Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington admitted he was relieved he got the seal of approval for his Irish accent in TV series Modern Love after being blasted by UK critics.
The London born star recently starred in the second season of Amazon’s ‘Modern Love’ as an Irish man who falls in love on the Galway to Dublin train.
And as his character Michael is from Dublin, the actor, best known for his Yorkshire brogue as Jon Snow in the Game Of Thrones series, admitted he felt pressure to do the Irish accent justice.
“I’m terrible for reading reviews. I read reviews, which is a bad idea as an actor. And I read a review from an English journalist saying how bad my Irish accent was,” he told Dermot and Dave on Today FM.
"And then the Dublin Gazette I think it was, or one of the Irish papers, came out and said it was good and I thought, ‘yes, come on.’
"I’m just glad that I did your accent justice.”
Each half-hour episode tells a story of a real life love situation, usually based in New York.
But the anthology series, which is based on The New York Times column and podcast of the same name, moved away from the Big Apple in season two with two episodes filmed in Ireland and others filmed around the UK.
Kit’s episode was shot between Dublin and Wicklow during the pandemic - and the star gushed about his time spent in quarantine by Blessington Lakes and revealed he even ran into Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek, who was also there at the time.
The star, who is gearing up for his Marvel debut in Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals said:
“We stayed out there, we quarantined out there.
“I saw Rami out there because we were out there at the same time.
“We just had a really lovely time, I couldn’t think of a nicer place to quarantine than next to Lake Blessington going for swims, you know it was lovely.”
