Kit Harington finally returned to HBO, but not for the long-awaited game of Thrones spin-off series that was being developed for his character, Jon Snow.
Ahead of her new role in season 3 of the HBO drama IndustryHarington reflected on why the GOT The spin-off series failed to take off after years of development.
“I don’t really want to say it, because it starts a whole thing,” he said in a new interview with GQ.
But the actor explained that he was initially willing to return to the franchise, although he had some doubts.
“What I can say is that it was HBO who said to me, ‘Would you consider it? ’ My first reaction was no,” he said. “And then I thought there could be an interesting and important story about the soldier after the war. I felt there could be something more to say and a story to tell in a fairly limited way.”
Harington said he spent “years” going back and forth and developing the show until he finally decided to leave the series, a decision he announced in May of this year.
“It didn’t happen… nothing excited us enough,” he said. “In the end, I backed off and said, ‘I think if we take this any further and keep developing it, we might end up with something that’s not good. And that’s the last thing we all want.’”
The spin-off series was set to follow Jon after the controversial series finale, in which the soldier was exiled to live at the Wall after killing Danaerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). confirmed that the show is “off the table” because they “couldn’t find the right story to tell,” but added that “there may come a time in the future” when they can revisit the series.
While talking to GQHarington spoke candidly about how he felt about the show and possibly returning to the franchise one day.
“There’s a lot of baggage that comes with it, and I think that was part of the problem,” he said. Although he confessed that game of Thrones Although it may be “the biggest and most important job” of his career, the actor expressed that he needed to “porce” himself from the franchise in order to find more work.
“It was also working against what I’m trying to do, which is separate myself from myself. [the show]”he said. “By continuing to be there, [would be] “It’s very difficult to ask people to see you as something different. And that’s essential to doing my job, that people come to see me and not Jon Snow.”
He also acknowledged that the GOT The ending was widely criticized for being “rushed.”
“I understand that some people thought it was a hasty decision, and maybe I agree with them,” he shared. “But I’m not sure there was any other alternative. I look at pictures of myself from that last season and I look exhausted. I look drained. I didn’t have another season ahead of me.”
“I think that if there was any mistake with the end ofThrones“We were all so fucking tired that we couldn’t have continued any further,” he admitted.