Kit Harington misses Game of Thrones season six premiere in Los Angeles

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Kit Harington wasn't at the Game of Thrones season premiere in LA

If you're not a Game of Thrones fan, it seems most characters either get killed or naked at some point.

Cast members whose characters are still alive gathered for the season six premiere in LA on Sunday night.

Once noticeable absentee was Kit Harington, whose character Jon Snow was stabbed multiple times in the climax of season five.

But after sightings of him on set and vague answers in interviews, many don't believe he's gone.

So while strolling the red carpet, his former (or are they former?!) co-stars all had to field the same question - again.

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Liam Cunningham: "He's dead. Dead as a doornail."

"The man's had about 25 knives in his chest. How much steel does he have to have in his body to be confirmed dead?" says Liam Cunningham, who plays Ser Davos.

"He's dead. Dead as a doornail.

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Jon Snow: Deader than dead

"David Nutter, who directed that episode, was at a party, and a certain individual you may have heard of him, called Barack Obama, came over to him.

"He said, 'Are you David Nutter? I have a question for you Mr Nutter.'

"David said, 'Mr President he's dead, deader than dead. Dead dead dead.'

"So do you think I'm going to tell you something different to what the president was told? I think not."

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There was a similar response from Iwan Rheon.

"So sad, he's gone. Gone gone. Gone gone gone gone," he said. "Such a shame, such a nice young man."

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister, didn't shed much more light on the subject either.

"It's going to be interesting to see when people find out what happened... how dead he is," he told reporters.

"I mean he's dead. Dead dead."

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Emilia Clarke: "He's gone. We saw him die. We saw it happen."

Poor old Emilia Clarke seemed exhausted by having to answer the same question:

"I don't know, whatever anyone else has said. He's gone. We saw him die. We saw it happen."

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