Tag: Kit Harington

  • Kit Harington, Scoot McNairy, Josh Lucas to star in action thriller ‘Blood for Dust’ 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actors Scoot McNairy, Josh Lucas and Kit Harington are set to play the lead roles in filmmaker Rod Blackhurst’s action thriller movie “Blood for Dust”.

    According to Variety, the film is written by David Ebeltoft, from a story he co-wrote with Blackhurst. It centers on former friends — Cliff (McNairy), a traveling salesman struggling to make a living, and Ricky (Harington), an illegal-weapons dealer making a lot of money — who reconnect one day.

    Hoping to make some quick cash, Cliff agrees to partner with the violent Ricky, who is expanding his business to include cross-state drug and gun deliveries for John, a mid-level American cartel boss (Lucas).

    “Reluctantly he agrees to retrofit his beat-up station wagon to carry dozens of kilos of drugs. When Ricky turns a simple exchange into a bloodbath to eliminate the competition, Cliff is forced to grapple with a harsh new reality,” the plotline reads.

    Noah Lang, Mark Fasano and Bernard Kira are producing the project. Executive producers are Ford Corbett and Ebeltoft.

    “While ‘Blood for Dust’ is a story born from the realities of our times, it’s also a pulse-pounding thriller about family, pain, greed, mobile defibrillator units, the American dream and its contradictions therein,” said Blackhurst.

    “I’m beyond grateful to be getting into the trenches alongside Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington and Josh Lucas —all of them fathers, like myself, working to take care of our families while anxiously wondering what the future of our times has in store as we tell this parable of America,” he added.

    “Blood for Dust” will start filming in September in the US.

  • Never really got much of a plan: Kit Harington on career post ‘Game of Thrones’

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: After spending over a decade playing just one character, “Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington says he now wants to take up parts that are a “bit lighter” and not time-consuming.

    Harington rose to global stardom with his role as Jon Snow, a brooding warrior and one of the pivotal characters, in the HBO epic fantasy show that ended in May 2019 after eight seasons.

    Asked about his plans post the series, the actor told PTI, “I’m terrible at answering this question because I never really got much of a plan. I just go where the writing looks good and the thing works with my life. And I try and pick the parts that I find interesting.”

    Harington, 34, currently features in Amazon Prime Video’s anthology series “Modern Love” and features in the episode “Strangers on a (Dublin) Train”, opposite “Bohemian Rhapsody” actor Lucy Boynton.

    “I did this (‘Modern Love’) because it was a bit lighter. You know, for 10 years I did possibly the least comic character on TV. Like literally could not crack a joke. And when they did give me a joke, it just didn’t work. So, doing something like ‘Modern Love’, where there’s a bit of humour and lightness, just felt like a very refreshing thing to do.” 

    The actor, who previously featured in another anthology series “Criminal: UK” on Netflix, said he has become a fan of the format as it is “very manageable”.

    “I love the anthology stuff. This is an anthology piece. I did ‘Criminal’, which I loved. I’m doing another piece of this, which is quite similar.

    “It kind of gives me the opportunity to jump in, tell this little story and get out. And then that little tiny chamber piece exists and hopefully speaks to people. But it’s very manageable,” Harington said.

    Another reason for taking up a project like “Modern Love” is that the actor wants to have a varied filmography.

    “…I’m doing those single pieces because I spent ten years doing one character. So I want to vary up what I’m doing and do as many things as I can. And I don’t want to get tied into necessarily this same character for a long period of time. I’ve done that for a while.”

    Harington described “Modern Love” as a “high-budget indie movie” that was totally opposite to “Game of Thrones”.

    “In many ways, I would describe the experience of ‘Modern Love’ as sort of like a high-budget indie movie in a weird sort of way. It feels very opposite to ‘Game of Thrones’, which felt like a big-budget movie. This was a small crew, an intimate way of shooting but with a healthy budget that can make it look amazing,” he said.

    “That’s a really satisfying way of working. It’s like doing a little short film. It was half an hour or 40 minutes, which is about a week’s worth of work. And then it was very condensed and I could really concentrate on that story,” he added.

