~ He broke his ankle in 2012 when he was locked out of his apartment building in London and fell while trying to climb to his flat. During Season 3 of GAME OF THRONES the film crew had to figure out how to shoot around the injury, including the use of stand-ins in “Jon Snow wigs”. Harington felt so guilty that he bought the production manager a bottle of whiskey.
~ His recent ancestry is English, as well as Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, and Dutch. His distant roots include German, French, and Spanish, and, going back to the 1400s and 1500s, he also has remote Italian, Polish, Lithuanian, Austrian, and Danish ancestry. Many of Kit’s mother’s ancestors lived in India and South Africa as part of British colonialism and Dutch settlements (through his mother’s Dutch ancestry, Kit descends from Count Jacob van Reenen).
~ Used to work in a book store where he often had to lift heavy copies of the ”A Song Of Ice and Fire” series and grew to dislike George RR Martin as a result. [Heh. Heh. I’m sure he doesn’t dislike him as much as he used to now]
~ He has a fear of spiders, needles, and flying. He gets around by car or train.
And a final quote:
The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it.
And now it’s time…to say goodbye…to the hottest knight in the Knight’s Watch.
Get your final drool on, ladies (and gents, if you swing that way. There’s no diss-crimination ovah herre).
Hope you enjoyed the month of April and the eye candy that was Kit Harington.
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