"I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are okay. He's not okay."
That 'Game of Thrones' series about Jon Snow is still happening, and Kit Harington recently dropped some clues about the character's headspace going into the spin-off. Spoiler warning: he's got some trauma.
Harington played the character for eight seasons on HBO's hit fantasy show, which was based on the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels by George R. R. Martin. The last time we saw him, Snow had stabbed his lover/aunt Daenerys Targaryen and was sentenced back to The Wall to live out his remaining days, once again, as one of the Sworn Brothers of the Night's Watch.
This sequel series, which has a working title of 'SNOW', is the first direct follow-up of the main 'GOT' storyline that will continue and of the characters' stories. There's been no word yet if any other actors from 'Game of Thrones' past will be joining him for more hardship up north.
This past weekend, Harington made an appearance at the first official 'Game of Thrones' Convention in Los Angeles, and he touched on where Jon Snow's head is at after that devastating final act of his.
He said: "I think if you asked him, he would've felt he got off lightly. At the end of the show when we find him in that cell, he's preparing to be beheaded and he wants to be. He's done. The fact he goes to the Wall is the greatest gift and also the greatest curse.
"He's gotta go back up to the place with all this history and live out his life thinking about how he killed Dany, and live out his life thinking about Ygritte dying in his arms, and live out his life thinking about how he hung Olly, and live out his life thinking about all of this trauma, and that… That's interesting.
"So I think where we leave him at the end of the show, there's always this feeling of like… I think we wanted some kind of little smile that things are okay. He's not okay."
In 'Snow', Kit Harington's character will go by a new name, presumedly to protect him from the questionable men The Night's Watch sometimes harbours. Expect more details about the secretive 'Jon Snow' series in the new year.
