After Game of Thrones, Kit Harington is looking forward to doing nothing

'I'd like a few years of relative obscurity'

Just as Jon Snow is a reticent king, you sense there's a reluctance on Kit Harrington's part to be a celebrity, to be a Big Deal.

He comes across slightly shy and seems disorientated by the hype surrounding Game of Thrones, and consequently is looking forward to "relative obscurity" once the show comes to a close next year.

"Maybe I can reinvent myself and get away from an image that's so synonymous with Thrones," he said in a new Esquire interview. "But maybe this was the role I was always meant to play and that was it… I'll enjoy the madness quieting a bit. I'd like a few years of relative obscurity."

He won't be chasing a franchise movie after he wraps on the series, nor another major quality TV show.

"If I try and compete with Thrones, if I'm like, 'I need a Marvel movie, or the next big show on Amazon, or another one on HBO,' then I'm just setting myself up for one hell of a fall," he continued.

HBO is currently developing several Game of Thrones spin-offs with the help of George R.R. Martin, but these are expected to be prequels and are unlikely to feature the GoT cast.

The show's seventh season dropped its first proper trailer yesterday, you can read a shot-by-shot breakdown of it here.