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Maisie Williams thought her ‘Game of Thrones’ s-x scene was a prank
The group at Winterfell spent their final night together before the approaching fight against the dead in Episode 2 of Game of Thrones Season 8, which aired on April 21st. It was an episode full with reunions, reflections, and disclosures.
But one of the most surprising scenes in the show occurred when Arya Stark had her first intercourse with Gendry, her very fit Kingsroad comrade. When Maisie Williams first viewed the screenplay for the episode, she had her misgivings about the sequence.
Maisie Williams, who plays Arya, told Entertainment Weekly that she originally mistook it for a prank because showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have been known to send actresses forged screenplays in the past.
“Sophie said, ‘Whatever you do, you have to skip to this episode, this scene first,’” Williams shares. “So I just read that and it was practically all I knew about the entire season.”
However, because hoax narratives have long been a part of the Game of Thrones production process’s security and humor – there was one early fake in season one that had Jon Snow severely maimed – Williams disregarded it out of hand.
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“At first, I thought it was a prank,” she said. “I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’ And [the showrunners were] like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’ Oh f***!”
Williams said she was free to determine how undressed she wanted to be on camera.
After the episode aired, several viewers voiced displeasure at the prospect of Williams, who was 11 years old at the time the show premiered, having to undress in front of staff members who had known her since she was a child. Many others were also compelled to look up Arya’s age on the internet.
Arya and Gendry finally getting together I’ve been wanting this for YEARS this is my time #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/zlFK9By0Vx
— Ashley (@lostinafilmscne) April 22, 2019
“David and Dan were like: ‘You can show as much or as little as you want,’” she said, adding: “So I kept myself pretty private. I don’t think it’s important for Arya to flash. This beat isn’t really about that. And everybody else has already done it on the show, so…”
Williams initially heard about the sequence through her best friend Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on HBO’s blockbuster show Game of Thrones.
“I called Maisie and was like: ‘Have you read it yet?'” Turner told EW. “And she’s like, ‘I’m midway through episode one.’ And I’m like: This scene, this page, read it! This is awesome! She was very happy.”
By the time they came to the table read, Williams said she was wondering whether her character was really getting involved with Joe Dempsie’s character.
“I got to the read-through and I’m reading the scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym.’ A whole list of things.”
Williams went on to say that Gendry’s “very human relationship” with him is a shift for Westeros’ smallest avenging angel of death: “This is something she’s stayed away from, an emotion we’ve never really seen her engage with.”
“David and Dan were like, ‘It’s the end of the world, what else would you have her do?’ This may be is a moment where Arya accepts death tomorrow, which she never does. It’s interesting to see Arya be a bit more human, speak more normally about things people are scared of.”
Williams, who has been on the show since she was 11 years old, is now 22 years old.
She said Benioff and Weiss told her, “You can show as much or as little as you want.”
“So I kept myself pretty private,” Williams said. “I don’t think it’s important for Arya to flash. This beat isn’t really about that. And everybody else has already done it on the show, so…”
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Arya was almost involved in an impossible-to-understand incestuous connection.
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