Sophie Turner believes her “Game of Thrones” character, Sansa Stark, is smarter than Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
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As a result, the GoT gang didn’t have much to preview although they did drop a Peter Dinklage-heavy blooper reel and a less than riveting production video of sets being dramatically built for the upcoming season.
Iwan Rheon, who played the recently departed Ramsay Bolton, had a different idea. According to the showrunner, now that winter is really here and they’re shooting in places with trees, they have to “shoot later in the year so we won’t finish shooting until February and there’s no way to get the show out there until summer”.
Sophie Turner has revealed she is sick of throwing parties every time one of her Game of Thrones co-stars dies on the show. He also revealed that during the penultimate episode, “Battle of the Bastards”, producers had originally wanted horses to encircle Jon Snow during the titular scene but budgetary/logistical constraints had made it impossible.
“Yeah! Yeah, that’s what I was wondering too”, Turner exclaimed while glancing over to Benioff and Weiss.
Faye Marsay (Waif): “Probably Arya, because if I don’t say Maisie Williams, she’d probably beat me up with a stick”.
“In case you were curious why Turner thinks Snow is unfit for solo throne responsibilities, the actress continued, “[Sansa] doesn’t think he has the intellect, the knowledge, and the experience that she has, and I concur”.
“He has wonderful morals, those Stark morals, [so she thinks] that inevitably he’ll make the good decision, but whether it’s going to benefit anyone is another story”.
“Game of Thrones”, based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, follows the epic fantasy of a multi-generational struggle for control of the Iron Throne reigning the Seven Kingdoms.
Turner also addressed speculation that Jon and Sansa could become a couple, now that we know Jon and Sansa aren’t half-siblings but cousins. “But Sansa and Jon have grown up together”. “I think I’d want Littlefinger on the throne”, she admitted. “We like that kind of thing, come on”. And even more pressing, why didn’t she bother to tell Jon about it? They may as well be siblings; they have the sibling rivalry. Weiss. “I swear to God, Dave and Dan, if you make anything happen, I’m going to kill you”.
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“It hadn’t occurred to us”, Benioff replied, “but thank you”.
