‘Game of Thrones’ star Maisie Williams assumed Arya Stark was in line – The Hollywood Reporter

Maisie Williams revealed that she was a bit taken aback by a certain decision she made Game of Thrones character in the final season of the popular HBO show.

Williams, who played Arya Stark for eight seasons of the Emmy-winning series, told Teen magazine In a video interview posted online Tuesday that, until the sex scene with Gendry Baratheon, played by Joe Dempsie, she assumed her character identified as gay. . In the eighth episode, titled “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” which aired in April 2019, Arya and Gendry became intimate while anticipating the Battle of Winterfell.

“The first time I was surprised by Arya, I guess it was probably in the last series where she undressed and slept with Gendry,” Williams told the outlet. “I thought Arya was weird, you know? So… yes. It was a surprise. ”

Come back when Game of Thrones the first episode aired, the actress said Weekly entertainment that she was surprised when she read a sex scene for her character and assumed it was written as a joke by the show’s team.

“I was reading through and I was reading that scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym. ‘ she said at the time.

Williams recently shared a series of thoughts on her time on the hugely popular series. In April, she told Anh GQ that she recalls having complex feelings about her character.

“I think when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming,” she said. “And then I also resented my body, because it didn’t fit the piece of me the world had glorified.”