Equipment Harington sends his well-wishes to the solid and crew of “Home of the Dragon” — however the actor says that he does not personally tune in to the present.
Harington spent eight seasons on “Sport of Thrones,” which wrapped up in 2019, as Jon Snow. Whereas selling his new mission, season three of HBO’s “Trade,” the actor advised the Related Press that he needed to take a break from Westeros and “Home of the Dragon.”
“I simply can’t watch it,” Harington mentioned of “Home of the Dragon.” “I feel for me it is simply I’ve spent too lengthy there. And I want all of them the perfect, and I hope, I hear it is great and going very well. However I do not assume I am going to ever watch that present, and I do not assume I am going to watch ‘Sport of Thrones’ once more for a number of years.”
Harington advised Enterprise Insider in August 2021 that he was planning on watching the present to help then co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik, who additionally labored on “Sport of Thrones.” Nevertheless, he knew that it will be an emotional course of to observe a present that reminded him of “Sport of Thrones” whereas not being part of it. He advised Further TV in March 2023 that he had watched among the collection, and although he “cherished” it, it remained troublesome to eat.
Harington is not the one “Sport of Thrones” star who’s averted “Home of the Dragon.” Emilia Clarke, who performed Daenerys Targaryen in all eight seasons of “Sport of Thrones,” advised Selection that she additionally could not watch the prequel.
“I simply can’t do it. It is so bizarre, it is so bizarre, it is so unusual. It is form of like somebody saying, “Do you need to go to this college reunion that is not your yr? You need to return to that college reunion?’ That is form of the way it feels. I am avoiding it.”
Harington advised the Related Press that it had taken a while to place “Sport of Thrones” behind him. At this second in his profession, he mentioned he needed to deal with one other tv character — and he had been impressed with the primary season of “Trade.”
“It felt just like the factor I needed to do was get into doing a full character arc, quite than simply an episode of this, an episode of that, or a film arc. I needed to do a TV character arc once more.”
