'No, God No' — Game of Thrones Actor Kit Harington Says He Spent 10 Years Playing Jon Snow and Doesn't Want to 'Go Anywhere Near It'
http://ign.com/articles/no-god-no-game-of-thrones-actor-kit-harington-says-he-spent-10-years-playing-jon-snow-and-doesnt-want-to-go-anywhere-near-it
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man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 250d
I mean, the story is over. It's not like there's anything else for him to go back to, is there?
scytale@piefed.zip · 44 pts · 250d
If studios can milk even dead characters, how much more for characters that ended up surviving at the end. If there's no story, I'm sure they'll be happy to make one.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 250d
bklyn@piefed.social · 20 pts · 250d
He’s been dead before
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 249d
Did he die again in the end? I honestly have a memory hole in season 8 and much of season 7, despite having watched the entire show twice (the earlier seasons multiple times before that, but I only did a single rewatch after the whole thing was over)
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 249d
bonenode@piefed.social · 26 pts · 250d
higgsboson@piefed.social · 17 pts · 250d
Arya did in the books.
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 250d
think it was a joke about what they said in the show in the kings moot or whatever before declaring him king
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 249d
It clearly was
pachrist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 249d
I feel like I remember seeing a graphic about Ned Stark having more screen time than Bran, despite dying in season 1.
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 250d
This was his response to him coming back to the role for the audiobook. He just did Lockheart in new Harry Potter books so it was a natural question.
normalexit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 249d
They could say the last season wasn't canon and try again, otherwise totally agree.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 250d
They were taking about rebooting the last season I think ?
dkppunk@piefed.social · 5 pts · 250d
I would be ok if they did this and replaced everyone as long as we got a better ending. They can even put name tags on everyone so we know who is who. We got a coffee cup in one episode, I think name tags would be fine.
JessyKenning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 249d
The coffee cup should have a tag too.
degen@midwest.social · 3 pts · 249d
You could tell it was Starbucks, so it kinda did!
dkppunk@piefed.social · 2 pts · 249d
I’d be fine with that!
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 31 pts · 250d
I feel bad for a few of the actors who aren't in eternal denial about the show being a imploded cultural black hole.
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 250d
who?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 250d
starik@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 250d
This just means they haven’t offered him enough yet
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 250d
Kit.. Didn’t Connery ever teach you anything.
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.
bklyn@piefed.social · 5 pts · 250d
A film that Connery should definitely have said Dr. No to
kinkles@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 250d
and by it i mean my peanits
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 250d
He's super keen to be in Harry Potter tho
njm1314@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 250d
"I can accept being a transphobe but I draw the line at bad writing and plot structure."
Kit Harington probably.
Dionysus@leminal.space · 13 pts · 250d
Having watched the last season, you have got to at least understand his point.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 249d
probably doesnt want to be typecasted, alot of actors are unfortunately typecasted.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 5 pts · 250d
I'd bet a substantial amount of money that eventually he will play the part for another pile of money. Probably not for a few years though unless other work dries up. It's not like he was making Friends level money or would ever make anything like those actors make even today in residuals.
Just takes a story set in the future after the events of GoT and a desire for more spending money. Articles mention his net worth being around 10-15m, which is enough to never work if you're content living a upper middle class life... but not enough to really live anything remotely extravagantly.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 250d
Isn't his wife (also from GoT) super rich?
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 1 pts · 249d
She’s no richer than Kit Harrington.
If you’re referring to the fact that her family owns a castle…that’s not worth too much, weighed with her acting bucks.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 1 pts · 250d
4m net worth?
At one point I did the math and dividends from 4k in dividend stocks gets you like 100k/year. Hardly “super rich” when houses and condos are practically a million bucks in HCOL
Lfrith@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 249d
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 1 pts · 249d
I don't even know what your point is. Sure, almost everyone in the world would be set for life with 4m. It's still only enough to provide means for a very modest life with dividends in cities like Boston, LA, NYC...
We usually successful performers burn through their monies quick because with no need to work, you can blow cash REAL quick. Few are so disciplined as to live on something like 4m forever if they weren't brought up with wealth and the understanding to live frugally.
skibidi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 249d
Generally the 'safe withdrawal rate' for investments is 4% per year. At this rate, the principal will grow a bit above normal inflation, and you'll have basically a guaranteed inflation-adjusted salary.
Someone worth 10M, with maybe 8M of that in liquid investments (i.e. 2M in real estate) could clear about $320K every year. It's good money, but like you said it isn't unfathomable wealth. It is 'fuck you' money, though, where basically anyone can live comfortably without having to take work they don't want to do.
The key benefit is the money is free - it doesn't need to be saved for retirement because the nest egg is already secured, you already own the house and don't have mortgage, any extra money from an external salary just increases the principal, etc.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 249d
Lfrith@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 249d
degen@midwest.social · 4 pts · 249d
Make way for the TRUE KING OF THE NORTH!
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 3 pts · 249d
“They cancelled the spin-off I said I was super into doing, so now I’m going to pretend I never wanted to do it. As soon as they offer me enough money, or just offer me another spinoff…enough time will suddenly have passed and I’ll be super excited to do it again.”
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 249d
Wow, was it really ten years?
dan69@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Just like how I can’t imagine how and why Jon Ham in a comedy movie..
flandish@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 250d
no no you had a popular role and people recognize you and you never again have to worry about money. must he hard.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 27 pts · 250d
I mean, I totally understand ripping on rich people complaining about certain things, but... this is an acting preference. Do actors not get to have preferences in the roles they play?
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 250d
I saw a recent interview with Jason Biggs who spoke very candidly about the career missteps he made. He thought after American Pie that he was now a star and a leading man and any other dirty comedy or ensemble piece was beneath him, then by the time he had failed enough times to accept the dirty comedy, he couldn't book those roles anymore either. Then he was offered television but thought that television has a stigma his movie career wouldn't be able to recover from, and that line of thinking lost him the starring role in How I Met Your Mother, a show that went on for a decade and made the cast millions. Then he tried for several TV shows and the best he could get was a side role on Orange is the New Black.
So yeah he's allowed to have his preferences. Looking a gift horse in the mouth has its consequences, though. If he's living comfortably and is happy never to be in the spotlight again then more power to him, but something tells me he will likely change his tune down the road.
qualia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 250d
Actors interested in their craft will take any job that challenges them regardless of its marketability in order to build a body of work over time.
It easy for me as an outsider to say this (moreso in hindsight) but Biggs should've realized there are far more character actor roles (see: Dafoe, Oldman, Swinton, Martindale) than leading actor ones.
So while I haven't seen Biggs in anything for decades, meanwhile Dano and Plemons are drinking his milkshake. They drink it up!!
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 5 pts · 250d
That sounds like he was a prideful idiot.
John Snow is just saying he doesn't want to be John Snow. Not that he's above other roles.
Very, very different scenarios.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
Slightly related. I know the sherminator was a waiter last I saw.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 249d
Which is fine, as long as it's honest work.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 250d
Having a choice and making bad choices can be separate things. You'll note the question was about the former.
antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 250d
This is a really weird take
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 250d
get ahold of yourself buddy
lath@piefed.social · 2 pts · 250d
A somewhat popular study says a long term position of power damages the brain's ability to feel empathy. Are you in such a position of power?
qualia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Link me?
lath@piefed.social · 1 pts · 250d
Yeah, can't find it. It was a study about CEOs posted somewhat recently. Have something else instead, more neutral.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/powerful-mindset-psychology