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Maisie Williams Resented Playing Arya Stark on ‘Game Of Thrones’

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Updated on June 17, 2023

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Maisie Williams’ career as an actor was boosted by Game of Thrones, but the Arya Stark interpreter doesn’t miss the show.

The 24-year-old actress has spoken up about her breakthrough on HBO’s blockbuster fantasy series and how tough it was for her to go through adolescence in public.

Williams rose to prominence as a tomboy who was on a quest to revenge her family. She recently appeared in the superhero horror thriller “The New Mutants.”

Williams was asked which element of her job on Game of Thrones she misses in an interview with GQ magazine, and she quickly answered:

‘I don’t believe it’s healthy [to miss it], since I loved it, and I look back on it with such fondness and pride.

It’s reasonable that Williams regards her time on the program as one of the most formative experiences of her life and wishes to remember it fondly. Williams began her acting career at the age of 12 on the first season of Game of Thrones. She essentially grew up in front of an international audience of millions. During her time there, the actor developed deep bonds with her co-star and fictional sister Sophie Turner. Despite the fact that she appears to be raving about her time on the show, Williams has previously expressed remorse for not being a key player in the assassination of Queen Cersei (Lena Heady), even to the detriment of her own character.

Williams, on the other hand, said that playing Arya affected her body image and that her love for the role began to diminish. “I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming,” the 24-year-old English actress explained.

“And then I also resented my body, because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated.”

Williams also discussed how portraying Arya forced her to suffer with body concerns in an interview with Vogue in 2019.

“Around season 2 or 3, my body started to mature and I started to become a woman,” Williams said.

Game of Thrones premiered on HBO in 2011 and is based on author George R.R. Martin’s unfinished A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. The show was an international sensation and lasted eight seasons. The series finished in 2019, with over 19 million people watching the last episode.

Maisie will now play a completely different character in the six-part Sex Pistols series, in which she will go braless in n-ked sequences.