Kit Harington thinks his kids will ‘never’ watch ‘Game of Thrones’: ‘Deeply uncomfortable’
You know nothing, Jon Snow’s kids.
Kit Harington said he doesn’t think his and wife Rose Leslie’s two children will ever be fans of “Game of Thrones” — the series where the couple met and fell in love.
“I don’t think they’ll wanna watch ‘Game of Thrones,’ ” the 37-year-old actor told “E! News” at the Season 3 premiere of his HBO show “Industry” in New York on Tuesday.
“I absolutely guarantee you they’ll probably never wanna see that show,” he added.
Harington played Jon Snow on the hit fantasy TV series, which ran from 2011 to 2019.
The show introduced him to Leslie, 37, who played the wildling Ygritte. The character was killed off during Season 4.
The couple married in June 2018 at Leslie’s ancestral castle in Scotland. They have two children together, a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter.
Despite the sweet love story, Harington said he thinks his kids will “be deeply uncomfortable” if they watch their parents in the Emmy Award-winning series.
That could be because of Harington and Leslie’s steamy sex scene in a cave.
“I don’t think they’re gonna wanna watch anything I’m in. I really don’t,” Harington said. “I think it’s gonna be one of those sadnesses that I’ll be like, ‘Hey, look at this thing I was in 20 years ago.’ And they’ll be like, ‘Dad, no.’ “
But Harington did have positive things to say about the “Game of Thrones” universe, which includes the prequel shows “House of the Dragon,” which just wrapped its second season, and “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” coming out in 2025.
“I mean, it’s incredible to me and really heartwarming that that whole franchise is continuing,” he said. “I just think it’s brilliant. I think long may it continue.”
Harington previously talked about meeting his wife on the set of the show at HBO’s “GOT” fan convention in December 2022.
“We first met having a costume fitting,” he said. “I remember she offered me a ginger biscuit, and I went, ‘Yes, please!’ I remember coming back home and saying to my best friend like, ‘Oh God, I think I found the one.’ “
“There is nothing better in life than falling in love with the person you are in love with on-screen,” the British star continued. “It’s just astonishing. Sorry to be smushy. But you fall in love and you never get that initial giddy feeling back, but you’ll have moments when you fall in love with each other again. The other day I reminded her of it — every time we think about it we grin.”
Following his run on “Game of Thrones,” it was rumored that Harington was getting his own spinoff show focused on his character Jon Snow, but the project was shelved in April.
“I hadn’t really ever spoken about it, because it was in development,” Harington said in an interview with Screen Rant.
“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.“
Harington said the people involved “look at every angle” to “see whether it’s worth it.”
“Currently, it’s not,” he noted. “Currently, it’s off the table, because we all couldn’t find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough. So, we decided to lay down tools with it for the time being.”
Harington did get the chance to play Jon Snow again to promote the new mobile game “Game of Thrones: Legends.” He tackled the game’s challenges and uttered the iconic line “Winter is coming” in the ad released last month.
