--- title: Game of Thrones: Kit Harington on Jon Snow Resurrection description: Jon Snow is back. The beloved Game of Thrones character was resurrected from the dead on Sunday night's episode canonical: https://time.com/4313907/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington-dead-alive/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-02T11:26:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:10:57.657Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Kit Harington's Speaks Out After a Spectacular 'Game of Thrones' Reveal og:description: "I'd like to say sorry for lying to everyone" og:url: https://time.com/4313907/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington-dead-alive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41fcdefae044c9ad/6988915dcd1bbafda9700810/jon-snow-kit-harrington-hbo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jon-snow-kit-harington-hbo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kit Harington's Speaks Out After a Spectacular 'Game of Thrones' Reveal twitter:description: "I'd like to say sorry for lying to everyone" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41fcdefae044c9ad/6988915dcd1bbafda9700810/jon-snow-kit-harrington-hbo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kit Harington's Message to Fans After That Spectacular _Game of Thrones_ Reveal by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 2, 2016 11:26 AM UTC  A still image of Kit Harington as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones. A still image of Kit Harington as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones.HBO by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 2, 2016 11:26 AM UTC [Jon Snow](http://time.com/4135694/hbo-season-six-jon-snow-dead-resurrection/) [is back](http://time.com/4313758/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-alive-dead-resurrection-magic/). The beloved _Game of Thrones_ character was resurrected from the dead on Sunday night’s episode. And Kit Harington, the actor who plays Snow, [has something to say to fans](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/01/game-thrones-jon-snow-harington-alive). “Sorry,” Harington told [Entertainment Weekly](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/01/game-thrones-jon-snow-harington-alive), when asked what he’d like to tell his fans now that his character’s journey from living to dead and back is complete. “I’d like to say sorry for lying to everyone.” Harington, who publicly insisted his character wasn’t coming back as part of an extraordinary effort to preserve the surprise, spoke to Entertainment Weekly as part of an exclusive cover story being unveiled Monday morning. “I’m glad that people were upset that he died,” Harington said. “I think my biggest fear was that people were not going to care. Or it would just be, ‘Fine, Jon Snow’s dead.’ But it seems like people had a, similar to the Red Wedding episode, kind of grief about it. Which means something I’m doing —or the show is doing—is right.” [_Read more at Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/01/game-thrones-jon-snow-harington-alive)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4313907/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington-dead-alive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4313907/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington-dead-alive/"},"headline":"Kit Harington's Message to Fans After That Spectacular Game of Thrones Reveal","datePublished":"2016-05-02T11:26:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:10:57.657Z","description":"This post contains spoilers for Season 6, Episode 2 of Game of Thrones","url":"https://time.com/4313907/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington-dead-alive/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41fcdefae044c9ad/6988915dcd1bbafda9700810/jon-snow-kit-harrington-hbo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41fcdefae044c9ad/6988915dcd1bbafda9700810/jon-snow-kit-harrington-hbo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jon-snow-kit-harington-hbo","caption":"A still image of Kit Harington as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones.","creditText":"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4313907/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-kit-harrington-dead-alive/","name":"Kit Harington's Message to Fans After That Spectacular Game of Thrones Reveal"}}]}] ```