Kit Harington in a still from Game Of Thrones.
Highlights
- Kit Harington plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.
- Jon Snow has returned from the dead in the new season of the cult show
- Kit Harington was told of the resurrection while Season 5 was filming.
Yes, Kit Harington lied to us but his deception over the death/life of Jon Snow ran far deeper. In the unkindest cut of all, the
Game Of Thrones actor had to lie to the rest of the cast for about a year, reports
Entertainment Weekly.
As you couldn't fail to know by now, Jon Snow has returned from the dead in the new season of the cult show, thrilling fans who spent all of the past year looking for a miracle that would undo the finale of Season 5 which ended with
Jon Snow's death. Kit Harington was told of the planned resurrection while Season 5 was filming but sworn to secrecy and had to tell his colleagues that he would be leaving.
"At first, I thought I would find it fun. But I had to lie to a lot of close friends and cast members and crew. The longer it went, the more I felt like I was betraying them. So I did end up letting people in, slowly," Kit told
Entertainment Weekly.
His colleagues mostly bought the lie, with actress Sophie Turner - the show's Sansa Stark - writing Kit a long letter about how much she had enjoyed working with him. "That made me chuckle," Kit Harington told EW.
In a separate interview to
EW, Kit apologized for deceiving the world. I'd like to say sorry for lying to everyone. I'm glad that people were upset that he died. I think my biggest fear was that people were not going to care. Or it would just be, 'Fine, Jon Snow's dead,'" he said.
The cast figured it out when the scripts for Season 6 were handed out - so did the rest of us, joining the dots from the time Kit was seen at Wimbledon last year still with his Jon Snow hair to when he was spotted in Belfast where the show films.
So strenuously did Kit Harington insist that it was to be a Snow-less Season 6 all through last year (telling fans in January to 'get used to it') that resurrecting the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch seemed an impossible mission.
But there has been Snow in summer and if winter be coming, then it will be just that little bit warmer for fans.