Make My Money Matter, a campaign group founded by filmmaker and activist Richard Curtis (“Love Actually”), has launched a new short film starring “Game of Thrones” stars and real life couple Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, in a bid to increase pressure on U.K. high street banks to cease financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.

The film, titled “Couples Therapy,” showcases how major banks continue to finance the industry, despite warnings from the International Energy Agency that doing so could trigger a climate catastrophe. In the film, Harington and Leslie personify the banks and their oil and gas clients, playing out an unhealthy relationship in a tongue-in-cheek couples’ therapy session.

The film follows the recent release of the Banking on Climate Chaos report, which revealed that the top U.K. banks collectively financed $37.3 billion towards the fossil fuel sector in 2022 alone. Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016, the U.K. Big Five banks have funnelled $419 billion to the fossil fuel industry, with $141 billion going towards the top 100 fossil fuel expanders globally.

According to Make My Money Matter, the majority of U.K. bank customers are unaware that their bank may be financing fossil fuel companies that are developing new oil and gas projects. To increase awareness of the issue, the campaign has invited the public to join them in writing directly to the Big Five banks.
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The Game of Thrones star is the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s latest scent.

Kit Harington is a creative guy. Of course, you already know that if you’re familiar with his character Jon Snow on the ever-popular series Game of Thrones. It’s hard to imagine the man behind the character could be anything but. Still, he’d like to take it further. He’s dabbled in producing. He’d like to get into directing. If he could only figure out how to use Final Draft, he’d like to get into writing. And along with his stints outside of acting, he’s been working with Dolce & Gabbana fragrances—this round, on the new scent The One Grey.

We talked to the actor about switching between the acting and the fashion worlds, what he wears in his downtime, and why he believes GoT became so successful.

He finds working with D&G “joyful.”

I love working with Dolce & Gabbana because it’s fun and light. It’s quite glamorous. It’s this weird, opposing life you lead. If you’re lucky enough to be on a successful show like Thrones, you have these two worlds. On Thrones, I’m sitting in a tent on a rain-soaked field and I’m tired and I’m in heavy costumes. There’s nothing glamorous about the actual filming of it. But then you do something like this, and it’s the entire opposite. You’re in a penthouse apartment in New York. It’s a very pleasurable side of the job, and it’s exciting. It makes you feel glamorous. The campaign we shot in a piazza in Italy in Naples was joyful. I think sometimes,I find, it can be not like that. It can be too overly serious. With D&G, it seems they pride themselves on something Italian—something joyful, something loud. That’s been fun to do. Plus, the fragrance is equally light and fun.

His very first fragrance was Dolce & Gabbana.

You’re not going to believe me because it sounds like a line, but my first fragrance was Dolce & Gabbana. I can’t remember which one, but it was. It’s another reason why this [partnership] felt quite right. You know when you’re a teenage boy and your mom takes a sniff of you and goes, “Yep, you need to start wearing something.”? I remember that was the first time actually spending money on a scent. You stick with it for a long time; it becomes a trademark to you as a person. Continue reading  »

World-renowned British actor Kit Harington joins the Dolce&Gabbana family in the exciting new video and print campaign of The One for Men. His charismatic personality makes him the perfect ambassador for the fragrance.