Game Of Thrones - The Final Battle

Kit Harington’s first on-screen role found him playing the lead in one of the most successful shows in television history. Nearly a decade later, the British actor is preparing for.

- Tom Lamont

After nine years, 30-odd duels, 67 episodes, a choreographed battle sequence to rival any in Hollywood history, two sex scenes, one on-screen death, one on-screen resurrection and all in all more than 100 extras slaughtered by sword or otherwise, Kit Harington is almost there. Almost finished. When it came to his final day on a properly peopled Game Of Thrones set last July (the long-running HBO drama was about to wrap for everyone except Harington, its star), he huddled up for a final puff among the colleagues he’d smoked with for nearly a decade. Then, ceremonially, acknowledging the end of an era, he quit the cigs. When GQ meets the British actor, in spring 2018, he has one scene of Game Of Thrones left to film. A bit of green-screening, Harington says.

Then he’s freeeeeeee.