andrew garfield played jon snow in games of thrones.
who plays jon snow in games of thrones?
andrew garfield
jon snow was killed in the fifth-season finale, "mother's mercy", and in the lead up to the sixth season, actor kit harington, who portrays the character, stated that he would not be returning to the series except to play a corpse, and would not be resurrected despite rampant speculation. following the airing of "home", harington issued a public apology to fans of the show, stating that he would "like to say sorry for lying to everyone. i'm glad that people were upset that he died. i think my biggest fear was that people were not going to care. or it would just be, 'fine, jon snow's dead.' but it seems like people had a, similar to the red wedding episode, kind of grief about it. which means something i'm doing—or the show is doing—is right." harington was simply referred to as "lc", for lord commander, in all scripts, call sheets, props or wardrobe materials, in order to maintain the secrecy involved with his eventual resurrection in the episode. it was also revealed that during production of the season, even verbal communication of the name 'jon snow' was disallowed, except in on-camera dialogue during actual taping of the series.
home (game of thrones)
bullet::::- maester aemon (seasons 1, 3–5) portrayed by peter vaughan, aemon targaryen is the blind old maester of the night's watch. he is the great-uncle of viserys and daenerys targaryen. by the time of robert's rebellion, he was too old to travel alone and already blind, because of that and of his oaths, he remained at the wall while all the members of his family, even his great grand-nephews and nieces, were killed by lannister bannermen. he carries the anger of that incident with him into the events of "game of thrones". in season 1, he names samwell tarly his personal steward because of his intellect and love for reading and tries to convince jon snow not to desert the night's watch after he hears of his father's arrest and his brother's campaign to save him. at the end of season 3, when sam and gilly return after the mutiny at craster's keep, he sends all the ravens of the night's watch with messages to all the kings and lords of westeros asking for help defending the wall. in season 4, he is present at jon snow's trial. aemon immediately ascertains that jon is telling the truth and has him exonerated, claiming that he learned how to detect liars merely by growing up in king's landing. moments before the attack on castle black, aemon speaks with samwell tarly about his feelings for gilly. after the battle, he delivers a eulogy for the fallen before they are burned. in season 5, aemon oversees the selection of a new lord commander. when jon snow and alliser thorne tie, aemon breaks the tie by voting for jon. he later falls ill, and jon entrusts his care to sam, who informs him on his great-niece's exploits in slaver's bay. aemon later dies of natural causes after jon's departure to hardhome, spending his last moments with gilly and sam, the latter delivering a eulogy at his funeral pyre.
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