During a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Kit Harington reveals that he is no longer interested in hero roles, this after giving life for so many years to Jon Snow in the hit HBO series ‘Game of Thrones‘, where his character was the most beloved by the public for his good heart.
For that reason, the renowned actor will do something different this time, playing a villain in ‘Blood for Dust’ and confessing, “I rarely get the opportunity to play the Rickys of this world, the antagonistic dirtbag types, and I was excited to be presented with that opposite an actor like Scoot [McNairy]“.
Kit Harington added, “If I look at the roles I’ve taken since playing an out-and-out hero in Game of Thrones, I have to admit there seems to be some sort of pushback about playing a hero” and continued, “I’m not so interested in heroic roles, and if I am, they have to be pretty anti-hero-ish“.
Kit Harington says "there seems to be some sort of pushback about playing a hero" in his career after Jon Snow.
"I’m not so interested in heroic roles. My heart goes out to people playing heroes. They’re f*cking hard to play and to make interesting. It is more fascinating as an… pic.twitter.com/fAqo1uVvS4
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Harington said that while “at the moment, I just find it more interesting looking for the f*cked-up people“, he makes it clear that bringing a heroic character to life is by no means easy; “[Playing] a guy who is doing all the right things and is driven by being good, it’s harder to do that“.
