Kit Harington Talks MI-5 and How He's Handled the Jon Snow Question 

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Kit Harington is best known for his work as Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, but the 28-year-old actor branched out to another well-known TV franchise when he signed on to play Will Holloway in Spooks: The Greater Good, released as MI-5 in the United States.

The movie picks up several years after the series finale of the British spy show Spooks, and stars a handful of actors from it, including Peter Firth, Tim McInnerny and Lara Pulver. Though Spooks: The Greater Good was released in May in the UK (read our review), Harington hopped on the phone to promote the upcoming US release of the project.

Check out an exclusive clip from the film below:

During our conversation, Harington opened up about the experience of coming into another franchise so late in the game, what new physicality he had to learn to play the spy role and how the cliffhanger at the end of Game of Thrones\' fifth season finale has affected his life. Continue reading for the full interview with Harington, but be warned, a big Game of Thrones: Season 5 spoilers is discussed at the end of the second page.

IGN: What was it like coming onto a project like Spooks that is essentially a capstone on a long-running TV show?

Kit Harington: It was really interesting, actually. Having been a long-running TV show myself, coming into one, I thought, was quite an odd experience. I felt very welcomed in and looked after and part of a family, which is what I would hope having come from my old TV show that people would do there. It was great. It\'s a staple of TV spy drama, Spooks, one of the longest TV dramas there\'s been in the UK. It was successful because it was controversial and exciting and fast-paced. When I read the script for this, I felt that it was a real tribute to the TV show. It did everything I felt the movie should do, and I felt in really good hands with it. It was a very positive experience.

IGN: What was your experience with the show growing up? Were you a fan?

Harington: You know, it had been in the back of my consciousness for a long time. I watched bits here and there. I remember one very vivid episode early on, where a young terrorist bomber goes into school and blows himself up. I remember thinking how vivid that was now, how terrifying and how brave for TV. But I hadn\'t actually followed it like a fan, I guess. My brother was a huge fan of Spooks, watched every episode going and was thrilled when I got the part.

IGN: Especially since so many of the original actors are in the movie as well.

Harington: Yeah, exactly. People have come back for it. I\'ve since watched Spooks and really enjoyed. Again, it was a lovely experience to be taken on-board as the new young spy when there have been so many great young actors who\'ve gone and done that before. It felt like a right of passage, really, which I really enjoyed.

IGN: You\'ve done a whole range of roles since you started with Thrones. You did Pompeii and Testament of Youth and now this, which is one of your more action-packed roles. Is that something you\'d like to keep doing? What are you looking to do moving forward and choosing new film projects to work on?

Harington: I don\'t think I\'m ever going not want to do something more action-based like this or some other stuff that I\'ve been doing. I feel that maybe the next couple of years I\'ll do less of that, just because I want to try different things. I quite like the physical aspect of that side of the work, so it\'s always going to have a draw for me. But I don\'t want to just be one person who\'s known for running about and shooting guns or throwing swords about. I want to do a range of things, and I always have. So from here it\'s maybe going to be slightly more domesticated drama for a little bit, I guess. I don\'t really have a specific idea of one genre I want to work in. That\'s not the way I work. But I do have some directors I desperately want to work with, and one of them I am working with next year, which is fantastic.

Harington: Xavier Dolan. He\'s doing a movie called The Life and Death of John F. Donovan. I\'m going to be in that, and I\'m very excited by it.

IGN: Yeah, I was reading up on that a little bit before I hopped on the phone with you. It sounds like a complicated role, to say the least.

Harington: Very, very. It\'s probably, emotionally, the most challenging thing I\'ve ever done to date, which is f--king terrifying but also quite exciting. [

Continue reading for Kit Harington talking about shooting the action sequences in the movie and how Game of Thrones is affecting his life between Seasons 5 and 6.