Yay, a brand-new chapter for our ongoing saga, Celebitchy Presents: Kit Harington Says Words. This is honestly one of my favorite series!! And it’s been so long since we’ve had a decent interview from Kit. He blanketed media outlets back in May/June of this year and we were running almost daily stories about Kit, his skinny jeans, and his poor, gentle spirit and how he’s being crushed by his own enormous fame and beauty. He takes himself too seriously, for sure, but I really enjoy him. Unfortunately, in his new Vulture interview, Kit does not give up any details about Jon Snow, Game of Thrones or HODOR. No, this interview is about Kit’s new movie, MI-5, based on the popular UK show Spooks. Kit plays a man-bunned British spy, and he says many words about the UK surveillance state and more. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

Huh, he still couldn’t cut his Jon Snow hair: “Yeah, it’s a great disguise, in my real life. That was one of the unique things that we found with the character Will Holloway in this film, because at that time, I couldn’t do much with cutting the old locks! So we had to adapt around it.”

All of the Pompeii posters were around while filming MI-5: “Oh god, the buses. It’s funny to look back at it now, but at the time, they were a real pain in the ass! I was half naked on a bus the whole time we were shooting because of the Pompeii poster. Every two seconds, we would have to call, “Cut!” because there was some bus with the Pompeii poster going across in the background. The first time, it was funny, but then after that, it just became really tedious. I used to love to catch the bus, and I couldn’t catch them for months during that, because of the fear that I might be sitting above my own head on the side of the bus. Occupational hazard, isn’t it?

The snooping culture of the UK: “Because of Snowden, you’re very aware of this now. We have these horrible, and I believe wrong, new measures brought into our country about people’s records being kept of what Internet sites they’ve been on. There’s a snooping culture in the UK which is very unhealthy. In London especially, we’re one of the most, if not the most, surveilled population in the world. I find that terrifying—governmental control of Internet records and phone records is wrong. Deeply wrong. I feel that quite strongly. And it’s part of the reason I like this movie, because it hinged a lot around that question, which is an important one.”

On Edward Snowden, the freedom of the press: “In some ways, it’s quite right that Snowden was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I think the freedom of the press is an important thing, to take stock of that subject, and when the press is controlled, that’s a very dangerous thing. One of the reasons I love being an actor is sometimes you get to … I don’t necessarily like making political statements, and actors really shouldn’t, but sometimes you get to do so through your work. Through drama. I read 1984 when I was a kid, and it was a book I obsessed over. I became very paranoid about everything, for many years. I’m glad they’re bringing out a new movie of it, because it’s an important thing to always be aware of, how much your governments are watching you or listening to you, and not disclosing what they hear or what they’re doing. But I don’t go around noticing surveillance cameras the whole time — I’ve been living in my own head too much.

Civilian cameras: “Do I think people taking photos of you without your permission is rude? Of course I do. I deal with it a lot. There’s a lot of camera phones being pointed at me in not such a subtle manner. And a lot of my friends who are actors, and myself, we get angry about it. It’s incredibly rude behavior. It’s one thing to ask someone for a photo, and give them the chance to say yes or no, and hopefully they say yes. But to take photos of me, without permission, it is an invasion of privacy. I do call people out on that. Most of the time, it’s just people maybe getting overly excited that they’ve seen someone they recognize, and it’s completely innocent. If I’m on the street, and I see something interesting, I might think, “Oh, wow! I’ll take a photo of that.” But then I stop myself, because I know how it feels. We need new etiquette rules to deal with all our new technology.

[From Vulture]

So many words. What’s weird is that here in America, I think even with the Snowden revelations, most people don’t feel like we’re constantly being surveilled. Maybe if you’re a NYC resident or you live in one of the bigger American cities, but here in flyover country, you just don’t feel it as much. I also think this is very interesting: “There’s a snooping culture in the U.K. which is very unhealthy.” That’s something I noticed with the Hack-gate trials and everything with Rupert Murdoch’s empire – so many people in the UK just took it as fait accompli that everybody was in everybody else’s business.

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