14 DAY TRIAL // Kit Harington, who famously plays Jon Snow who “knows nothing” on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” hates it when you look at him and all you see is a hunk. He also hates it when people pass him in the street and then take out their phones to take his picture, he says in a new interview with The Guardian.
Welcome to celebrity-dom, Kit!
Being a celebrity is hard
With the newest season of GoT now airing on HBO, Kit and other members of the principal cast have been doing plenty of interviews to promote the show. Not that it needed any more promoting, since it’s the most popular project in scripted programming in a very long time, but every little bit helps.
However, Kit also has a new movie coming out soon, “Spooks: The Greater Good,” for which you will find a trailer embedded below. The Guardian interview is probably meant to bring some awareness to this one, but he still had to take a few GoT-related questions.
His life changed considerably when the show, based on George R.R. Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” novels, became a hit. For one thing, Kit became a celebrity, and either because he didn’t expect audiences to react this positively to GoT or because he really didn’t seek fame along with an acting career, he found it surprising.
He still finds it so, and not necessarily in a good way, he admits.
“Whatever the project, whether I believe in it creatively or not, whether I am getting up at 5am for a 17-hour shoot, the acting never feels like work… It’s all this… This is the work. The selling of it. People taking pictures of you in the street as if you were a rare bird of prey. I understand when you’re in a big show and you look like you do, people want to show their mate on Instagram or whatever. But sometimes it feels like I’m a beautiful sunrise… or a dying dog,” the actor explains.
He is not the first and he will certainly not be the last to complain about the amount of unwanted attention someone from the industry gets once their project makes it big time. Then again, having gotten into the industry by choice, he should have probably expected this to happen.
He’s not a hunk, stop objectifying him
Harington has been getting considerable media attention in recent months and not just because of the latest developments on GoT.
For instance, he told reporters that he felt objectified whenever someone told him he was a hunk or asked him how it felt to be considered a heartthrob, and explained why it was so infuriating for him to be asked about his curly hair.
Ironically, it was Kit who first attracted attention to his hair, by saying in several older interviews (back when he was promoting the box office stinker “Pompeii”) that he was contractually bound not to cut his Jon Snow hair.
Comparing himself to a beautiful sunrise, even as a joke, won’t make people stop talking about his good looks.
