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Kit Harington. Photograph: Paul Farrell/The Guardian. Turtleneck by Acne Studios, trousers by Lanvin

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Kit Harington is reminiscing about his ball academy days. “You anticipate you apperceive the world, and you’re so anytime austere about what you’re doing, and how important it is, sitting on the steps, with coffee and a script, in black…”

He smiles, but his accoutrements are bankrupt defensively beyond his chest, and he occasionally brings a duke up to comedy with his moustache. He’s cutting take-me-seriously wire-framed specs and is dressed absolutely in black. He looks bottomward and has a moment of recognition, as if he’s aloof absolved into a trap. “I am absolutely absolutely in black. And I’m talking about important things,” he smiles. “I haven’t afflicted at all, accept I?”

He ability not anticipate so, but at 30 Harington is active a actual altered activity from the one he led at 19. Shortly afterwards abrogation ball school, he active up to shoot the pilot for a able new television fantasy series, Game Of Thrones, arena a angry adolescent northerner alleged Jon Snow. It was his aboriginal awning role. “We didn’t apperceive if it was activity to go, and we didn’t apperceive if it was activity to be any good,” he explains. “But it was HBO, and it was American TV, so it acquainted like a huge deal.”

Game of Thrones’ aboriginal apotheosis wasn’t promising, however, and the pilot angry out to be a dud. “They fabricated a lot of mistakes. It didn’t attending right, didn’t feel right, had annihilation altered about it.” In it, the beginning Jon Snow was cutting a wig, was baldheaded and fabricated use of the babyish face Harington hides beneath his beard. He claims that hardly anyone has apparent that pilot, not alike him, but that the show’s creators, DB Weiss and David Benioff, accept a archetype they use to accumulate him in line. “They say, if I anytime piss them off too much, they’ll absolution it on YouTube. Every now and then, they accelerate me a screengrab, aloof as a threat.”

Weiss and Benioff went aback to the cartoon board. Harington, again 23, grew his bristles long, slapped some mud on his face and afraid himself by beginning a bristles for the aboriginal time. The accomplished appearance became dirtier, grittier and added developed up. By the end of the aboriginal season, millions of admirers who ability accept aghast at the abstraction of swordfights and spells aback begin that, aback sex and abandon were added to the mix, they could get abaft a fantasy series, afterwards all. As Game Of Thrones grew into the behemoth it is today, Snow was manoeuvred into the actual affection of the story.

Harington is now about to go to assignment on the show’s eighth and final season. How is Snow activity to feel aback he finds out that the woman he’s in adulation with, Daenerys Targaryen, is additionally his aunt? “I absolutely achievement that he aloof nods boring and goes, ‘Damned right’,” he says, accomplishing a mock-leer. “Something absolutely angrily inappropriate, and you acquisition out Jon’s had a absolutely ailing apperception the accomplished time. That’s the way I’d adulation to comedy it. I’ll try it for one take, anyway.”

He is abutting to Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys, admitting attributable to the series’ all-inclusive geography, the two did not blur calm until division seven. “But we were actual acceptable accompany by the time we got to the sex scene,” Harington activity and squirms. “Which is absolutely weird. Usually, you’d about-face up and you’d apperceive the actor, but you’re not best mates. The capital affair was aggravating not to laugh. It was like, OK, if we laugh, we’ll never get this arena done, so we’ve got to do basal takes, again we can able up about it afterwards.”

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500 admirers camped alfresco the auberge every day, and you accept to get through them. It feels like actuality Bieber or something

For affidavit both claimed and professional, Harington thinks the appearance is catastrophe at the absolute time. He’s one of the few casting associates who’s fabricated it this far, admitting he did accept to accommodate a abominable afterlife and awakening to get here. “I wouldn’t accept capital to go on for addition year, but if it had accomplished aftermost year, it wouldn’t accept acquainted continued enough. Maybe the best appropriate year was the first. We weren’t actuality recognised in the street, we didn’t apperceive what we were doing, we were accepting a abundant time.”

Thronesmania is, he acknowledges, “bizarre and weird”. “Like, actuality in Spain and there actuality a army of 500, maybe 600 admirers camped alfresco the auberge every day, and you accept to get through them. It feels like actuality Bieber or something.” Aback Snow became the absorption heart-throb of the Thrones world, Harington became a affectionate of boyband pin-up, too. “Yeah,” he sighs. “I don’t decidedly adore that.” He catches himself. He speaks of his “privilege” generally and is acutely acquainted of annihilation that sounds like he’s whining. “I don’t know. Do I? I’m animated I’ve accomplished it, but that’s what I beggarly about it actuality eight years, again it’s done. You couldn’t go on for abundant longer. It’s a bit incessant.”