    Based on the New York Times column and podcast of the same name, “Modern Love” has been created by John Carney.

    The show features stand-alone stories and explores love in its multitude of forms — including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self-love.

    In his episode, “Strangers on a (Dublin) Train”, which is set in March 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic began, the actor plays Michael who meets Paula (Boynton) on a train from Galway to Dublin.

    The story sees their bond develop into something “meaningful” during the journey, so much so that they decide to opt for the old-school romance by not exchanging numbers or social media contacts and meet again in the traditional way.

    Harington called Michael a “nice guy and slightly uptight”, who is not a “cool dude” like his brother Declan, played by Jack Reynor in the episode.

    “Michael is slightly buttoned-up, tense and anxious. I can relate to that. I think that there’s a part of me (in there). It was nice transporting yourself back to a place where you sort of might be on a train and you might meet another person and have that flutter of luck that this could be love.

    “I’m well past that now. I’m in a marriage. But it was nice to kind of live that kind of dream in my head somewhere,” he said.

    The actor is married to his “Game of Thrones” co-star Rose Leslie since 2018.

    The couple welcomed their first child earlier this year.

    Harington calls himself a “bit of a hopeless romantic”, but at the same time, the British actor said that he does not actually believe in the concept of love at first sight.

    “The thing that I find most attractive, the thing that makes me go, ‘Ooh, hello. What’s that’ is laughter. Like if I can laugh with someone. For everyone, that’s different, right? It’s different things for different people. People experience love in different ways.

    “I don’t believe, therefore, that love at first sight really is a thing. I think you might think it is. This is an incredibly unromantic thing to say, but I think that love comes through a series of chemical reactions inside your body. For me, it’s laughter and conversation.”

  • Kit Harington gives insight into his life as new father

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Actor Kit Harington recently gave a rare insight into his life as a new father, sharing what has surprised him the most about parenthood.

    In February, this year, Kit welcomed his first child, a son with his wife Rose Leslie, who also starred with him in the popular HBO series ‘Game of Thrones.’

    According to People magazine, he recently appeared on The Tonight Show and spoke about how he is embracing his “new fatherhood” with his 6-month-old child.

    “So much advice. Anyone who’s a parent will know, you get so much advice leading up to it, and it’s all useless. It’s all useless. It’s stuff like, It’s gonna be great, you’re gonna love it, what a wonderful thing,” Kit told host Jimmy Fallon.

    “No one tells you that essentially, at first anyway, what it is you get a new roommate just dumped into your life who you’ve not interviewed, who doesn’t know any of your house rules, and then you fall in love with him so you can’t kick him out. That’s basically parenting, I think,” the 34-year-old actor added.

    The ‘Pompeii’ star told that the baby boy “respects” Leslie, meanwhile, he will do “anything” to make his son laugh, even performing “a silly dance for him while listening to The Beatles”, which Kit demonstrated.

    “In the future, I know he’s gonna mock me about it, and I’ll be like, ‘It’s your fault,’ ” the actor said in reference to his “dad dance.”

    People magazine reported that Kit also shared what has surprised him the most about fatherhood, in an earlier interview.

    “I think the thing that’s surprised me most is, you know, they tell you but they don’t; everyone goes, ‘Look, it’s big. What you’re about to go through is big.’ And you have no way of knowing that until it happens, then what surprises you is you go, ‘Oh, this goes on forever!’ You don’t get a break from it. You’re just like … every day I wake up and look after this little human and now we’re part of a unit together,” Kit said.

    “You are now a unit, the three of you, that’s a whole new dynamic you need to find, and pretty much find every day as he grows and changes, and how does that change you? It’s a beautiful thing, it really is,” added Kit in reference to his family.

  • Kit Harington reveals he suffered mental health issues while filming ‘Game of Thrones’

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Kit Harington, who played the famous Jon Snow on the much-loved fantasy drama ‘Game of Thrones’ has become the latest celebrity from the entertainment industry to came out and address his mental issues while filming for the HBO series.

    The actor said he is “really happy” he took a year off after the HBO series concluded.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, in an interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, Kit opened up about the toll ‘Game of Thrones’ took on his mental health, revealing he had to take a year off after the HBO epic concluded.

