When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym.’ A whole list of things,” she recounted.įortunately, she had total control as to how much skin she would show.
“I got to the read-through and I’m reading the scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. It wasn’t until the final table read that she was convinced it was a real scene. The two had a history of sending out joke scripts, so Williams’ first response was “Yo, good one,” she recalled. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2019, she told the publication she was sure the scripted scene was just a “prank” put there by series showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss. This wasn’t the first time Williams opened up about being caught off guard by the character’s turn. To be fair, Arya could still be queer (and is in our head canon, anyway) since bisexuality exists. “I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So…yeah. In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, Maisie Williams, who played Arya Stark in the series, shared the moment that left her in shock: “In the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry (Joe Dempsie),” she said. No matter how you feel about the way Game of Thrones wrapped up its final season, one thing everyone can agree on is that the show was always successful in being shocking - and not just for the audience, it turns out.
