Kit Harington says playing “morally perfect” Jon Snow on ‘Game Of Thrones’ was “difficult”
Kit Harington has said that playing the “morally perfect” Jon Snow on Game Of Thrones was “difficult” in a new interview.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Harrington said playing Snow could be “tricky” because of his moral compass, which rarely veered off course. Harington played Snow over eight seasons of the show.
He told the outlet: “Jon Snow was wonderful, I loved him, but he was sometimes tricky to play because he was morally kind of perfect, which is difficult to play sometimes.”
Now, he says he’s looking forward to joining the cast of Industry, which will premiere later this year.
The show, which is released by BBC in the UK and by HBO in the US, will return to screens later in 2024, with Harington taking on the role of the British aristocrat Lord Henry Muck, described by a press release as “the embodiment of ‘old money’ privilege”.
The show follows a group of young bankers at the prestigious investment bank Pierpoint & Co. in London. Harington will join a returning cast that includes Back to Black’s Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey and Myha’la.
A synopsis of season three reveals that “as Pierpoint looks to the future and takes a big bet on ethical investing, Yasmin (Abela), Robert (Lawtey) and Eric (Ken Leung) find themselves front and centre in the splashy IPO of Lumi, a green tech energy company led by Lord Muck (Harington).”
Speaking about joining the show, Harington told The Hollywood Reporter: “It was fun coming on board something that you’ve seen, that you enjoy, that you’re a fan of,” Harington said of being cast in the series. “I’d not done that before and it’s a bit geeky. You step into a world that you know and you’re like, ‘Ooh, I’m excited to be here.’”
He continued: “I think there will be no doubt in the audience’s mind that Henry Muck is not morally just at all, he really isn’t. The question is whether they like him, whether they care for him, whether they care about him, and understand that those shaky moral foundations have arrived for a reason. And that’s the aim.”
In a review of the first season of the show, NME said: ”It makes the world of banking look deeply unappealing, but makes it very fun to watch others suffer through it.”
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