Kit Harington

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🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Even if you haven’t kept up with the HBO show “Game of Thrones” since its debut in 2011, there’s no avoiding the cultural phenomenon based on the books of George R.R. Martin. At the center of it all is the heroic Jon Snow, played by Kit Harington. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks with Harington about the show's highly anticipated final season and what it will be like to say goodbye to the series that launched his career, introduced him to his wife and changed his life forever.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:05.0	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along with us and a special welcome this week
0:10.2	to all you game of Thrones geeks and I use that term absolutely of endearmate.
0:16.2	John Snow himself, kid Harrington is my guest this week on the podcast.
0:20.8	We got together at the end of a long press tour as he prepared for the launch of season
0:26.8	8 on HBO.
0:28.0	Perhaps the most anticipated, most debated, most talked about, most speculated about series
0:33.2	finale of all time.
0:35.7	Can I say that?
0:36.7	Maybe it is.
0:37.7	Six episodes coming up game of Thrones on HBO by the time you've listened to this, maybe
0:41.5	you've already seen episode one.
0:44.1	He couldn't say much.
0:46.1	The HBO has the lips of the actors, the crew, the cast, everybody so tightly sealed that
0:52.5	I had to dig and pry.
0:53.7	I got a couple things out of it for you.
0:55.4	We had to stop a couple of times.
0:56.8	You'll hear kit ask the publicists if he's allowed to talk about that.
1:00.8	That's how seriously they take this series.
1:03.0	Man, it's been a decade long journey for him.
1:05.4	The cool thing about kid Harrington, which I didn't fully realize that I started digging
1:08.8	in on his background is game of Thrones was his first job on screen.
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