By now, we’ve all heard from Kit Harington how difficult the last year was, pretending to be dead and gone from Game of Thrones Season 6, while all the while filming the most intense season he’s done so far. But in a new interview with Vogue Italia, Harington’s real life performance of having left the show seems to have focused him on when the show finally does end. For one thing, it seems to have influenced his current decision during the off season to take the lead role on a live London stage show of Doctor Faustus, instead of attempting yet again to chase superstardom on screen.
“I made some so-called opportunistic choices for my career in the past. They turned out to be mistakes, I really regretted them, and I will not do it again… Faustus was the best choice I could have made between the various options that have been presented to me. An instinctive choice, like all the ones I plan to make in the future.”
As the interview notes, the litany of on screen roles he could be talking about is vast. But he seems to be really happy with the challenge of doing live theater, even if it’s also overwhelming him at the moment. He’s also focusing on his future in other ways. Since big screen leading man status has so far eluded him, he’s going to focus on where the real money is–production. He’s apparently secured the rights to two potential projects with his best friend, and together they are working on writing scripts.
One: “will focus on the Gunpowder Plot, the famous conspiracy of 1605 when a group of English Catholics planned to blow up King James I along with his entire government at the official ceremony of the opening of Parliament in order to stop the persecution of their fellow Catholics. It’s an event that is commemorated every year in England, yet which surprisingly has never been adequately translated into a film.” The other: “is taken from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The story is set between Paris and London during the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, but the relevance is, again, absolutely contemporary.”
Both of which sound like projects that would easily be picked up by the BBC, especially if Harington is attached to star. He’s aware he’s lucked out in small screen success, and could easily capitalize on it. He’s lucked out in other ways too–as most outlets are reporting from this interview, he also opened up about falling in love with Rose Leslie, his now ex-costar from the show.
“The three weeks in Iceland when we were shooting the second season. Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love… If you’re already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it’s becomes very easy to fall in love…”
As for the future of Game of Thrones, since the show has now passed the books, Vogue asks if his performance might affect the Jon Snow we see on the page going forward. Harington dismisses that out of hand.
“I honestly don’t think so. The idea that he has of Snow is entirely his own, and doesn’t necessarily coincide with mine”.
As interesting remark, especially with Martin pushing lately to define the books a separate from the series. Though, as book readers know, aging up Jon Snow by about a decade, as the show has done, made him an entirely different character than on the page from the beginning, even if the motivations of the character (and the plot points) have mostly remained the same. Still, it’s interesting that Harington is so certain his portrayal of Snow is not the same as Martin’s idea of the character.We’ll have to see if his choices on screen diverge from the books once The Winds of Winter finally arrives.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/05/15/kit-harington-discusses-his-take-on-jon-snow-versus-the-books/
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