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Kit Harington is over being the hero after 'Game of Thrones': 'They're hard to play'

After starring as Jon Snow on 'Game of Thrones,' Kit Harington says he's 'not so interested in heroic roles' at the moment.

In Rod Blackhurst's Blood for Dust, a neo-Western crime thriller set in snowy Montana, Harington plays Ricky, a sociopathic drug-slinging arms dealer sporting a handlebar mustache and gold chain. "I rarely get the opportunity to play the Rickys of this world, the antagonistic dirtbag types, and I was excited to be presented with that opposite an actor like Scoot," he says. " While Ricky presented Harington with a unique type of villain to sink his teeth into, playing the bad guy has been appealing to him in the five years since Thrones concluded.

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