INTERVIEW MAGAZINE: 13 FACES OF 2013 - THE HBO HEARTTHROB: KIT HARINGTON
by Emma Brown
It's a pretty safe bet that Carrie is not going to get killed off halfway through Homeland, or that Sookie Stackhouse won't bite the fairy-dust while Bill, Eric, Pam, and Lafayette continue on their misadventures. Most television shows, however successful or critically adored, operate by a certain set of rules—the relationship with the audience is a reciprocal one and you can't capriciously kill off the protagonist before the end of the series.
This is not the case with HBO's Game of Thrones. Easily the most expansive program on television, the opening credits seem a little longer each episode as actors are added and the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos grow larger. With so many spare characters, no single one is safe. Everyone has their favorite—Lena Headey's Lady Macbeth-like Cersei, Peter Dinklage's witty Tyrion —but the resident heartthrob is the painfully earnest Jon Snow, played by British actor Kit Harington.
Game of Thrones is, Harington gushes over the phone, "a pipe dream for an actor." Harington began his career in the theater, but Thrones has since propelled him to worldwide fanmail status. Next year, Harington will star opposite Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, and Ben Barnes in The Seventh Son, and will start filming Pompeii with Paul W.S. Anderson, and his first animated film, How to Train Your Dragon 2...
... BROWN: Whereabouts do you shoot Game of Thrones—Iceland or Belfast?
HARINGTON: "We shoot in both. The whole series shoots in Croatia—this year it was Croatia, Morocco, Iceland, and Belfast. But my bits are very much focused around the cold weather, so I'm either in Belfast or in Iceland. I love both. Belfast feels like home for Thrones now, because we've been there for three years. Iceland, I've been in for the last two years and I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible and you can see the landscape from what's on the show. Whenever anyone gets me started on Iceland I can bore them silly about everything there because I'm very fond of that country now, and I'll go back—whether we shoot there again or not."
BROWN: Can you say anything in Icelandic?
HARINGTON: [laughs] "It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned. They're all brilliant at speaking English, so it's one of those problems that you don't have any trouble communicating..."
Game of Thrones season three premieres Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 9/8C on HBO.
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