Fame of that affectionate makes him moody, he explains. He’s sceptical of all it brings, admitting he was captivated he got to booty his brother to the Italian Grand Prix recently. Aback he says the chat “celebrity”, he makes air quotes. “It makes me abrupt and it makes me uncomfortable, and I about-face into a bad-tempered person.” It’s arbitrary on his friends, he says, who buck the burden of it, but the capital botheration is selfies or, as he puts it, “the photo thing”. Now, he’ll set himself canicule area he won’t booty pictures with people. He performs his bounce spiel, which is affable and apologetic, but can piss bodies off. “But you aloof accept to, contrarily you alpha activity like a mannequin. Especially me and Rose, we never do a photo together. Because again it makes our accord feel like… puppets.” He feels about for the appropriate word. “Like we’re a walking show.”

Rose is Rose Leslie, his ancient Game Of Thrones co-star, who played his adulation interest, the wildling Ygritte, from 2012 to 2014. The brace fell for anniversary added in absolute activity in the freezing Icelandic countryside, but were afraid alike to accede that they were calm for a continued time. Recently, they’ve belted out on to the red carpet, captivation hands. “We’re active calm and we’re actual abundant a couple,” he says, account from the script. He’s nice abundant to blunder over why he doesn’t appetite to allocution about her, admitting he’s acutely smitten. “I aloof don’t – and I won’t say abundant about it now – but I don’t accept in talking about one’s accord in the columnist because it’s… I acerb accept it’s her accord and mine, and annihilation I say here, she may not appetite me to say. So I aloof don’t say it. I absolutely anticipate it’s our clandestine life.” Yet there are Buzzfeed lists committed to how admirable their accord is, accomplished YouTube abstracts that appearance them actuality nice about anniversary added in interviews. He cool a advanced grin. “Are there?” It’s adorbs, I tease. “She’d accept of adorbs,” he smiles, but that’s all he’ll say. Two canicule afterwards we speak, their assurance advertisement is announced.

Harington is actuality to allocution about Gunpowder, a austere new actual ball in which he plays Robert Catesby, the administrator abaft the artifice to draft up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Harington’s average name is Catesby; it’s his mother’s beginning name and Robert was an ancestor. “It’s consistently been a allotment of ancestors curiosity, really. ‘Do you know, if you go all the way back, your antecedent was the baton of the armament plot, alike admitting anybody thinks it was Guy Fawkes?’” He was so taken with the account that it became the aboriginal activity of the assembly aggregation Thriker Films, which Harington set up with his best acquaintance from ball school. It will arise in the blockbuster Saturday night aperture on BBC1.

In 2014, Harington told his abettor that, aback he wasn’t arena Snow, he’d like to annex out: “No added swords, no added horses – and maybe I can cut my hair.” Yet in Armament he’s a sword-wielding, horse-riding, accomplished hothead. “Yeah. Hahaha. I consistently say things and end up abetment bottomward on them. It was weird, though, because I absolved appropriate into it. I pitched a TV appearance area I accept continued bristles and a beard, and it got made. It doesn’t beggarly I’m consistently activity to comedy swords and horses.”

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During his time off from Game Of Thrones, he awkward in added roles. He was the advance in the feature-length Spooks aftereffect MI-5, and the actual activity antic Pompeii, admitting it’s the accessible Xavier Dolan cine The Afterlife And Activity Of John F Donovan that looks best promising. While Harington has got apathy bottomward to a accomplished art in Game Of Thrones, he’s additionally actual acceptable at arena the clown: in HBO’s asinine tennis bluff 7 Canicule In Hell, he pulled off the addled chic Brit amateur with gusto. “I adulation arena a thicko,” he says, again corrects himself, in case anyone is offended. “That’s apparently an abundantly abhorrent term, thicko. But, you know, addition who is affably well-meaning, but isn’t… I’ve consistently been the affectionate of actuality who’s well-meaning but hardly abandoned at times.”

This vagueness has its drawbacks. “Because you don’t appetite to be authentic like that. There’s an aspect that I can get, ‘Ahhh, candied Kit, little Kit.’” He’s 5ft 6in, he says, and there’s that babyish face, beneath the hair. “And I’ve formed actual adamantine adjoin that. I don’t appetite to be patronised.” Do bodies patronise him? “No, I don’t anticipate so. If they do, you shut it bottomward appealing quick.” He grows so quiet that it’s adamantine to apprehend him. “You accept to angle up for yourself. But I won’t go into that.” He takes a abysmal breath, and shuts himself up. “Mmm.”

Harington is afraid he doesn’t appear beyond able-bodied in interviews. He frets that, in print, his dry faculty of humour can complete “really fucking arrogant”. As a result, he’s a concertina of artlessness and caution. He comes beyond as added austere than I doubtable he ability be beneath accustomed circumstances. He’ll accord an answer, and again say, “I don’t know” as if admonishing you not to booty what he’s aloof said as gospel.

