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Maisie Williams to play punk icon Jordan in Sex Pistols series

By Dan Selcke

Jan 29, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Maisie Williamsarrives at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium. Mandatory Credit: Dan MacMedan-USA TODAY NETWORK -- English model and actress Pamela Rooke, also known as Jordan, smoking a cigarette, UK, 28th February 1978. (Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Jan 29, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Maisie Williamsarrives at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium. Mandatory Credit: Dan MacMedan-USA TODAY NETWORK -- English model and actress Pamela Rooke, also known as Jordan, smoking a cigarette, UK, 28th February 1978. (Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) /
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Game of Thrones veteran Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) will play bleached blonde punk icon Jordan in a new series about the Sex Pistols.

In 2019, director Danny Boyle made Yesterday, a movie all about the Beatles. Now, he’s moving on to the punk movement of the 1970s with Pistol, an FX series all about iconic British punk band the Sex Pistols.

There’s no release date for the six-episode limited series, but the Sex Pistols were known for being raucous beyond belief, so it should make for good watching. The main character is guitarist Steve Jones, who will be played by Toby Wallace. Anson Boon will play singer Johnny Rotten, Louis Patridge is bassist Sid Vicious, The Witcher veteran Emma Appleton is his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, Jacob Slater is drummer Paul Cook; Fabien Frankel is bass guitarist Glen Matlock, and Dylan Llewellyn is Wally Nightingale, who founded the band that would eventually become the Sex Pistols.

Most notably for Game of Thrones fans, Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) will play Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan, who with her bleached blonde hairdo is credited with helping to create the punk aesthetic.

English model and actress Pamela Rooke, also known as Jordan, smoking a cigarette, UK, 28th February 1978.(Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
English model and actress Pamela Rooke, also known as Jordan, smoking a cigarette, UK, 28th February 1978.(Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) /

Already looking forward to this.

“Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent,” Danny Boyle said in a statement. “This is the moment that British society and culture changed forever. It is the detonation point for British street culture…where ordinary young people had the stage and vented their fury and their fashion…and everyone had to watch & listen…and everyone feared them or followed them. The Sex Pistols. At its center was a young charming illiterate kleptomaniac—a hero for the times—Steve Jones, who became in his own words, the 94th greatest guitarist of all time. This is how he got there.”

The series is based on Jones’ book Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, so apparently he got over that illiteracy bit. Good for him.

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