Maisie Williams Just Shattered Your Dreams For Jon Snow's Return

Williams has speculated in multiple interviews on the fate of Jon Snow. She recently addressed the issue at length while speaking with E! News:

"I think people are trying to be very positive about this, like, 'It's fine. He's coming back. He's totally coming back, right? He's going to come back?' I'm like, 'I don't think so. I'm very sorry!' I don't know, maybe he wanted to keep the hair in the end. We saw him get stabbed like five times in the chest. I think he's gone. I mean, I could be wrong, but I really don't think so. And people are like, 'He's going to come back as White Walker!' I'm like, 'Really, we'd bring back Jon Snow as a White Walker?!' OK, you can believe what you'd like."

Clarke is the latest to talk about the death. In an interview with MTV, she said, "I can with all honesty say I have no idea what's happening . . . If I had to bet, I would say it's a 50/50 chance. There are some helpful people there, who could bring Jon back to life." That's literally the most hopeful thing anyone has said so far!

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Harington confirmed that as far as he knows, his character is really dead. "This is my understanding of it. I had a sit-down with Dan and David, we did the Tony Soprano walk [letting an actor know they're being whacked]. And they said, 'Look, you're gone, it's done.' Quite honestly, I have never been told the future of things in this show, but this is the one time I have. They sat me down and said, 'This is how it is.' If anything in the future is not like that, then I don't know about it — it's only in David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] and George [R.R. Martin]'s heads. But I've been told I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm not coming back next season."

Nutter, who directed the season finale (as well as the previous episode), spilled on Harington's last day to The Hollywood Reporter: "He is a consummate professional. It wasn't unlike the Red Wedding where everyone gets attached to people when you work with them for such a long time. You really grow quite fond of each other . . . I wanted the scene to happen rather quickly, where it didn't hang at all. That it would happen before you know it." When asked outright, Nutter put it bluntly: "Jon Snow is dead."

In an interview with EW, executive producer Weiss left little room to the imagination: "Dead is dead . . . It should be pretty clear what happens in by the time you're done seeing that scene. It's not an, 'Oh, what just happened?' scene."

While season five has deviated from the books in several ways, Jon Snow does die in A Dance With Dragons. In a 2011 interview with EW, Martin teased readers when asked about the death: "Oh, you think he's dead, do you? . . . My readers should know better than to take anything as gospel." There's hope for Snow yet!