Sophie Turner: “So many characters’ paths intertwine this season”

Interviews continue to leak out from the SAG Awards, where several members of the Game of Thrones cast were present. HBO must have given the cast some kind of go-ahead, because everyone seems to be turning up the hype lately.

Just recently, Sophie Turner has been at the center of that hype, saying that Season 6 is a “big one for Sansa,” and that the character “commands the respect that she deserves.” She teased the season more generally when questioned by Access Hollywood at Entertainment Weekly pre-SAG party.

Some interesting quotes there.

"Every scene I shot I couldn’t believe that I was shooting this scene with these amazing people, and I couldn’t believe that the storylines had intertwined so much that this is how it ends up. So many character’s paths intertwine this season…You really get a sense that the story is coming together and rounding up this time."

Before Season 5 aired, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss teased it as “a big East-meets-West season,” meaning that it would see characters long separated by geography being yoked together. In that same interview, they said that “this is a show with a beginning, a middle and an end. We know what the end is, and we’re heading toward it now.”

That was before Season 5, so we’re even closer to the end now, and it’s only natural to expect characters to keep coming together and set up for the endgame of the show. Sansa herself already shared screen-time with several new characters last year, from Roose Bolton to Ramsay Bolton to Theon.* If spoilers are any indication, she’ll be mixing it up with even more new people in Season 6. And I’m willing to bet there’s more intermingling we haven’t caught wind of.

And now, a roll call of choice quotes about the coming season, as teasing season goes into overdrive:

• Emilia Clarke: “It’s just go, go, go, go. Shocking moment to shocking moment. Epic moment to epic moment. It’s mental; it’s epic.”
• Liam Cunningham: “[T]his is going to be a tough season to watch.”
• Sophie Turner: “So many character’s paths intertwine this season.”

So Season 6 will feature characters coming together and doing epic things that are hard to watch. Sounds terrifying. Bring it on.

h/t Rolling Stone

*True, Sansa and Theon grew up in Winterfell together, but Sophie Turner and Alfie Allen never shared a scene together before Season 5.