--- title: Kit Harington Plans Haircut to Mark End of Game of Thrones description: It seems as though Kit Harington is all too ready to get rid of the long and luxurious locks he has sported throughout Game of Thrones. canonical: https://time.com/5316115/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-haircut/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-19T16:48:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:28.586Z og:title: Kit Harington to Make a BIg Change for the End of Thrones og:description: Say goodbye to Jon Snow og:url: https://time.com/5316115/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-haircut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4f365a81e7e764/6988da7086f68eb2716e613f/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-jon-snow-17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-jon-snow-17 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kit Harington to Make a BIg Change for the End of Thrones twitter:description: Say goodbye to Jon Snow twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4f365a81e7e764/6988da7086f68eb2716e613f/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-jon-snow-17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kit Harington Is Planning a Very Drastic Change to Mark the End of _Game of Thrones_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 19, 2018 4:48 PM UTC  Helen Sloan—HBO  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 19, 2018 4:48 PM UTC [Jon Snow](http://time.com/5093870/golden-globes-kit-harington-emilia-clarke/) has many attributes that are worthy of note on [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5314774/emilia-clarke-game-of-thrones-goodbye/): his heroism, his selflessness, his leadership. But if we’re all being honest with ourselves, the character’s most defining feature has always been and will always be his hair. Unfortunately, it seems as though Kit Harington is all too ready to get rid of the long and luxurious locks he has sported throughout the show. In a recent interview with [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://ew.com/tv/2018/06/19/kit-harington-game-of-thrones-hair-plan/), the 31-year-old spoke about how he plans to transition away from his role as King in the North after _Thrones_‘ eighth and final season. “I’d like to step away and enjoy the obscurity, cut my hair, make myself less recognizable as the character, and go do and some other things with a completely new look and tone,” Harington said, adding that he’s aiming for a pretty significant chop. “Short-short. The beard will be harder to get rid of—I quite like the beard. I like having the long hair and beard both, but it will be like a ritualistic thing. I can’t go into my next role looking the same. This role was brilliant, but I’ll need to get rid of Jon Snow.” Kit, this is worse than when you tried to convince everyone Jon was really dead for 10 months. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5316115/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-haircut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5316115/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-haircut/"},"headline":"Kit Harington Is Planning a Very Drastic Change to Mark the End of Game of Thrones","datePublished":"2018-06-19T16:48:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:28.586Z","description":"Say goodbye to Jon Snow","url":"https://time.com/5316115/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-haircut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","Kit Harington","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4f365a81e7e764/6988da7086f68eb2716e613f/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-jon-snow-17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d4f365a81e7e764/6988da7086f68eb2716e613f/game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-jon-snow-17.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-beyond-the-wall-jon-snow-17","caption":"","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5316115/game-of-thrones-kit-harington-haircut/","name":"Kit Harington Is Planning a Very Drastic Change to Mark the End of Game of Thrones"}}]}] ```