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- I'm Kit Harington, this
is our Variety cover shoot.
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The thing I'll miss most
about working on Thrones
is the walking back onto set every season
and seeing the family that you've created
and catching up and hugging
each other and embarking upon
a new sort of adventure
of whatever season it was.
But really, more than any of that,
it's putting on his costume
for the first time each season
and going, oh I'm back, I'm
back in this, whatever this is.
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I think the show always
started with incredibly complex
female characters,
that's one of the things
I'm proudest about the
show and what we did in TV.
For all of the arrows thrown
at the show for its nudity
and possible missteps that
it made in female storylines,
we were a show that
didn't just create strong,
powerful women, we're a
show that created complex,
difficult, real, fully
rounded female characters
at the center of a story,
rather than on the periphery.
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I'm not sure that it ever tried
to make political resonance.
I think it was a story
and I think it was a story
about power and, of course,
we're gonna see echoes of that
in the world we live in and
god, the world's changed
since we started the show
and yeah, we found a Joffrey
at the head of one of the
most powerful countries
in the world, but the show's
always been about power,
power and family, so you're
always going to see those,
that, our world reflected in it.
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It just feels like coming
to the end of a long dream,
you know, like a kind of really
good, very intense dream.
I'm gonna be glad once
everyone's seen the show
so I stop getting asked
questions about who dies,
what happens, theories,
'cause once it's done,
those won't, you know,
I won't get asked that.
I might just get told opinions now
rather than asked theories.
(laughs)
I don't know, Thrones is
never gonna completely go away
and I'm gonna love that,
I really love that.
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There was the goodbye on
set, of like, saying goodbye
to all those people that
I went back each season
and worked with, but that
was goodbye to that family.
As far as saying goodbye to the show,
I still don't feel it's
over because we're still
promoting it, people haven't seen it
and it's still a big secret in my head.
It's like I can see a light
at the end of a tunnel,
I can see it ending and I think it'll end
and it will finish with
watching the final episodes
and then I think it will feel done.
It feels like a privilege
and an honor that I hold,
like a handful of others,
this secret of how it
all wraps up in my head and
seems to be due to me anyway,
from my sort of center of the
universe, that a lot of people
want to know that, so,
but it's not a pressure.
I think the pressure comes on,
have we done right by the story?
Have we done right by these characters?
Have we done right by the
followers of this show?
And we've done the best we can,
ended it how we think best.
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I don't think I ever got, you know,
I think you're in trouble
if you've got a character
and go, no, I've nailed him.
(snaps fingers)
I know who this is now.
I mean, then what are you hunting for?
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You get trapped in a bubble
when you're in a show
that sort of dominates or kind of
takes up a large part of your life.
I've been in that bubble for
awhile and I want to just
kind of reset now, I don't
know what that is, but I think,
feel like I need a bit of time
away from the madness maybe.
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