The actress who played Sansa Stark for almost a decade began working on the series when she was a teenager.
When HBO began work on what would later become one of the most lucrative series of all time, Sophie Turner was only 14 years old. At that time, the young woman was going to drama classes in high school, but she had not been thoroughly prepared to be part of the show, like other celebrities who started appearing in the media as children or had attended more auditions than they could. to remember.
Now, at 23 years old, the actress who became known throughout the world for playing Sansa Stark faces a new challenge: shake off the character she played for almost a decade and not fall into typecasting.
And there it is: these days, Turner is promoting her new movie, Dark Phoenix, in which she plays Jean Grey, a villain who will place her on a different spectrum. “Going from Game of Thrones to X-Men was like graduating first from one school and then another. Game of Thrones was the best acting school I could have had, ”she acknowledged. "He taught me everything I know."
In fact, she has also recognized that her education as an actress was nothing to write home about. “I had only gone to an hour-long acting class before I got hired on Game of Thrones,” Turner admitted to The Daily Telegraph.
But luck and her innate talent allowed her to learn at a forced pace; she surely in the best possible way, acting and facing the harsh conditions of a shoot. And now she just needs to keep working; but, without a doubt, the most difficult thing she has already done.
