The one movie Sophie Turner is desperate to make: “It’s such a spectacle”
As we welcome another Game of Thrones spin-off to our screens in the form of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, why don’t we cast our minds back to what the OG was like when it arrived back in 2011, featuring the then unknown cast of Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke and Sophie Turner.
It was a complete game changer really; previously tales of dragons and warriors had pretty much been the reserve of Lord of the Rings and those chaps you see in death metal T-shirts outside Warhammer on the high street eating chicken bakes from Greggs, but Game of Thrones suddenly made it cool for everyone to get involved, featuring as it did buckets full of blood, sex, swearing and the jaw-dropping killing of a main character at the end of the first series.
Thankfully, Turner did not go the way of Sean Bean in having her head lopped off and having to do O2 voiceovers for all eternity, but instead saw things through to the bitter end as Sansa Stark, a character who went on an exhaustingly comprehensive narrative arc over eight seasons, going from tentative teen to ‘do not mess whatever you do’ Queen.
Turner was superb in Game of Thrones, and by the end of it, alongside the other leading cast members, she was pulling in a reported $1million an episode, and unsurprisingly, it attracted the attention of casting directors in Hollywood. Since George RR Martin’s show came to an end, she has appeared in a range of TV and movies, including a big role in the X-Men movie Dark Phoenix in 2019 as telepathic mutant Jean Grey.
One direction she hasn’t taken as yet is into Indian cinema, but once told Firstpost: “Shah Rukh Khan is the GOAT, I love Deepika Padukone…she is amazing”.
“I loved watching RRR, I would love to be a part of a Bollywood movie… I would love to be a part of the song and dance, it’s such a spectacle… it is unlike anything we will ever see on a Western film set.”
RRR was an epic period drama directed by SS Rajamouli that stands as one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time, and thanks to the victory in the ‘Best Original Song’ category at the following year’s Academy Awards ceremony, it also became the first Indian film to ever win an Oscar.
Turner, meanwhile, is busy filming the latest Tomb Raider reboot for Prime Video in her lead role as video game legend Lara Croft. She’ll also be seen on the same streaming site this month in the long-delayed Steal, a series co-starring Saltburn’s Archie Madekwe about an office worker who gets unwittingly caught up in a major heist.
Game of Thrones fans will also be excited to know that she’s also teamed up with Harington once again for a film called The Dreadful, which hopefully proves to be anything but. It’s a gothic horror set in the 15th century during the War of the Roses, and apparently Harrington was brought in on the recommendation of Turner herself.
It’s due to have a release in a limited number of cinemas in the UK and then straight onto home video at the tail end of February this year.
