Sophie Turner: The past five seasons were all leading up to Sansa’s Season 6 arc

Sansa Stark’s journey in Season 6, from her escape from Winterfell to her murder of Ramsay Bolton to her ambivalence over Jon Snow being crowned King in the North, was one of the more celebrated aspects of Game of Thrones Season 6. She broke it all down to The Wrap’s Steve Pond in a wide-ranging interview.

Let’s hit the highlights. For example, Turner gave her opinion about Sansa’s new take-charge attitude in Season 6.

"I kind of feel like the past five seasons has been leading up to that point for her. I’d always seen the potential in her and it just never felt like she quite reached her full potential. It was almost like a release when I was doing it, and I could finally show everyone her capabilities."

Turner also revealed that she always suspected that Sansa was going to have a breakout moment, not so much because the writers told her, but because it just felt right. “I just thought, if she’d been killed off, what’s really been the point?” she asked. “I just kinda had an inkling that she was going to do something great.

"So I was really pleased when I got the scripts for the sixth season…I was just kind of living in fear that she would die and she would have really had no real part in playing the game…so it was nice to see her become a player."

As expected, Turner didn’t give any secrets away for next season, but did say that she wished Sansa and Jon Snow could have ruled the North together “as a double act, Queen in the North and King in the North,” saying that the Starks were stronger when they were together.  Turner would also love it if Sansa and Arya reunited, although after being on this show for six years, she’s not getting her hopes up.

"I feel like it has to happen, but at the same time, if it did happen, would it be too obvious? Would it be too much of a good thing? Nothing that satisfactory happens on the show, because it’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ they want to make it dark and depressing and that’s what makes it amazing."

We’ll see how this all shakes down in Season 7.