Equipment Harington provides a candid response about taking part in Jon Snow once more within the Sport of Thrones universe. Harington performed Jon in all eight of the Sport of Thrones seasons, which have been launched on HBO from 2011-2019.
In an interview with Selection for Audible’s full-cast Harry Potter audiobook collection, the place Harington voices Gilderoy Lockhart, he was requested who he thinks ought to voice Jon if there’s a new Sport of Thrones audiobook. Harington doesn’t present any names and as an alternative emphasizes that he doesn’t wish to go close to the half once more after taking part in Jon for a decade. Take a look at his response under:
No, god no. I don’t wanna go wherever close to it. I spent 10 years doing that. Thanks, I’m alright.
Sport of Thrones was the breakout position that ceaselessly modified Harington’s profession, and he met his future spouse Rose Leslie whereas filming the collection. On the identical time, Harington has beforehand spoken concerning the toll of taking part in Jon Snow and the way it contributed to struggles with psychological well being and alcoholism.
Past merely not desirous to play Jon once more after a decade of doing so, the affect of the expertise on his psychological well being provides extra context to why Harington is so averse to reprising the character, even for an audiobook.
Regardless of Harington’s feedback, a Jon Snow spinoff collection with him returning was beforehand in growth. George R.R. Martin introduced that the venture was within the works in June 2022.
In April 2024, Harington revealed that the collection had been shelved over an lack of ability to search out the appropriate artistic route. HBO govt Casey Bloys shared in November 2024 that the present won’t be totally lifeless, although, suggesting that “Perhaps we’ll attempt once more.”
Whereas the Jon Snow spinoff has been shelved, future Sport of Thrones sequels have been teased by Martin on the 2025 Iceland Noir Competition, the place he stated that “a sequel or two” is in growth at HBO. No matter what the sequels find yourself being about, it appears unlikely that Harington will return based mostly on his latest feedback about taking part in the character once more.
For now, the franchise is specializing in prequel collection based mostly on Martin’s present supply materials, with Home of the Dragon season 3 and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 each releasing in 2026.
In Harington’s post-Sport of Thrones profession, he has performed Dane Whitman within the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Eternals, Sir Henry Muck in HBO’s Trade, and the villainous Finn Clarke in Apple TV’s The Household Plan 2. He’s returning for Trade season 4 and reunited with Sport of Thrones co-star Sophie Turner for the upcoming Gothic horror movie The Dreadful.
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2011 – 2019-00-00
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David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
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David Nutter, Alan Taylor, D.B. Weiss, David Benioff