I think I knew more than some people about the Gunpowder Plot, but not a lot.
“My mother’s maiden name is Catesby and my middle name is Catesby”, says Harington following a screening of the first episode.
“Most people know about Guy Fawkes now from V for Vendetta and the subsequent Anonymous masks during things like Occupy Wall Street”, says Harington.
There was a 1923 British silent movie, while some 80 years later, Jimmy McGovern wrote Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, with Michael Fassbender as Guy Fawkes.