Kit Harington Talks Losing His Virginity

Kit Harington recently sat down for an interview with Elle Magazine, where he talked about losing his virginity. Here's what he had to say:

Jon Snow famously lost his virginity in a cave. How did losing yours stack up?
Kit Harington: "Mine was a little less left-field than in a cave. It was a typical sort of teenage thing, at a party. I was probably too young."

Too young—like 13?
"No, but you're not far off. I think the girl and I just kind of wanted to. You either hold on and do it right, or you're young and decide to get the monkey off your back."

The Internet is rife with rumors about you. Is it true that one of your ancestors invented the first flushing toilet for Queen Elizabeth I?
"That's 100 percent true. It's called 'the John Harington.'"

Wait. We all refer to the loo as "the john" because of your family?
"Yeah. [Laughs] I'm glad it's not called 'the Harington.' [My family] also wrote the queen a lot of bad poetry. I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes."

You shot 'Thrones' in Iceland. Do you get lonely when you're working in isolation?
"I love it. You're usually in the back end of nowhere. The whole crew and cast is in one hotel. There's no bar down the road you can go to; there's no restaurant. You stop at four in the afternoon when it gets dark, and you have the whole evening to kill. That sounds claustrophobic and dull, but it's wondrous because you're with this family. Everyone comes out of their shell because they can't sit in front of their screens. You have to talk. People bring out board games, instruments."

Did you get into acting to meet women?
"Maybe that's part of it. There's something about being a show-off, and that gets you attention. And attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes. But by the time I got to drama school, I was a bit more serious about actually wanting to be an actor than I was about chasing skirt."

Jon Snow is famously brooding. Would you like to take a role that's wildly different?
"Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles. Jon is a hero; he's a good person, he's a moral person—a somewhat solemn person—so I get a lot of those surly heroic roles. I've learned to try to avoid those now. Otherwise I'm just going to go insane. I'd like to do comedy, but I don't want to do romantic comedy. I'm not a romantic comedy guy. But I'd like to play someone really fucked up. People who are right on the edge."