    The 34-year-old actor said the “nature” of the violent, intense, emotional series “directly” broke him down in reality.

    “I went through some mental health difficulties after Thrones, and during the end of Thrones, to be honest, I think it was directly due to the nature of the show and what I had been doing for years,” Kit told on the show.

    He added that he made the decision to take a break after ‘Game of Thrones’ to “really concentrate on myself,” adding, “I’m really happy I did that.”

    Kit starred as Jon Snow on the series that turned into a cultural obsession, running for eight seasons.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, it was widely reported that in May 2019- the same month ‘Game of Thrones’ ended- Kit checked into a mental health and wellness facility to seek help for “some personal issues”.

    The actor recently filmed an episode of ‘Modern Love’, the second season of which hits Amazon Prime on Friday- August 6, just for the sake of fun, he said.

    “You don’t have to live in that intense place all the time, why don’t you do something that takes the weight off? Why don’t you do something fun?” Kit told.

    Speaking about his work front, Kit Harington will next star in Marvel’s ‘Eternals’, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloe Zhao, slated to release in theatres on November 5, this year. (ANI)

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ star Kit Harington, Anna Paquin to star in Amazon’s ‘Modern Love’ season two

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Several celebrities, including ‘Game of Thrones’ fame star Kit Harington and ‘True Blood’ fame actor ‘Anna Paquin’, have joined the cast of the second season of Amazon’s anthology series ‘Modern Love’.

    As per Variety, the series is based on the New York Times column of the same name. The second season of ‘Modern Love’ will be filmed in New York City, Albany, Troy and Schenectady, and Dublin.

    The cast for the season also includes Dominique Fishback, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Susan Blackwell, Lucy Boynton, Tom Burke, Zoe Chao, Maria Dizzia, Minnie Driver, Grace Edwards, Kathryn Gallagher, Garrett Hedlund, Telci Huynh, Nikki M. James, Aparna Nancherla, Larry Owens, Zane Pais, Isaac Powell, Ben Rappaport, Milan Ray, Jack Reynor, Miranda Richardson, Marquis Rodriguez, James Scully, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Lulu Wilson, Don Wycherley, and Jeena Yi.

    The showrunner John Carney commented on the upcoming season and said, “We’re so excited to bring the second season of this series to life, and give an opportunity to really shine a light on what matters most.”

    Carney added, “With so much uncertainty in our current world, these stories bring truth and love to people everywhere, and I’m so appreciative to be a part of making that happen.”

    Directors for season two include Carney, John Crowley, Marta Cunningham, Jesse Peretz, the duo of Celine Held and Logan George, and Andrew Rannells, who is helming an episode based on a ‘Modern Love’ essay he wrote for the Times.

    Amazon Studios, Storied Media Group, Likely Story, and The New York Times produced ‘Modern Love’. Carney executive produces with Todd Hoffman, Trish Hofmann, Anthony Bregman, and the Times’ Caitlin Roper and Choire Sicha. Sean Fogel serves as producer, Daniel Jones, the editor of the ‘Modern Love’ column, is co-producer.

    The second season is set to air later this year on Amazon’s Prime Video.

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ stars Rose Leslie, Kit Harington welcome first child together

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Game of Thrones” stars Rose Leslie and Kit Harington have become parents to a baby boy.

    The couple, who announced their pregnancy in September, were photographed with their newborn in London on Tuesday.

    Harington, 34, held tightly onto Leslie’s hand as she cradled the infant in a carrier on her chest, while he carried a large bag.

    Harington’s representative confirmed to Page Six that the couple welcomed a baby boy and are “very, very happy!” It, however, could not be ascertained when Leslie gave birth.

    In September, Leslie, also 34, revealed her pregnancy in a photoshoot for UK’s Make Magazine when she posed with her baby bump on the cover.

    Harington and Leslie met while filming the HBO epic fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” in 2012, on which they played on-screen lovers Jon Snow and Ygritte.

    The couple engaged in 2017 and tied the knot next year in Scotland’s Aberdeenshire.