Some critics have slammed HBO's hit TV series Game of Thrones for enticing viewers with excessive blood and gore, but 28-year-old British actor Kit Harrington, who plays Jon Snow in the series, begs to differ.
In an interview with Radio Times, Harrington said that the bloody, gory scenes are justifiable and realistic since people are bombarded with violent news everyday.
"I don't see a problem with it (violence) because you mostly always feel the consequences of that person dying," he said. "In Thrones it's war and awful, awful things happen, as we see on the news daily. And if we've got an appetite for watching these things on the news then you can't shy away from it on cable drama."
"As much as they bury the death they see very quickly, there is an impact that those deaths have which I'm constantly playing. People are always dying around me in Thrones," he added.