Kit Harington on his films: ‘I really regretted them, and I will not do it again’
Rachel Hickman
Updated on March 09, 2026
As we learned last month, Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are really happening. There were rumors about them for years, basically ever since their characters (Jon Snow and Ygritte) fell in love on Game of Thrones. I do think they started dating years ago, but that it was an on-and-off thing for a while. But they’re “on” right now. And Kit is actually surprisingly sweet about how he fell in love with Rose. Kit covers the latest issue of L’Uomo Vogue – you can see his full profile here. He chats about GoT, Rose and doing Doctor Faustus on the London stage. Some SPOILERS for Game of Thrones, if you’ve been living under a rock! Some highlights:
Maintaining the “Jon Snow is dead” story: “Having to maintain absolute secrecy for so long has been a formidable test for understanding the psychology of other people on the basis of assumptions made. What I realized is that many people feel they have a much stronger connection with Jon Snow than I do”.
He likes pulling his Jon Snow hair back into a ponytail: “It actually helps me to blend in, to not be recognized on the street”
His forays into film: “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.”
Doing stage work: “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”.
He’s superstitious about performing on stage: “I kiss a crucifix three times, I blow kisses at the photos of my parents hanging in my dressing room, and I kiss the stage floor three times… The diagnosis is clear, I can see it myself: I’m an obsessive-compulsive…”
He doesn’t watch a lot of movies: “I love cinema, obviously, but I’m not one who sees a lot of films. I don’t like entering the imagination of someone else when I’m working on my own imagination. I experience it as an intrusion, as an overload of work. I dedicate so much time already to work in this period that I have to feel like few free hours I have are exclusively mine. What I do outside of the Duke of York’s? I go to the gym, take photos, mostly portraits, very black and white. Nothing exceptional.”
He owns his own home in Islington: “A real house, with 5 bedrooms, bought with my earnings from Game of Thrones. I am fully aware of what a privilege it is to own a house like this at age 29, when virtually all of my peers in London would feel lucky to own a studio flat.”
His favorite memory from filming Game of Thrones: “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…”
Come on, that was sweet! Admit it! I’m the first person to roll my eyes at SadFace Kit, but hearing him talk about falling in love with Rose in Iceland is really sweet. And yes, he sounds borderline OCD, although I think it’s probably more of stage-actor superstition thing, and just his little routine to calm himself. Anyway, this is one of the better interviews I’ve read with him – he even admits that he’s got it pretty good, there’s no whining about being a hunk, and the interview isn’t littered with lies. Yay! As for his “regrets” about his film work… was it Kit being opportunistic, or were those crappy films (Pompeii!) the only scripts he was offered?
Photos courtesy of L’Uomo Vogue, WENN.
