Sophie Turner became a successful actress at just 14 years old when she started playing Sansa Stark on HBO's once-in-a-generation fantasy hit Game of Thrones. She was 23 by her time as Sansa came to an end. Now 29, she looked back on the show during a visit to the Dish podcast.
“I loved it. I did love making it," Turner told hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett. "It was it, it was like, it was the best acting class I’ve ever had. Cause I never had like proper, formal training, so I got to learn from the amazing actors around me, which was like, I felt like I’d won, you know, a competition or something.”
"It was great. It was like we all were a family and the character I got to live with for 10 years, so it felt like we kind of merged into one person by the end of it. But it was amazing. It informed my entire life in terms of like business decisions, just etiquette on set, how to act, everything, everything I learned from Game of Thrones. And a bit from my parents."
As much as she enjoyed making the show, Turner admitted that she'd never actually watched the series, according to PEOPLE. And that's fine; she lived it while the rest of us were tuning in week after week.
Turner also touched on the show's many sex scenes, something the series was famous for. Cutting right to he point, she described some of them as "really crazy s***."
"I definitely got my sex education from that show. More, more than enough."
Turner was involved in one of the most controversial scenes from the eight-season run of Game of Thrones: Sansa's wedding night to Ramsey Bolton in the season 5 episode "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken," which ended with Ramsey abusing Sansa. That scene ignited a firestorm of discourse when it aired in 2015. "Really crazy s***" barely scratches the surface.
Turner has kept appearing onscreen since Game of Thrones, winning the lead role in shows like Joan. She sounds open to the idea of returning to play Sansa Stark again someday, but only if the conditions are right. "I loved playing Sansa, and I do wonder often what would she be doing now," Turner said last year. "Where would she be five years later, what would she be doing? Would she still be queen in the North? Would she be a good ruler? Would there be some other kind of terrible war that’s happened? I’d love to see it."
I wouldn't mind seeing it either. Until then, you can stream all eight season of Game of Thrones on HBO Max.
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