VIDEO: Spooky Kit Harington back from dead in Game of Thrones, talks about new film Spooks

Kit Harington admits he is a daredevil doing his own stunts

INTERVIEW: 'Game of Thrones' Jon Snow was a nightmare when I was filming Spooks,' Kit Harrington tells us as he admits that he loves playing at being 'hunky and heroic' every day.

 

Jon Snow may well be miraculously back from the dead in Game of Thrones.

Harington has been spotted on set in full Night's Watch costume, setting fansites ablaze.

 

But the actor reveals that his famous character was a nightmare for him when he was trying to film Brit spy thriller Spooks: The Greater Good.

'I ruined so many takes with my face on buses going round London every few minutes so we had to keep calling 'Cut,'" he says.

"It went from being funny to really not funny quite quickly, especially for me."

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Fans, and doubtless the laid back actor himself, may be thrilled that he is back in full furs and leathers, after he was Harington was spotted filming game of Thrones again recently.

But the man action star reveals how much he enjoyed a chance to star in a modern spy film like Spooks: The Greater Good.

I jumped through a glass window for real: I got cut up pretty bad

Kit Harington

"Spooks had an exciting script, it had pace, it was fun. But also I’ve spent a lot of time in a fantasy realm and this way I could hold a gun and to read a script and speak dialogue which is a bit more relevant to who I am and who I am in life; it’s quite refreshing. 

 “I can’t run around with a cloak and sword (in Game of Thrones),” he admits.

 

Harington relished the freedom of action scenes in modern clothes in Spooks

“There was a lot of running in this film. I can move. I’ve got fight scenes that are very contemporary and I really liked that.”

The 28-year-old also admitted that he sometimes gets a bit too carried away doing his own stunts – and terrifies us with the tale of getting badly cut jumping through a glass window.

 

Not that he was always free to leap around....

"I like to do my own stuff, I’m a bit foolhardy with it really, I’m always like 'I’ll do that,'” he says.

"There was only one thing I couldn’t do – the falling out of a window onto a table.

"But I did the jump out of the window, it was fun and exciting. 

"I jumped through a glass window for real; I got cut up pretty bad."

  

Kit Harington and Peter Firth filming Spooks

But before his legions of fans come rushing with to kiss him better, the actor reveals he was joking and that it was a CGI window, after all.  

Even so, his character of Will still shares common traits with his troubled Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch in Game of Thrones. Both are dashingly brave, driven by honour and the determination to work for the (what else?) greater good.

The 28-year-old has already spoken out about his dislike of being seen as the latest himbo pin-up, so I tentatively asked him if his run of playing hunky and heroic characters came naturally to him.

“I walk out every morning and go, ‘I’m feeling really hunky and heroic today’. It’s my natural state. I love feeling hunky and heroic,” he deadpans.

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Will is an angry young man when we meet him at the start of the film. Like his father before him , he gets drawn into the complicated webs of the British Secret Service. The whole operation is headed up, as always, by Harry, played by Peter Firth, reprsing his role as the stoic stalwart of the original smash hit BBC series.

This time around they are dealing with a terrifying internal threat as extremist terrorist plot to blow up central London.

It's a highly charged, action-pavcked scenario and Harington stresses his love of Will's physicality and the fact that he's not a clean-cut hero.

"He’s the thug really, he’s good with his fists and guns and getting information," he says.

 

The actor believes that the film's plausibility is one of its greatest selling points.

“I think it’s like if you took the last ten years of what could have gone on behind the scenes and took all the paperwork out of it, all l the boring stuff,” he laughs.

“It doesn’t treat an audience like idiots.”

SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD IS AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD ON 28TH SEPTEMBER, COURTESY OF ENTERTAINMENT ONE