It was his first glimpse of the men of the Stark family, the clan at the center of what would become Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series, and later, one of TV’s most ambitious shows. He was supposed to be taking another stab at a sci-fi novel, but a scene from a different tale somehow came to him: young boys finding orphaned wolf pups in a bloodstained snowdrift. Martin was 42 years old, fresh from a stint writing scripts for a lion-headed Ron Perlman on the CBS drama Beauty and the Beast, with more than a decade’s worth of acclaimed but unprofitable science-fiction, horror and fantasy prose to his name. In the summer of 1991, a genre-novelist-turned-midlevel-TV-writer booted up his already-outdated MS-DOS word processor, ready to create a new world. Every once in a while it would find its way into a scene, and we’d have to remind them Sansa and Arya don’t talk like that.” But they would sometimes talk in this accent all day. “Although they did decide to start talking in a Northern (English) accent, which may be real and may be their own invention - being Americans, we couldn’t tell. “It was great to have two insanely witty people playing off each other between setups,” Benioff and Weiss write. Now that the two actresses are adults, that’s changed. Photograph by Nicole Nodland for ‘Rolling Stone.’ Nicole Nodland for Rolling Stone. I think they really regretted putting us in scenes together. Anytime we tried to be serious about anything, it’s just the hardest thing in the world. “If you’re working with your best friend, you will never get any work done, ever. “We’re a nightmare to work with,” Turner says. The girls were cast to the winds, heartbreakingly unprotected, crossing from innocence to darkest experience in harrowing story arcs that have always been the show’s emotional core.Īfter that, Turner and Williams wouldn’t get to shoot a single scene together again until their characters reunited in 2016 for Season Seven. Arya goes into hiding, disguised as a boy, plotting revenge, while Sansa is betrothed to monstrous child-king Joffrey. Toward the end of Game of Thrones’ first season, the Starks’ lives collapse when royal intrigue leads to the arrest of family patriarch Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) - an all-too-decent man among vipers - on false charges, leading to the prompt removal of his head. But we’re very grateful that it didn’t work out that way, and that they both got to spend all those years with each other, and with us.” As Weiss and Benioff recall in a joint email interview, the girls were distraught at the party: “We remember the both of them bawling and hugging each other, because they loved each other so much after only a few short weeks, and were afraid they’d never see each other again, because the show wouldn’t get picked up.
Turner and Williams, among the youngest cast members, may have been the first to sense something wasn’t right. Weiss realized just in time that it was clunky and hard to follow - they recast several key roles and reshot it, saving their show. That year, Game of Thrones had its very first wrap party, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after cast and crew finished shooting its pilot, an episode that never aired. Sophie was more of a little girl, which she certainly is not anymore.”
“Maisie seemed like a very old soul in a very tiny body. And they could see that all those years ago, and it must have been real magic watching these two girls have the best time together.”Įven in the face of a potentially life-changing audition, “there was a lot of laughter that day,” says Nina Gold, the show’s U.K.-based casting director (who also discovered Daisy Ridley for the current Star Wars trilogy). “I get why they do chemistry reads, because when it’s right, it’s so right. “I thought Sophie was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” says Williams, now 21.
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