Sophie Turner Opens Up About Saying Goodbye To Game Of Thrones
Sophie Turner opened up about saying goodbye to her hit series Game Of Thrones. The hit HBO series wrapped filming on the eight and final season earlier this month in Europe. Highlights from the interview are below.
On saying goodbye to Sansa: “It’s like a divorce, or a death in the family, leaving Sansa behind, and leaving people behind. I think the divorce from the character is the hardest thing for me, because my adolescence has just been ‘Sophie and Sansa’. Sometimes, you get both worlds mixed up. So leaving Sansa behind is like leaving a big part of my growing up behind. A lot of it was influenced by her. So it’s really strange not having that crutch to lean on. But I’ll be fine! I’ll be fine! I promise!”
On her last day of filming: “I wrapped shooting in Spain – like, the whole of Game of Thrones. But I remember the first time, when I wrapped in Belfast with the crew that we worked with so often, it was in the Winterfell courtyard. I wasn’t even shooting there, but the director, David Nutter, called me into the courtyard, because he knew it was my last day on set. He said to the whole crew, ‘Sansa Stark is leaving Winterfell for the last time.’ As you can imagine, I bawled my eyes out.”
You can check out even more from her interview here. Game Of Thrones will return for its final season in 2019!