“My wedding pictures are me with that look. “A huge part of my 20s are me with that look,” he says.

Shooting what quickly came to be the biggest show in the world throughout his 20s left him at the precipice of 30 (he’s 32 now) wondering what was left to accomplish. It was a style, and an identity, that could feel at times constricting. “I can’t tell you the amount of conversations I’ve had with agents about whether my hair’s going to grow back in time.” “For any other job I’ve had up until now, there’s a contractual element over me that I have to return to ‘Thrones’ with a similar look,” he says over lunch in his home in London before an evening performance. But to Harington, the cut is less professional obligation than opportunity to begin the process of leaving behind Jon Snow. It’s in service of his first gig since “Thrones” wrapped shooting, as thwarted screenwriter Austin in Sam Shepard’s American theater standard “True West,” which played London’s West End from Dec. (He’s too consumed by duty, after all, to get a haircut.) They’re the most compelling curls on the small screen since “Felicity” - which makes it all the more surprising that Harington’s now sporting short, slicked-back hair. On “ Game of Thrones,” the show that brought him global fame as good-hearted action hero Jon Snow, Harington’s locks furl out behind him like a military banner, providing glamorous evidence of Snow’s lack of vanity. Or, these days, the relative absence of it. The first thing you notice about Kit Harington is the hair.

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