonna do to celebrate.
And then there’s whatever comes next. Right now, Hollywood casting directors may see Harington as the guy from that dragon show, but he’s able to play different sorts of roles elsewhere. At the moment, he’s starring in a production of Sam Shepard’s True West at the Vaudeville Theater in London, which is about as far from Game of Thrones as you can get.
I’m looking forward to whatever the next thing is. You know, you’ll never find another Thrones, I don’t think. But saying that, I’ve been part of this, and this has been a huge hit series of films in the same way Thrones has. So who knows? I think it’s best not to kind of try and plan or predict, just see what comes around the corner.
Like many of the Game of Thrones cast members, Harington has a bright future in acting, whether it’s on stage or screen. I’m looking forward to seeing what he and his fellow castmates do with the notoriety Thrones has brought them.
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