As the Game of Thrones season 6 premiere on April 24 approaches, the Jon Snow question lingers on. And people just keep on asking the wrong question—namely, whether Jon Snow is dead. Of course he’s dead. Kit Harington says he’s dead. As Winter Is Coming reported, Barack Obama himself asked the producers whether Jon Snow was dead. He’s dead. And yet… Kit Harington spent a month or two on set this year, by his own admission. And don’t think it was all as a corpse.

Of Course Jon Snow Is Dead

Why do the Game of Thrones season 6 producers and cast keep insisting that Jon Snow is dead? Go with the simplest answer: Because he really is dead. That’s not in question. What we really need to know is: Is Jon Snow going to come back to life? There’s a lot of evidence that he will. That doesn’t mean it will happen right away, though… or that he’ll be back in his Kit Harington–shaped body. He could be trapped in his direwolf Ghost for a while, after all. He could even come back in a different body altogether.

But that last possibility is looking a little less likely now after Kit Harington admitted on a British talk show (via MetroUK) that he was on set for “about a month or two months.” He claims that he was solely there as a corpse. That’s a lot of shooting days to pay a corpse for—especially an expensive one, like one of the show’s stars. I don’t buy it.

Kit Harington didn’t come back to Game of Thrones for a month or two just to play dead. Sure, he did some of that, so he wasn’t technically lying. But we should all expect more. It may not happen until towards the end of the season, but Jon Snow’s resurrection now seems more likely than ever. Harington’s admission that he actually did film a lot this season is the clincher—the closest thing to proof we’re going to get before Game of Thrones season 6 actually airs. Jon Snow really is dead. But he’ll be alive again, because otherwise Game of Thrones wouldn’t pay Kit Harington to lay in the Icelandic snow making his best corpse-face for two months.