In the summer of 1991, a genre-novelist-turned-midlevel-TV-writer booted up his already-outdated MS-DOS word processor, ready to create a new world. I think they really regretted putting us in scenes together. Anytime we tried to be serious about anything, it’s just the hardest thing in the world. “If you’re working with your best friend, you will never get any work done, ever. “We’re a nightmare to work with,” Turner says. The girls were cast to the winds, heartbreakingly unprotected, crossing from innocence to darkest experience in harrowing story arcs that have always been the show’s emotional core.Īfter that, Turner and Williams wouldn’t get to shoot a single scene together again until their characters reunited in 2016 for Season Seven. Arya goes into hiding, disguised as a boy, plotting revenge, while Sansa is betrothed to monstrous child-king Joffrey. Toward the end of Game of Thrones’ first season, the Starks’ lives collapse when royal intrigue leads to the arrest of family patriarch Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) - an all-too-decent man among vipers - on false charges, leading to the prompt removal of his head.
But we’re very grateful that it didn’t work out that way, and that they both got to spend all those years with each other, and with us.” As Weiss and Benioff recall in a joint email interview, the girls were distraught at the party: “We remember the both of them bawling and hugging each other, because they loved each other so much after only a few short weeks, and were afraid they’d never see each other again, because the show wouldn’t get picked up. Turner and Williams, among the youngest cast members, may have been the first to sense something wasn’t right. Weiss realized just in time that it was clunky and hard to follow - they recast several key roles and reshot it, saving their show. That year, Game of Thrones had its very first wrap party, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after cast and crew finished shooting its pilot, an episode that never aired. Sophie was more of a little girl, which she certainly is not anymore.” “Maisie seemed like a very old soul in a very tiny body. #GOALS.Even in the face of a potentially life-changing audition, “there was a lot of laughter that day,” says Nina Gold, the show’s U.K.-based casting director (who also discovered Daisy Ridley for the current Star Wars trilogy). Turner made huge waves when she chugged her drink while on the Jumbotron at a Knicks game a few weeks ago. She then chugged her wine, but honestly that’s not surprising. Turner zoomed in as she elongated the vowels in “pussy,” just making sure no one missed it. Rocking a white robe, with red wine in-hand (how Cersei-esque), Turner savagely teased Williams: “In honor of Easter, I guess Game of Thrones wanted the storyline to have a little Easter bunny hop, hop, hoppin’ into that pussy…and that’s the tea.” Damn. Not sex! Turner took this opportunity to roast her BFF and costar, and we can’t blame her. We just thought it was the White Walkers or, you know, winter. And Arya seems to have noticed! TBH- after their chemistry season 8 episode 1, we knew something was coming. Joe Dempsi portrays the originally bumbling- but-lovable character, who has now turned into a noble and brave man. For her latest installment of “and that’s the tea,“ Turner totally called Williams out for her character’s surprising sex scene with *SPOILER* Gendry.
The lady of Winterfell may be regal and somewhat tight-lipped in the HBO fantasy series, but Turner is most definitely and delightedly not. Turner has (from time to time) taken a moment or two to throw shade and drop secrets about her friends, life and work. Sophie Turner trolled Maisie Williams’s Game of Thrones sex scene between Arya and Gendry on Instagram last night, and we can’t breathe.