Lady of Winterfell

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The GOT cast talking about Sophie.

David Benioff

“Sansa. She started out so naive and was forced to undergo the most brutal possible education into the world but emerged from it and became this powerful figure and kind of against all odds. I don’t think too many people watching the first season had any expectation that Sansa would become the woman that she became. And part of that is the story and part of that is Sophie Turner and the phenom she turned out to be as an actress. We knew when we cast Sophie that she was this really good child actor but we had no idea she’d become the force that’s she’s become. So if I had to pick one, I’d pick Sansa.”

John Bradley

“Sophie’s sustain performance over the course of this series is my favorite performance, because she makes you feel everything she is feeling; and she is one of those people who really makes you care about the character because she has a kind of magical quality to her.”

Peter Dinklage

“I’m just lucky enough to work with people like Sophie Turner, who is just, I think, one of my favourite actors”

”Sophie’s the best! I had so much fun working with her.”

“Sophie has a beautiful stillness to her as an actor that’s incredibly rare. From the start as a very young girl she had such discipline. One minute she could be dancing and singing a musical number and the instant they are camera ready she can flip the switch and dig so deep emotionally. That’s a gift.”

Pedro Pascal

“[On the funniest actor behind the scenes] Oh my god, so many of them are so funny. The entire cast is very very witty and a fun cast, so this is very hard to choose, but I guess something that people might not expect is that Sophie Turner had me in stitches a lot of the time. I’m not sure if she was trying to be funny but she was still making me laugh.”

Lena Headey

“Sophie’s confidence has grown, and rightly so. She has a genuine ability to be vulnerable, which is rare and lovely. Her work isn’t forced, its natural and open. Also, THAT face!”

Sibel Kekilli

“She’s like every 17-year-old girl, freaking out for Justin Bieber. [Laughs] She makes jokes of my English. She keeps telling me wrong words in English, and I believe her, so I will use these words, and in the end, she’ll start to laugh at me. “These are the wrong English words. I was just making fun of you.” That’s really mean! But that’s Sophie. I love her.”

“I love Sophie! I feel like a mother—she’s growing so fast! She’s so tall, too! She was a kid in the first season, and now she’s a young woman, even more beautiful. I feel like I have to take care of her in private life. I love her.”

“Last season, she had a really difficult scene where she had to cry as she watched Littlefinger’s ship leave without her. It was such a heartbreaking scene, and she did it so well—she couldn’t stop crying! She’s a really good actress.” “I got to see a lot of great actors — young actors — children, like Sophie (Turner). Seeing her grow up was very special.”

Natalie Dormer

“I have this sincere love and respect for this wonderful blossoming that’s happening in young Sophie as an actress”

“I remember this day and I remember the way Sophie, on her own, completely naturally cried on and off for hours. It was the most beautiful, natural performance. I know teenagers, they have hormones going around, but it was natural tears the entire time. She was beautiful”

Kit Harington

“I was with Kit in many sittings when he was talking about how much he hoped he’d get a chance to play a scene with Sophie Turner. So I was privy to the information that [Harington and Turner] weren’t for a while,” Sackheim recalls.

When the actors finally got the script for “Book of the Stranger,” they were thrilled to see Sansa and Jon reuniting - and to share their first scene together in the show’s history. “[They] talked about it all the time,” Sackheim says, “the sort of weirdness of it and the joy of finally coming together.”

“I hope we´re all still working. I´d love to work with Sophie again, but are people only going to see Jon and Sansa? What i hope is that we are still in touch”

Maisie Williams

The Queen in the North

Yet she stepped out all the same.”

- ASOS, Sansa VII

YET SHE STEPPED OUT ALL THE SAME.

I love this passage, because Sansa is CHOOSING to continue to pursue goodness and purity even after she believes herself to be sullied by the cruelties she’s endured. No matter how many people try to violently wrench her away from her idealism, she is still drawn in that direction purely by instinct, and it will be her salvation.

some AU

‘His uncle’s part went less well. The bride’s cloak he held was huge and heavy, crimson velvet richly worked with lions and bordered with gold satin and rubies. No one had thought to bring a stool, however, and Tyrion stood a foot and a half shorter than his bride. As he moved behind her, Sansa felt a sharp tug on her skirt. He wants me to kneel, she realized, blushing. She was mortified. It was not supposed to be this way. She had dreamed of her wedding a thousand times, and always she had pictured how her betrothed would stand behind her tall and strong, sweep the cloak of his protection over her shoulders, and tenderly kiss her cheek as he leaned forward to fasten the clasp.

She felt another tug at her skirt, more insistent. I won’t. Why should I spare his feelings, when no one cares about mine?

The dwarf tugged at her a third time. Stubbornly she pressed her lips together and pretended not to notice. Someone behind them tittered. The queen, she thought, but it didn’t matter. They were all laughing by then, Joffrey the loudest. “Dontos, down on your hands and knees,” the king commanded. “My uncle needs a boost to climb his bride.”

And so it was that her lord husband cloaked her in the colors of House Lannister whilst standing on the back of a fool.

When Sansa turned, the little man was gazing up at her, his mouth tight, his face as red as her cloak. Suddenly she was ashamed of her stubbornness. She smoothed her skirts and knelt in front of him, so their heads were on the same level. “With this kiss I pledge my love, and take you for my lord and husband.”’

-Sansa III, A Storm of Swords

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Sansa has been psychologically, mentally, and physically abused for about a year now. She had hopes for escaping to Highgarden with the Tyrells, who truthfully only wanted her claim but at least would not mistreat her, and she would have freedom in a safe, beautiful home. That one fragile hope is shattered when the Lannisters get word of this and force her to marry Tyrion, who’s not as bad as Joffrey but is still her family’s enemy and twice her age, in order to keep hold of her birthright.

This is not Sansa “"being mean”“ to the guy marrying a 12 year old POW bride. This is Sansa refusing to kneel during the ceremony, the only way she can keep a little of the dignity her abusers have worked so hard to take away. The only way she can visibly protest being married against her will and have her identity- inner of the few things she has left with her family missing or dead- stripped away from her and her ancestral home stolen.