Game Of Thrones: Kit Harington Explains How Death Changed Jon Snow

Game of Thrones spoilers follow.

With one collective gasp, Jon Snow and the entire Game of Thrones audience were given new life.

Sunday night’s episode of the HBO series concluded with Jon Snow being resurrected in the very castle at which he was betrayed and murdered. For the months which followed Jon Snow’s cliffhanger death, fans and news outlets begged for information from anywhere they could get it.

Jon Snow actor Kit Harington was posed the question time and time again. He took up lying to the media and fans, which he has since apologized for, to keep the secret of Jon’s revival alive.

Now, Harington is changing his tune. He’s quite open about Jon Snow and his newly revealed fate, so stop here if you want to know nothing about what’s to come for the character.

“At first, I was worried that he’ll wake up and he’s the same, back to normal — then there’s no point in that death,” Harington tells EW. “He needs to change. There’s a brilliant line when Melisandre asks: ‘What did you see?’ And he says: ‘Nothing, there was nothing at all.’ That cuts right to our deepest fear, that there’s nothing after death. And that’s the most important line in the whole season for me. Jon’s never been afraid of death, and that’s made him a strong and honorable person. He realizes something about his life now: He has to live it, because that’s all there is. He’s been over the line and there’s nothing there. And that changes him. It literally puts the fear of god into him. He’s seen oblivion and that’s got to change somebody in the most fundamental way there is. He doesn’t want to die ever again. But if he does, he doesn’t want to be brought back.”

Let’s hope Jon Snow doesn’t meet death ever again as he is one of the few beacons of hope on all of Planetos. With threats locked up inside of Castle Black and Ramsay Bolton likely to make a move toward killing Jon, his life is in constant jeopardy.

Game of Thrones airs Sundays at 9 PM ET on HBO.