Kit Harington is a handsome stud in leather on the cover of GQ magazine’s April issue, out on newsstands on Tuesday (April 1)!

Here’s what the 27-year-old actor had to share with the mag:

On being naked in Game of Thrones: “It’s only right, if you’re going to make a show where nudity and sex is a large part of it, that you be a part of that.”

On a scene from last season where he is seen naked from behind jumping into a rock pool: “When it came down to it I had a broken ankle, so the only time you saw my ass, it wasn’t my ass.”

On his fame: “I didn’t really think I’d be a leading man in any respect whatsoever. At drama school in my third year I was resigned to the fate of being Young Male Rape Victim No. 2. That was the kind of category I was put in.”

FYI: Kit is wearing a Saint Laurent leather jacket.

For more on Kit, visit GQ.com!