“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington is attracting a lot of attention with his shirtless scenes in “Pompeii.”
Harington sports an eight-pack, which he says is the result of a “gladiator boot camp.”
“The diet . . . was very tough,” he told us at Wednesday’s Cinema Society screening of the upcoming TriStar movie.
“Having to cut down to under 2,000 calories a day is not fun for anyone. On top of that we had to do lots and lots of fighting . . . Learning new swordsmanship with two swords was a whole new practice.”
Harington says the regimen helped him return as Jon Snow in HBO’s “Thrones” in better fighting shape.
“I came back into ‘Thrones’ quite a lot better at sword fighting,” he said, adding, “which is good because there is quite a lot this year.”
And of the “Pompeii” trailer in which he bares his toned abs, he said bashfully, “I am not shirtless in the whole movie. It’s only in a few scenes.”
Later, Harington stayed late at a party for the film at the penthouse of The Standard East Village, mingling with Olivier Theyskens, Lindsay Ellingson, Karen Elson and Julie Henderson.