Kit Harington has opened up about his return to Game of Thrones , admitting it was "disappointing".
Jon
Snow was killed off on the HBO fantasy drama at the end of season five
and when Kit was told he would be brought back from the dead, the actor
had high hopes that the character would return "a changed person".
"I knew I was coming back to life, but I didn't know if I'd come back
as a changed person, as a villain. So I couldn't pre-plan anything,
which was hard," he told The Wrap.
"I
got the scripts, and actually, he comes back as himself, as the Jon
that everyone knows. Which at first I found disappointing.
"But
he has an insight into what lies beyond that very few people in this
world do. He knows that there's no afterlife. Which does quietly drive
who he is and what he wants to do."
And Kit now thinks he is the "safest person" on Game of Thrones as
bosses are unlikely to get rid of him for the foreseeable future because
it would be "awful storytelling" to kill him off so soon after he was
brought back to life.
He said: "Here's the thing: I feel like one
of the safest people on 'Thrones' now. Maybe I shouldn't say that. He
could die next season, but I felt very safe this season. Because if I
come back to life in episode two, it would be awful storytelling if you
kill me in episode four. So I felt a bit cocky this season."
Jon was brought back to life in the second episode of season six and
for the first two episodes, Kit spent his time on-screen lying on a
table, something which he found incredibly difficult.
He said: "I
was on that flipping table ... I thought it would be quite nice just to
have a couple of episodes lying down, but it was really frustrating.
Everyone's getting on with the job around you, and you just have to be
still, and naked, for weeks. I drifted off a few times on that table,
and woke up in the middle of Game of Thrones world, which was
terrifying."
