Kit Harington is returning as Jon Snow for one last hurrah in Game Of Thrones’ final season, but admits, while it’s a close second, it’s not the most important job he’ll have.
Nope, Kit’s ‘most important role’ is being a dad and he shared his hopes of having children with wife Rose Leslie in a new interview with InStyle.
Playing one of the most loved characters in, arguably, one of the most iconic TV series is a pretty huge feat, but it seems like fatherhood would just top playing Snow for eight years.
Speaking about GOT eighth season, Kit had babies on the brain as he told the publication: ‘The most important job I’ll ever have is about to finish, well, not the most. Hopefully, I’ll be a father.’
‘Scuse us if we’re getting a little too carried away, but now we’re imagining a little army of mini-Jon Snows running around. Bet the white walkers wouldn’t expect that one.
Kit also spoke of wife Rose, who he met and fell in love with on the set of Game Of Thrones – she had played Jon’s love Ygritte.
He said getting to work alongside her was one of the ‘highlights’ of his career and, actually, probably the ‘worst thing about falling in love with her’ too.
Might be a slightly odd choice of phrasing, but he has good reason. You see, Kit thinks he can now never work alongside Rose again, because nothing will ever top their GOT experience.
‘I think almost the worst thing about falling in love with Rose and marrying her is that it’s going to be very hard to work with her again,’ Kit said.
‘Working opposite her was one of the highlights of my life and career. I don’t know when, if ever, I’m going to get to do that again, because we’re married now, and it’s hard to work opposite your wife.’
Kit and Rose first stared dating in 2012 and later announced their engagement in 2017. They married a year later in June 2018 at a Scottish castle belonging to Rose’s family.
And it seems like married life hasn’t stopped the pair from pulling the odd prank on each other, with Rose ribbing Kit for shaving off his trademark beard on Saturday Night Live and Kit admitting he played a ‘first world’ April Fool’s Day prank on his wife that totally backfired.
Yup, he wrote an article pretending that Rose’s favourite brand of almond milk had gone bust because of Brexit.
Joke was on him, though, as Rose then rung up his PA and got her to buy the milk in bulk – meaning Jon had a hefty £150 bill on his credit card.
The phrase, ‘you know nothing Jon Snow’, comes to mind…
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