![]() Programming president Casey Bloys, who’s remaining at the network, says via email that “Thrones” is both a valuable part of HBO’s catalog - “I’m sure that when George R.R. The show is now, among its other distinctions, a bridge between HBO’s past and whatever will be its future. Plepler’s decision to greenlight “Thrones” helped cement HBO’s place as TV’s most artistically ambitious outlet as it concludes, he has announced his departure from the network, which has been reorganized under an umbrella led by Robert Greenblatt after its purchase by AT&T. We weren’t just trying to re-engineer the genes of what ‘Game of Thrones’ was, but we had a fresh, exciting perspective that didn’t let the franchise go away.” Outgoing network CEO Richard Plepler tells Variety that the planned prequel series, set to star Naomi Watts, is “something special. “They could have easily set the same budget as they did for Season 7, but they went bigger.” Harington believes that a reason for the expanded scope of an already grand show was to “establish that HBO can do this” before a future spinoff. “They went balls out, I think is the term,” Harington says of Season 8. And that doesn’t necessarily go along with my casting, so it’s going to take a bit of work to fight against that.” But give Harington this: After years of filming the battle between good and evil, he knows how to put up a fight.īefore he can be fully post-“Thrones,” Harington has to get through the airing of the eighth season - six final episodes that promise to set the internet ablaze on Sunday nights this spring. “Every script I read at the moment is about characters who are deeply flawed and in some ways antiheroes. “I’m not really driven by wanting to play heroes right now,” he says. And it’s made Harington - whose on-screen relationship with Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen was last season’s surprise twist - into among the most speculated-about stars on Earth, as fans wait for the show’s April 14 return to see if Jon will die (again), claim the crown, or something in between.Īll of which has presented Harington with two sorts of pressure in his career: first, learning to live up to the expectations of fans as the moral center of “Thrones,” and then, defying those expectations as he sets a path toward becoming something more complicated than simply an icon. “Thrones” is the most Emmy-winning prime-time series and HBO’s most watched show ever, one whose international broadcasts have made Jon Snow an icon of rectitude the world over. It felt like someone was shedding me of something.” For a long time toward the end of ‘Thrones,’ I felt like I wanted to be a new person but I was stuck in this shape.” On the last day of shooting, Harington says, “I took off the costume, and it felt like my skin was being peeled away. “My wedding pictures are me with that look. “A huge part of my 20s are me with that look,” he says. Shooting what quickly came to be the biggest show in the world throughout his 20s left him at the precipice of 30 (he’s 32 now) wondering what was left to accomplish. ![]() It was a style, and an identity, that could feel at times constricting. “I can’t tell you the amount of conversations I’ve had with agents about whether my hair’s going to grow back in time.” “For any other job I’ve had up until now, there’s a contractual element over me that I have to return to ‘Thrones’ with a similar look,” he says over lunch in his home in London before an evening performance. But to Harington, the cut is less professional obligation than opportunity to begin the process of leaving behind Jon Snow. It’s in service of his first gig since “Thrones” wrapped shooting, as thwarted screenwriter Austin in Sam Shepard’s American theater standard “True West,” which played London’s West End from Dec. (He’s too consumed by duty, after all, to get a haircut.) They’re the most compelling curls on the small screen since “Felicity” - which makes it all the more surprising that Harington’s now sporting short, slicked-back hair. On “ Game of Thrones,” the show that brought him global fame as good-hearted action hero Jon Snow, Harington’s locks furl out behind him like a military banner, providing glamorous evidence of Snow’s lack of vanity. Or, these days, the relative absence of it. ![]() The first thing you notice about Kit Harington is the hair. ![]()
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