“I called Maisie and was like: ‘Have you read it yet?'”
“And she’s like, ‘I’m midway through episode one.’
And I’m like:Thisscene,thispage,read it!
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She was very happy.”
So I just read that and it was practically all I knew about the entire season."
“At first, I thought it was a prank,” the former Emmy nominee says.
“I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’
And [the showrunners were] like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’
Oh, f–k!”
When do I shoot this?
I need to go to the gym.’
A whole list of things."
There was a sensitive pragmatic question that needed to be answered, however.
To put it bluntly: Was Arya going to be naked on camera?
The 22-year-old Williams joinedThroneswhen she was 12 and has grown up in front of fans.
Williams says the showrunners let her decide precisely how much to show.
“So I kept myself pretty private.
I don’t think it’s important for Arya to flash.
This beat isn’t really about that.
“In the beginning, everyone was really respectful,” she says.
“You want people to act more normal.”
Continues Williams: “Then [the scene] was rushed.
We were [directed by] David Nutter, who has a habit of speaking fast anyway.
And I’m like … ‘Okay.
Let’s do it.'”
“At the same time, I don’t want to be patronizing toward Maisieshe’s a 20-year-old woman.
So we just had a lot of fun with it.”
Year after year, Arya has been laser-focused on survival, training, and revenge.
“It was really interesting because it’s a very human relationship for Arya,” Williams says.
This may be is a moment where Arya accepts death tomorrow, which she never does’Not Today.
