Did Maisie Williams think Arya would kill Sansa in season 7?
Admit it: when you watched the sisterly drama unfold between Arya and Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones season 7, there was a moment when you thought, “Arya might actually kill her!” Well, if you did, you weren’t alone. Maisie Williams (Arya) thought that too when she first read the scripts.
“I guess for a minute I thought, ‘Maybe’,” Williams told Metro. “But then I also thought that would be awful and there would be uproar.”
"I did for a minute. I don’t know, but you just read on. You just keep going. You can’t stop. I guess the difference is that when you read the script you don’t get the same suspense, because you can just pick up the next one. There is a little suspense, but it’s not the same."
For fans, that suspense lasted for a few weeks, although I wonder how many actually thought Game of Thrones would go there. Even on a show where a father burns his daughter at the stake and a pregnant woman is stabbed in the stomach at a wedding, one Stark sister killing the other would indeed have caused an uproar, to put it mildly. But we could be forgiven for thinking they might take the story in that direction after that scene where Arya talks about taking Sansa’s face and living in her skin.
Happily, the two sisters pulled themselves out of that tailspin before the end of the season, compared notes, and put Littlefinger to death for the many crimes he’d committed against their family. And thus we’re set up for season 8, for which Williams is currently in the middle of filming 12 weeks of night shoots. At the least, that means she’ll be well-represented in season 8 — 12 weeks is a long time — although we can’t speak to how well she’ll get along. The night is dark and full of SPOILERS, after all.
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