The Game of Thrones star talks to Sophie Heawood about living her teens as Arya Stark, why she’s everyone’s favourite assassin – and her new role as a start-up whizz
When Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner, who play Arya Stark and her sister Sansa in Game of Thrones, were filming the final series of the epic TV drama in Northern Ireland, they would head to their hotel after work armed with a Tesco meal deal and get cosy in the same bed, like best friends on a sleepover, every single night. Sometimes they’d ring Philip on reception and send him back to the shop for chocolate, “and then he’d come upstairs and we’d all have Cadbury’s Buttons together,” recalls Williams, 21, smiling so sweetly at the memory I wonder if she realises how much it sounds like the start of a soft-porn film. She probably does, given the past decade has effectively trained her in the shadows that can lurk beneath innocent exterior; her character progressing from cute little sister to ruthless serial killer (of 64 victims). Although, as Williams puts it cheerily, because Arya only kills the baddies who really deserve it, “She’s the serial killer everyone’s rooting for.”
We meet in east London, not far from the Shoreditch office where Williams now runs a digital startup company called Daisie, to rhyme with her nickname (her real name is Margaret, but her family noted her likeness to the Perishers cartoon character when she was tiny). Filming on the HBO juggernaut has finally finished; it has dominated her life since she was a Bristol schoolgirl who nearly missed the audition, which clashed with a class trip to a pig farm.
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