Kit Harington Is Now Blabbing His Mouth All Over Town About Jon Snow’s Fate

This post contains spoilers for the most recent episode of Game Of Thrones (and you probably shouldn’t read it if you want to come in totally fresh for next week).

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Kit Harington has spent the past year of his life being literally stalked by reporters and fans, and vehemently denying he knows anything about this season of Game of Thrones. “I’m very dead!” he said. “I keep my hair like this by choice!” he said. “I actually don’t even own a TV, what’s this you’re talking about, no, never heard of it, what, oh, you’re cutting out, byeeeeeeee.” A British talk show host literally electrocuted him and he still didn’t talk.

Of course, after the world saw his eyes burst open at the end of this week’s show, he’s since apologised. “I’d like to say sorry for lying to everyone,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I’m glad that people were upset that he died. I think my biggest fear was that people were not going to care.” But now, squashing much of the ongoing speculation about what state his character will now be in as well as some fan theories about where he’s been, he seems pretty content blabbing about what’s in store for the rest of the season.

Entertainment Weekly released their full cover story with the star online overnight and published this revealing extract along with it:

“At first, I was worried that [Jon would] wake up and he’s the same, back to normal — then there’s no point in that death. He needs to change. There’s a brilliant line when Melisandre asks: ‘What did you see?’ And he says: ‘Nothing, there was nothing at all.’ That cuts right to our deepest fear, that there’s nothing after death. And that’s the most important line in the whole season for me.

Jon’s never been afraid of death, and that’s made him a strong and honourable person. He realises something about his life now: he has to live it, because that’s all there is. He’s been over the line and there’s nothing there. And that changes him. It literally puts the fear of god into him. He’s seen oblivion and that’s got to change somebody in the most fundamental way there is. He doesn’t want to die ever again. But if he does, he doesn’t want to be brought back.”

That may not tell us the full story, but there are a few important things to infer:

1. As opposed to some theories based on other characters who’ve come back from the dead, Jon Snow can talk.

2. He appears to be quite lucid and aware of his previous existence.

3. He won’t go down the same path as Beric Dondarrion, whose being is horrifically whittled away with each resurrection.

4. He hasn’t been spending all this time as a wolf. He probably won’t be a wolf in the future. There will be no Wolf Jon Snow.