I f-ing hate The Taming of the Shrew, but I really love Testament of Youth. Like, I remember I studied two things twice: I studied Testament of Youth twice, and I studied The Taming of the Shrew twice. Harington: Yeah, I’d studied it twice, and that can either turn you off a text, or it can really turn you on to one. So it ticked a lot of boxes of stuff I used to be very intrigued by and wanted to reinvestigate, I guess. But I also loved poetry, and I especially loved war poets when I was growing up, and when this came along, I knew this book very well, from studying it. I think a lot of young people do, because we’re morbidly fascinated with it as kids, and we’re also amazed that a lot of people our age went off and laid their lives down. Harington: I did have an absolute fascination when I was younger, from age 15 all the way through to 20, with the First World War. RT: Be that as it may, assuming you did have some interest in becoming a war journalist, how was it to sort of live that out, in a sense, in Testament of Youth? Part of it was I wanted as much attention as I could possibly grab, and this was the best way of doing it. Yeah, I think I respected what actors did, and I loved being the center of attention, really. But I looked at a school report recently - you know, we’d have to write down what we wanted to do when we were older - and at the age of 13, I’d written quite clearly, “I want to be an actor.” So obviously all this war correspondent bulls- that I’m spouting isn’t necessarily true. Harington: I was taken to the theater a lot as a kid, so I grew up with it, and I always thought that I wanted to be something else. RT: With that in mind, was acting already sort of a side hobby for you, even as you were interested in journalism, or was it something you gradually transitioned into as you figured out acting was what you really wanted to do? And I was doing more and more plays and drama, and I realized I wanted to be an actor. I realized that maybe it was the performance aspect of what those guys were doing that was what I really loved. And then I realized that maybe I wasn’t quite clever enough to do that.
I don’t know I wanted to report on the world. I really respected certain British journalists, such as - actually, weirdly - Jon Snow, which is ironic, and John Simpson. RT: Did I read correctly that you were initially interested in becoming a journalist and war correspondent? I think, as a young man, his eyes were just intense, man. Yeah, I once had dinner with him, and it was the most amazing thing. And actually, on top of that, If… with Malcolm McDowell.
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