Earlier this week, Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark on Game of Thrones, made headlines for her reaction to finishing the scripts for Season 7. “…start preparing yourselves now,” she warned, before reconsidering. “Scratch that, nothing will prepare you for this.”
Williams might have a chance to prepare herself for Season 7, but she wasn’t prepared to finally break through on the Emmy front. Speaking to Variety on her Supporting Actress nod for her work last year on Game of Thrones Season 6, she called learning she had been nominated “mindblowing.”
…it’s not something that happens all the time because I won’t be young forever, so it means an awful lot to be 19 years old. And there will be people younger than me who have been nominated and younger people than me that have won — it’s not about that … just to be a part of young actors being acknowledged is very special.
Talking about her experience in Season 6, the blind contacts come up again as probably the hardest part of filming. (Williams has been very open about how hard they were to work in both before and during last season.) She also praises Faye Marsay as a sparring partner in all her fight scenes, as she has done all year. One topic that does come up that she hasn’t discussed much is that surprise ending in the finale when Arya turns up wearing the face of a serving girl at The Twins and proceeds to murder both Walder Frey’s sons, and then the old man himself (after serving said dead sons to him in a pie.)
Everyone, from all departments, said, “you have got the best kill of any kill ever. I don’t think there’s a single person in the world that won’t be thrilled that Walder Frey is gone,” so it felt very, very good. It was such a fun day – so many things just went so well with that scene. There’s this one take where we did a close-up and I slit his throat and he’s bleeding out and I got this perfect little speck of blood just above my collarbone on my neck…. And Fabian [Wagner, the show’s director of photography], the way he lit me in that scene, I was so stoic and cool – a lot of things went really right and it got a great reaction.
On whether the audience should be cheering on Arya or worried going into next season, Williams quotes Kit Harington from one of his interviews earlier this year on Jon Snow snapping and beating Ramsay Bolton to a pulp in “Battle of the Bastards.”
…it’s sad when our heroes take it too far and they don’t just do their job, they actually enjoy it and you see a twisted spark behind the eyes. It’s worrying. I think it’s worrying because I care about this little girl, and she is still a little girl.
As for Season 7, Williams says it would be nice to have Arya go home to a Stark family reunion (even if she thinks Jon would have no idea what to do with Arya in the slightest.) “But I just want her to see Melisandre or Cersei and not be dead at the end of it. To cross another big name off the list”. And as for the longer wait for the shorter season:
Good things must come to an end or they’re not good anymore. It doesn’t last forever and we’ve done what we came to do, it’s time to wrap this up, and it will have the ending it was always supposed to have, and that’s very special.
A surprisingly positive note considering what must be coming at the end of this coming season. The wait isn’t getting any shorter guys.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/08/28/maisie-williams-talks-the-end-of-game-of-thrones/
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