Game Of Thrones’ Sophie Turner ‘cried for hours and hours’ after filming Sansa Stark’s final scenes for season eight
GAME of Thrones star Sophie Turner has revealed that she “cried for hours and hours” after filming her final scenes for season eight.
Sansa Stark is in the thick of the battle at Winterfell as the Night King marches south to meet the resistance to the army of White Walkers.
“I couldn’t control myself! I cried for hours and hours once it wrapped,” Sophie told .
“It was like leaving behind a character that I’ve grown up with. It’s almost like a death.”
Meanwhile, Sophie’s on-screen sister Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, said the long night shoots were gruelling.
“All the training in the world couldn’t have prepared me for the amount of stamina you needed for these night shoots,” she told the fashion magazine.
“It gets to the point where it’s four o’clock in the morning and you’re looking around like, ‘This is ridiculous. What are we doing?'”
Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne of Tarth also gave some hints about what to expect from the new series.
“I do see Brienne of Tarth as a modern day Joan of Arc,” she said.
But will she break the sexual tension with Jaime Lannister or Wildling Tormund?
“What I will say is, I’m happy to see more of Brienne of Tarth the woman explored this season,” she teases.
Earlier this week fans became convinced that Arya will fight the Night King alone during the epic battle in Winterfell.
The trailer for the final series begins with the young assassin fleeing in the catacombs in Winterfell from an unknown attacker.
The youngest Stark sister, played by Maisie Williams, was seen running for her life from a shadow in the crypts with blood spattered across her face.
“I know death. He’s got many faces,” she says, holding dragon glass and speaking to someone off-screen.
“I look forward to seeing this one.”
And fans have rushed to Twitter to predict that Arya will fight the Night King as her brother Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen are nowhere to be seen.
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Other fans have reasoned that Arya wouldn’t be afraid of a human.
One Reddit user posted: “She wouldn’t be that scared of any human. Sure, she may run from a human, but her face is sheer terror.
“Whatever she’s running from, it has to be something waaaay worse than anything she’s seen before!”
Fans of the HBO epic fantasy series have gone into overdrive as the first proper footage of the six-part final season has been released online giving huge hints about what is to come in the secretive series.
It sees the moment Sansa Stark appears to decide to betray Jon and Daenerys as she glares at them as they both walk towards their dragons.
Jon Snow and Queen Daenerys are then seen riding with their armies together as her two remaining dragons fly around them.
Lady Sansa Stark looks curiously at the dragons and her cousin Jon, potentially hinting at her betraying them both to seize the throne for herself.
Beaten and bloody she runs before it cuts to another scene where she holds her sword and says: “I know death. He’s got many faces, I look forward to seeing this one.”
The trailer also appears to show Bran, who was left unable to walk in the first episode, seemingly walking at Winterfell as he surveys the troops.
He says: “Everything that you did brought you where you are now. Where you belong. Home.”
Gendry is briefly seen as he makes more weapons able to kill the White Walkers for the armies.
A huge battle is previewed as a White Walker can be seen viciously cutting through the North men in battle.
Jon runs into battle and there’s a hint of a shadow next to him that could be Arya as she faces the White Walkers with her dragonglass blade.
Meanwhile Jaimie Lannister finally arrives in The North and pledges to fight for the living after fleeing from his sister Cersei’s cruel plan to destroy the country so she can keep her throne.
He says: “I promise to fight for the living and I intend to keep that promise.”
Back in King’s Landing Cersei drinks wine in the great hall filled with fire pits after winter arrived,, perhaps confirming she is no longer pregnant.
The trailer ends with frozencloven feet stomping on the ground as the Night King’s armies arrive in Winterfell.
* The final series of Game of Thrones begins on April 15 on Sky Atlantic. You can also watch on NOW TV, with an Entertainment pass.
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