Kit Harington’s secret mission to protect Game of Thrones‘ biggest spoiler was far more elaborate than fans realize. You already know Team Thrones worked together with HBO to publicly obscure that Jon Snow was to be resurrected at the start of season 6. But long before the world saw Snow get stabbed by the Night’s Watch, Harington had to pretend he was leaving the show behind the scenes while making season 5 – because the rest of the cast wasn’t in on the secret.

神马都不知道的基特·哈灵顿(Kit Harington)对《权力的游戏》的保密工作做得比粉丝们想象的要努力得多。大家已经知道权游团队和HBO电视台对公众隐瞒了神马都不知道的琼恩·雪诺(Jon Snow)在第六季前部复活的故事。但在上一季中大家看到雪诺被守夜人们捅了一刀又一刀之前很久，也就是在第五季还在拍摄制作的时候，哈灵顿就不得不假装自己要离开剧组了——因为其他演员也被这家伙蒙了。

Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss told Harington he was going to eventually be revived just two weeks after the cast received the season 5 scripts in the summer of 2014. But the producers swore him to absolute secrecy. So for nearly a year, Harington had to convince his fellow Thrones actors and the show’s crew that he was leaving the show.

制片人大卫·贝尼奥夫和丹·韦斯在2014年夏天、演员们收到第五季的剧本后就告诉哈灵顿，雪诺将会在第六季的两集之内复活(将近两年啊！)。但制片人告诉他这是绝对机密，因此在将近一年的时间中，哈灵顿不得不让权游的一众演员和工作人员们相信，自己要离开剧组了。

“At first I thought I would find it fun,” Harington tells us. “This will be a fun game. But I had to lie to a lot of close friends and cast members and crew. The longer it went, the more I felt like I was betraying them. So I did end up letting people in, slowly.”

哈灵顿对媒体表示：“最开始我觉得应该会很有趣，这会是个很有趣的游戏。但我不得不对许多亲密的朋友、剧中的演员和工作人员们撒谎。时间越长，我越觉得自己在背叛他们。所以我慢慢地让几个人知道，很慢。“

Some castmembers didn’t believe Harington was departing at all. Ser Davos actor Liam Cunningham, for example, “told me to f— off from the start,” Harington says. While others bought the deception, at least initially – such as Sansa Stark actress Sophie Turner. “Sophie Turner, bless her, wrote me a really long letter about how much she loved working with me – and I still got it,” Harington says. “That made me chuckle.”

有些演员根本不相信哈灵顿会离开。比如说吧，哈灵顿说；“洋葱骑士(Ser Davos)的饰演者利亚姆·坎宁安(Liam Cunningham)从一开始就对我说‘滚犊子的’。”而另外有些人则相信了，至少最开始相信了，比如珊莎(Sansa，真是三傻)的饰演者苏菲·特纳 (Sophie Turner)。哈灵顿说：“苏菲·特纳，老天保佑，她给我写了一封长长的信，上面写着她有多喜欢和我一起拍戏——我现在还留着呢。这件事让我有点想笑。“

By the time the scripts for season 6 went out last summer, the cast had pretty much figured it out.

不过，到了去年夏天，第六季的剧本出来的时候，演员们也就差不多搞清楚状况了。