On Sunday night, the millions of viewers of the hit HBO series only talked about one thing: the intim-te moment between Maisie Williams and Joe Dempsie. SPOILER ALERT
Game Of Thrones fans never expected to see a s-x scene starring Arya Stark. There were many Twitter users who described as "strange" and "uncomfortable" the scene in which the character played by Maisie Williams loses her virginity in the second episode of the last and eighth season.
The younger Stark sister slept with her longtime friend, Gendry (Joe Dempsie), in an unexpected scene from the Sunday night training episode.
Arya (Williams) and Gendry (Dempsie), who is the bastard son of the late Robert Baratheon, had s-x as Winterfell prepares for a battle against the Night King.
After asking her friend about her past lovers, Arya reveals that she's a virgin: "We're going to die soon. I'd like to know what she's like before that happens." After that powerful dialogue, the characters take off their clothes and get carried away by passion.
What was "uncomfortable" or "strange" for fans of the acclaimed HBO show was that Maisie Williams began filming the series when she was a child and her fans watched her grow through the eight seasons. Apparently, many still see her as a teenager and did not expect to see her in such a scene.
Other Twitter users, on the other hand, laughed at the end of the scene in which Arya can be seen looking to the side while Gendry sleeps.
Some fans were surprised to see Arya, who was 11 when the show started, in a n-de scene, as she felt like "seeing a little sister."
"An Arya s-x scene is something they could have avoided", "The s-x scene between Arya and Gendry felt a little weird", were some of the tweets.
The followers of the series automatically remembered the moment of the first episode of the first season, when the then King Robert Baratheon tells Arya's father, Nedd Stark: "I have a son, you have a daughter. We will unite our houses."
At the time, the two were talking about Arya's older sister Sansa (Sophie Turner) and heir Joffrey, but it seems the scene may have heralded another relationship.
Asked about this scene, Williams, now 22, acknowledged that her s-x scene took her by surprise when she received the script: "At first, I thought it was a joke," the actress told Entertainment Weekly. And then she recounted that Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss let her limit the level of n-dity in the shot of her so she would feel as comfortable as possible.
The fact that Williams had been a part of the cast since she was 11, essentially growing up alongside her co-stars, was also weird for her partner. "Obviously it's a little weird for me because I've known Maisie since she was 11, 12 years old," Dempsie explained. "At the same time, I don't want to patronize Maisie, she's a 22-year-old woman. So we had a lot of fun."
"This is maybe a moment where Arya accepts death, and she never does. The moment where she says, 'We're probably going to die tomorrow, I want to know what this feels like before that happens.' It's interesting." see that Arya is a little more human," Williams mused.
In the episode, which aired on Sunday night, tensions can also be seen rising between the Starks and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) when the future Queen of the Seven Kingdoms discovers that her lover, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) , is his nephew, and the last Targaryen heir.
