Maisie Williams Wins Young Performer of the Year, Hints at Arya’s Season 6 Journey
By Ani Bundel
It was a big weekend for Game of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams at the London Critic’s Choice Awards, held at the Mayfair hotel. She picked up the award for Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performance in The Falling last summer. She was joined by other high profile winners like Tom Hardy and Saoirse Ronan, who won for British/Irish Actor and Actress of the year, respectively.
Ever the fashionista, Williams showed up in a Markus Lupfer mini, festooned with…embroidered cut outs of Mexican Lucha Libre fighters.
But more importantly, Williams was interviewed on the red carpet on her way into the event. And though she was nominated for her turn in The Falling, and her most recent television appearance was in Doctor Who Series 9, (she and Clara flew off together in their own TARDIS shaped like an American diner, natch), it turns out all anyone wanted to ask her about was Game of Thrones Season 6.
Funny how she admits she knew this time last year that going into Season 6 her character would be blind, but it wasn’t until the reality of wearing the contacts for filming Season 6 happened that she realized how awful the experience would be.
HeyUGuys wasn’t the only outlet to film an interview. The Upcoming also got a word in with Williams, and of course, asked her about her continuing “Jon Snow is dead and everything is terrible” stance she has been stubbornly sticking to. (And yes, they spelled Jon Snow wrong.) The video is edited so that after the first couple of questions, it’s all her answers without the questions asked. The relevant-to-Game of Thrones section starts at 2:19.
Note her bit about “People say “But Jon Snow is still alive, right?” followed by a bit about “….it’s a great twist.” I’m pretty sure she means that Snow dying is a great twist, not that they will be bringing him back to life. (Though that too would be a great twist.) It’s a bit difficult to put her responses into context without the questions.
(And if you’re wondering who she’s talking about killing at 3:04, at that point the interview had moved on to Doctor Who, where William’s character was responsible for Clara Oswald’s demise.)