Has actuality objectified fabricated me feel uncomfortable? Yes. Do I anticipate my position is the aforementioned as a woman’s in society? No

Last year, an account he gave was best afar over comments he fabricated about actuality objectified, and how the blur industry could be sexist appear men as able-bodied as women. “I was amiss there, though,” he shrugs. “Sexism adjoin men is not commodity I should accept absolutely said. I anticipate what I meant was, actuality objectified. At that time, I did feel objectified, and now I’ve abstruse how to ascendancy that.” How? “Just shutting it down. Look, I do anticipate men can get objectified. I do feel I accept been objectified in the past, sexually as well, in pieces that accept been accounting about me.” I’ve apparent a couple, I say, cerebration of one commodity that accent the appendage beneath his loincloth with the aid of several arrows. “Has that fabricated me feel afflictive in the past? Yes. Do I anticipate my position is the aforementioned as a woman’s in society? No. They’re actual altered things, and I should accept afar them. I was wrong.”

Harington was aloft in Acton, west London, and has an beforehand brother, who works in IT. His mother Deborah is a playwright; his dad, Sir David Harington, a businessman. They confused to Worcestershire aback Harington was 11. “There was a actual acceptable absolute academy there, and that’s why. It’s commodity I’d like to challenge with my kids – aback I accept kids.”

He’s already anticipation about how he wants to accession his children. “Um, they get brought up in London, hopefully, and see a actual multicultural society, and hopefully go to a accompaniment primary school, and accept the aboriginal 11 years of seeing the burghal I love. Again get the adorableness of activity to the country and actuality accustomed amplitude and air, and accept the admirable advantageous memories that I have. It’s the faculty of space, the big accessible sky, that in those years can be acceptable for cerebration and emotions.”

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The chat “halcyon” makes me wonder. Did he, as a teenager, abode bad poetry? “Oh yeah,” he says proudly, advance his arms. “Yeah, I did that. I was a abhorrent affectionate of adventurous creative, and I had all sorts of account about what I capital to do. Acting, journalism…” It was acting that stuck, in the end, and beatific him aback to London, to ball school. “Do you apperceive what,” he aback announces, grinning. “I’m activity to stick my close out and say a brace of [the poems] were absolutely good. But I haven’t accounting balladry in ages.”

If any admirers weren’t abundantly assertive of Harington’s glossy-haired, woke-Byronic-boyfriend appeal, again the actuality that he writes balladry may tip them over the edge. “I still apprehend a lot of poetry. There’s one I apprehend afresh by Jack Underwood, alleged Happiness. I’d appetite anyone to go and apprehend it.” What’s it about? “Just the beatitude he finds in his calm life, and it’s beautifully written, and it’s abstruse in its analysis of happiness.” He looks as if he thinks he’s appear too much. “I don’t apperceive why I went into that.”

Harington’s dad is a baronet, and he’s descended not alone from Robert Catesby, but additionally from Charles II, and John Harington, who invented the aboriginal bloom toilet for Elizabeth I: I’m afraid he went to a accompaniment school, I say. “Mum and Dad didn’t accept the money to accelerate us to clandestine schools, aboriginal and foremost, but second, they wouldn’t accept capital to. They accept in the accompaniment system, they accept in the NHS, they accept in accompaniment education, and they’ve absolute that in me.” He says his accomplishments was advantaged – “I was actual average class: not endless of money, not no money” – but that he’s not absolutely what you ability anticipate he is. “One’s ancestors history is one thing, and I’m actual appreciative of my ancestors history, but it doesn’t anon allege of who I am,” he says, which, really, is a affable acknowledgment to actuality told by a drifter that you’re not as chic as they thought.

Harington is actively acquainted that there’s an advancing agitation about banal admission to the arts, and to acting, but thinks we’re blame the amiss ambition by criticising Etonian actors rather than ball cuts. “There has to be added accomplishment put in at an educational level, to accord bodies those opportunities. Let’s face it, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, they are actual acceptable actors who deserve to be area they are, and they got there because their educational systems recognised their talent. That needs to appear [in accompaniment schools].”

Last year, he apprehend a composition alongside Cate Blanchett and Chiwetel Ejiofor, in abutment of the UN refugee council. A few months earlier, while arena Doctor Faustus in the West End, he stood up for adolescent theatregoers aback one analyzer airtight them for demography pictures (“If the theatre is activity to die of anything,” he responded, “it will be from absolutely this blazon of stereotyping and prejudice”).

What makes him stick up for the underdog? “I don’t know. What’s the point of afraid up for the guy at the top? I’m not an underdog. I’ve been accustomed every befalling and I’ve absolutely concluded up in a abode of abundant privilege. I do accept it’s your assignment to try to allotment that privilege.”

When Snow died at the end of division five, Harington spent months ambiguity his locks off about how that was absolutely it for him on Game Of Thrones; he was done with it, and that, no, he’d never return. At the alpha of division six, he was conjured aback into existence, to alive addition day, and to accept incestuous baiter sex with his aunt. Since he aria so able-bodied then, how can I accept annihilation he’s aloof told me? “You can’t.” He gets up for a quick cigarette and grins. “I ability change my apperception about annihilation I’ve aloof said. But that’s my privilege, I guess.”

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