Kit Harington: Playing Jon Snow Was ‘Difficult’ Since the ‘Game of Thrones’ Character Was Too ‘Perfect’

Kit Harington is hanging up his hat as being typecast as do-gooders.

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Ever since playing Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones,” Harington has opted instead to skew away from “morally kind of perfect” characters. And as the actor returns to “Game of Thrones” network HBO for “Industry,” he is finally admitting just how “difficult” it was to be Jon Snow during the Emmy-winning series.

“Jon Snow was wonderful, I loved him, but he was sometimes tricky to play because he was morally kind of perfect, which is difficult to play sometimes,” Harington told The Hollywood Reporter .

There is no moral high ground for Harington’s new character, the morally ambiguous green energy company founder Henry Muck, as he joins “Industry” Season 3 .

“It was fun coming on board something that you’ve seen, that you enjoy, that you’re a fan of,” Harington said of being cast in the series. “I’d not done that before and it’s a bit geeky. You step into a world that you know and you’re like, ‘Ooh, I’m excited to be here.'”

He continued, “I think there will be no doubt in the audience’s mind that Henry Muck is not morally just at all, he really isn’t. The question is whether they like him, whether they care for him, whether they care about him, and understand that those shaky moral foundations have arrived for a reason. And that’s the aim.”

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The third season of “Industry” premiered at the 2024 ATX TV Festival and debuts on Max August 12.

As for the fate of Harington’s beloved Jon Snow, the news is a bit frostier: It turns out his pitched spinoff series back from 2022 fell through the ice.

“Currently, it’s off the table, because we all couldn’t find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough,” Harington confirmed to ScreenRant in April 2024. “So, we decided to lay down tools with it for the time being. There may be a time in the future where we return to it, but at the moment, no. It’s firmly on the shelf. ”

Harington continued that because the series was in development for years, he did not want to publicly discuss it until he knew for certain whether or not it would move forward.

“I hadn’t really ever spoken about it, because it was in development,” Harington said. “I didn’t want it leaked out that it was being developed, and I didn’t want the thing to happen where people kind of start theorizing, getting either excited about it or hating the idea of it, when it may never happen. Because in development, you look at every angle, and you see whether it’s worth it.”