Maisie Williams on Game of Thrones Season 7: “People should be very, very excited.”

This morning, Maisie Williams stopped by The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio. Their conversation covered topics from awards show appearances to Netflix to Bono, but we’re here for the Game of Thrones chatter. Let’s look at the most interesting parts.

First up, Grimshaw asked Williams what, if anything, she knows about the ending of the series.

"None…And I make educated guesses and we try and get answers and bits of information and knowledge from the writers, but they keep it very close to their chest. But it’s so exciting, and particularly the end of this series, it’s just a great finale, and it makes me excited for the series after. Cause I’m, like, one season ahead of everyone else, and so, I get the scripts and it’s all really exciting, cause it’s all stuff that no one’s seen before, but then as soon as you’ve read it, you’re like, ‘But I want the next season now.’…People should be very, very excited."

We’re months out from the debut of Game of Thrones Season 7 and Williams is already hyping the season finale. Hopefully it’s just that good.

At this juncture, we remind you that Williams is a born hype-woman. Here’s what she tweeted immediately after reading the Season 7 scripts:

When she gets her hands on the Season 8 scripts, we suspect she’ll melt the internet.

Another question from Grimshaw: do cast members speculate about where the story is going when not shooting?

"All the time! And we go out for drinks and stuff, and we just end up just talking about the show, and then because we’re a season ahead, like, we have to really watch what we’re saying because you don’t know who’s listening to your conversation…Because we’ve been on this show from the beginning, like, you forget that it is so popular, and so when you start chatting about, like, possible storylines, you, like, realize, ‘Oh, I should actually keep this quiet. Cause people are gonna think we actually know what’s gonna happen.’ Even though we’re just speculating like everybody else."

Williams is pretty breathless throughout this stretch of the interview, by the way. She truly does sound excited. Head here to listen to the full show—Williams’ portion starts around the 2:04:00-minute mark, and runs for about 20 minutes, with a music break in the middle.

Other takeaways

• Is it fun, as an actor, to not know what’s coming next? “Yeah, it is, but then you’re also like, ‘Am I gonna die?'”
• Williams and Grimshaw talk a bit about this photo from the Golden Globes, where Sophie Turner helps fix Williams’ dress:

• “We’re so close. It’s really nice for the red carpet cause it’s kind of scary out there, and there’s loads of people screaming and shouting, and when you got, like, your bestie next to you, it’s like the best thing ever. Best best best!”
• While hitting the red carpet, Williams also ran into the child actors from Stranger Things. As someone who started as a child actor, she knows what they’re going through. “You go from being a child who has to ask and put their hand up to go to the bathroom to then, like, being treated like an adult in a working environment. It is like a bit of a, a bit of a mind…I can’t say that word.” We know what you meant.
• What TV shows is Williams currently into? Netflix’s Black Mirror and Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race.
• She also talks a little about iBoy, a movie to be released on Netflix at the end of this month. It’s about a teenager who makes up from an accident to discover he has control over technology. Williams plays his best friend. The trailer:

Circling back to Sophie Turner, stories from her hangout sessions with Williams are many. Williams tells two:

• Williams and Turner once went backstage at a U2 concert and met Bono. Williams introduced herself as Maisie, and then started to say, “What’s your name?” to Bono. And he answered. Turner has never let her forget it.
• Also, Williams and Turner apparently choose a new accent each season and speak to each other in that accent all year. This year, it was a Yorkshire accent that turned into a fratboy accent, as tends to happen.