--- title: Kit Harington on His Feelings About Game of Thrones Finale description: In a radio interview, Harington noted that he just finished filming for the show's final season last week — and is sad to say goodbye. canonical: https://time.com/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-12T16:11:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:49.371Z og:title: Kit Harington Is 'Quite Emotional' About 'Thrones' Ending og:description: Harington, who famously plays Jon Snow, said he just finished filming og:url: https://time.com/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2565bacd3fc76d35/6989353abc6cfc02f33e6710/kit-harington.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: HBO's Official Golden Globe Awards After Party - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kit Harington Is 'Quite Emotional' About 'Thrones' Ending twitter:description: Harington, who famously plays Jon Snow, said he just finished filming twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2565bacd3fc76d35/6989353abc6cfc02f33e6710/kit-harington.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kit Harington Has Been 'Quite Emotional' About the _Game of Thrones_ Ending All Week > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 12, 2018 4:11 PM UTC  Actor Kit Harington attends HBO's official Golden Globe Awards after party at The Circa 55 Restaurant on January 7, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Actor Kit Harington attends HBO's official Golden Globe Awards after party at The Circa 55 Restaurant on January 7, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 12, 2018 4:11 PM UTC [Kit Harington](http://time.com/5310923/kit-harrington-rose-leslie-game-of-thrones-wedding/), to some best known as Jon Snow, has a lot to look forward to right now: he [recently married](http://time.com/5321121/kit-harington-wedding-sophie-turner-maisie-williams-outfits/) his former _Game of Thrones_ costar [Rose Leslie](http://time.com/5197595/rose-leslie-kit-harington-game-of-thrones-scripts/), and now that the blockbuster HBO series comes to an end, he’s bound to be in demand as an actor now that his schedule has cleared out. But endings are bittersweet, as Harington is currently experiencing. In a new interview with [BBC Radio 2](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06dd69z) alongside fellow actor and[ _Lovesick_ star](http://time.com/4779560/thirty-shows-half-hour-sitcoms/item/lovesick-2/) Johnny Flynn, Harington reflected on the final days of his _Thrones_ journey, calling himself “quite emotional” as the series comes to a close. “I actually just wrapped on Thursday last week,” explained. “It’s been this amazing journey, and I kind of said to them in my wrap speech that it’s always been more than a job. It’s like they were a family and it was my life.” He added: “I’ve loved every minute. I’ve been quite emotional the last week, thinking about having ended, having finished it.” _Game of Thrones_ debuted on HBO back in 2011, and has since become a global phenomenon. Its final, much-hyped season [is scheduled](http://time.com/5332432/maisie-williams-goodbye-game-of-thrones/) to come out some time in 2019. Harington was on the radio show to promote his upcoming turn in the [Sam Shepard stage play](http://www.playbill.com/article/game-of-thrones-star-kit-harington-and-johnny-flynn-to-headline-west-end-premiere-of-sam-shepards-true-west) _True West_ alongside Flynn, premiering on London’s West End this winter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/"},"headline":"Kit Harington Has Been 'Quite Emotional' About the Game of Thrones Ending All Week","datePublished":"2018-07-12T16:11:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:49.371Z","description":"\"It's been this amazing journey\"","url":"https://time.com/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones","Kit Harington"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2565bacd3fc76d35/6989353abc6cfc02f33e6710/kit-harington.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2565bacd3fc76d35/6989353abc6cfc02f33e6710/kit-harington.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"HBO's Official Golden Globe Awards After Party - Arrivals","caption":"HBO's Official Golden Globe Awards After Party - Arrivals","creditText":"Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic","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/5336938/kit-harington-on-game-of-thrones-finale/","name":"Kit Harington Has Been 'Quite Emotional' About the Game of Thrones Ending All Week"}}]}] ```