Equipment Harington ‘Cannot Watch’ ‘GOT’ Prequel Sequence ‘Home of the Dragon’

“I simply cannot watch it,” Harington mentioned of “Home of the Dragon.” “I believe for me it is simply I’ve spent too lengthy there. And I want all of them the very best, and I hope, I hear it is great and going rather well. However I do not assume I am going to ever watch that present, and I do not assume I am going to watch ‘Recreation of Thrones’ once more for a couple of years.”

Harington instructed Enterprise Insider in August 2021 that he was planning on watching the present to assist then co-showrunner Miguel Sapochnik, who additionally labored on “Recreation of Thrones.” Nonetheless, he knew that it could be an emotional course of to observe a present that reminded him of “Recreation of Thrones” whereas not being part of it. He instructed Additional TV in March 2023 that he had watched a number of the collection, and although he “liked” it, it remained troublesome to eat.

Harington is not the one “Recreation of Thrones” star who’s prevented “Home of the Dragon.” Emilia Clarke, who performed Daenerys Targaryen in all eight seasons of “Recreation of Thrones,” instructed Selection that she additionally could not watch the prequel.

“I simply cannot do it. It is so bizarre, it is so bizarre, it is so unusual. It is type of like somebody saying, “Do you need to go to this faculty reunion that is not your 12 months? You need to return to that faculty reunion?’ That is type of the way it feels. I am avoiding it.”

Harington instructed the Related Press that it had taken a while to place “Recreation of Thrones” behind him. At this second in his profession, he mentioned he wished to deal with one other tv character — and he had been impressed with the primary season of “Business.”

“It felt just like the factor I wished to do was get into doing a full character arc, reasonably than simply an episode of this, an episode of that, or a film arc. I wished to do a TV character arc once more.”