Only 5 days left until Game of Thrones Season 6 and Entertainment Weekly is keeping up with their countdown coverage in a new interview with Natalie Dormer. Over at GQ, Sophie Tuner teases raising hell next season.
We last saw Margaery imprisoned below the Red Keep in Season 5 by the Faith Militant. Dormer goes into Margaery’s downfall and how she manages hitting rock bottom.
Over the five years that I’ve played Margaery we’ve seen in her in a lot of sticky situations, but she’s never been out of her depth. She’s always given the impression, at least, of being a step ahead. In season 6, you see her genuinely fearful of how best to handle the situation. She is scared and uncertain. She starts to look unrecognizable in places.
Even her character is haunted by Cersei’s Walk of Shame fearing she could meet the same fate.
The Walk of Shame looms large in Margaery’s brain, that somebody as powerful and savvy and veteran as Cersei can be taken down that way. Margaery doesn’t have the normal comfort zone of courtly politics, being thrown in a jail cell has psychologically broken her, to a certain extent. It’s definitely brought her down, made her desperate.
Dormer discusses her character’s rivalries with Queen Cersei, working with Jonathan Pryce (High Sparrow), and more over at Entertainment Weekly.
Sophie Turner teases changes in Sansa Stark this season with GQ as she takes charge of her own life.
GQ asks: “On a scale of 1 to 10, how badly do you wanna see Sansa fuck shit up this season?”
100% agree. She jokes she’s eager to do some killing herself after seeing her TV sister Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) take revenge into her own hands this past season.
Ugh, yes. Totally. Like the past five seasons, when Maisie is getting to run around with swords and in trousers and stuff, I’m just like, “Gah. Man that looks like so much fun!” But Sansa’s never gonna be doing that. Her weapon is her mind. Her intellect. She’s a sharp one.
Never say never. I’m still holding out hope Sansa gets to stab a certain someone *cough, cough Ramsay cough, cough.*
Turner still radiates a positive attitude even amidst her character’s misfortune:
You do have to go to some headspace to play Sansa. But you leave that at work. I’ll never take that home. Especially because—and people don’t realize this, but—when you’re on set it’s a very jolted thing. It’s not like you’re in that headspace all day. Sometimes you’ll have like two hours in between [set ups] where you’ll go and sit with the rest of the cast, and you can’t just sit there being quiet and miserable all day. It’s a headspace I go to for 15 minutes at a time and I hop right back out of it. It never really affects me too much.
Hodor
Sansa is going to fuck Littlefinger up! Let’s hope we don’t have to wait too long.
All of the misfortunes sansa has coming to her is justified. Go back and reach season 1 for a reminder
lol.. first D& D and now Sophie taking jabs at poor Kit.. new distraction technique me thinks?
and we are with you Sophie.. its past time for Sansa to raise all kinds of hell!
The nasty bits,
Ooh! Are you warming up for today’s Memory Lane?
The nasty bits,
Well, to be honest, I don’t think that any of the mistakes a sheltered thirteen year old makes in the first series justify anything that has happened to her, especially not, you know, her being raped and the murder of her family.
selena,
I did think the hair thing was pretty funny tbh. Better that than another “Jon Snow is dead” interview lol
Nasty bits must be a troll with that funny remark. I really hope that we’re going to have a sensible discussion re UUU later on. (And I say this as one who really liked UUU.)
Lyannaes,
Exactly, good grief troll, get a life and get it somewhere else.
Loved her GQ interview Im not big on superhero movies but I might just go so I can see how Sophie does in it.
I know Sophie has joked about Kit’s hair in the past, but I think “on the show” part of the question was meant to trip her & prove that they spent some time together on set this year. Anyways, great interviews & Sophie is surely becoming my favorite person on the show.
singedbylife,
I highly doubt it hahaha
Sansa’s weapon is her mind and intellect? I’m going to assume she starts using that then this season.? I mean, it’s not like she’s done anything smart on her own yet. Ushered here, ushered there, you’re going to do this, do that… Covering for Littlefinger certainly didn’t turn out to be in her favor as of yet. She’s pretty much just shown to be meek, demure.
I hope Marg die this season
The shoes isn’t he size
The question is, if Sansa does indeed play something of the Lady Stoneheart role, how dark are the powers that be on the show prepared to make it?
I mean, will she go through even more horrible things to send her over the edge and maybe cause her injuries/disfigurement? (I think being killed and brought back ala the original Lady Stoneheart would be a very long shot).
Then, how ruthless will she be in here quest for revenge? Will they make her kinda deranged and crazy in hunting down enemies and those who maybe are not real evil or not a real threat?
Would definitely be par for the course for both Martin and the show runners. And could be very powerful if done well. But I’d imagine they’d get a lot of blowback.
This is already becoming the longest week of 2016! I can’t stand it
The nasty bits,
My apologies for what you’re about to read. I’ve never been much of a fighter.
Sansa was a bit of a brat at times in season 1, but in NO way did she cause this. The one thing I blame her for is Lady’s death, yet at the same time she had to choose to agree with or alienate her future husband/king.
She pushed for Ned to go to King’s Landing due to her “love” of Joffrey, but if you think her begging influenced Ned at all, you’re delusional.
When Ned got caught up in everything, people always say it’s Sansa’s fault he got killed. But maybe YOU should rewatch. She was the ONLY reason Ned was going to be granted mercy in the first place. Her little confession turned his beheading into a sentence to the Night’s Watch… until Joffrey went rogue and had him beheaded anyway.
She was whiny and bratty but caused very little of anyone’s misery (Lady was hers, so that didn’t even really effect anyone but herself). She doesn’t deserve any of the crap that’s come her way.
THIS!!
Okay, Re-WhatSansaDeserved and Pre-UUU-MemoryLane.
Sansa did not deserve the treatment Ramsay gave her after they got married, but lets not pretend that the practice of obligatory intercourse to consumate the marriage wasn’t standard or expected from both those fictional characters in the society portrayed. Disgust stemming from social disacknowledgement of said act in the current age needs to take that info into account. So any accounts like: “They didn’t have to do this scene/rape”, are just not worth discussing. They had to breach the subject, just like they had to when Sansa and Tyrion were wedded. The act was going to happen as at least the act of obligatory intercourse was expected in that society. The fact that Sansa screams and squirms is aweful to hear. But outside of forcing Reek to watch, Ramsay is doing what his father expected him to do. Noting that though Ramsay is a psychopath, I think his intent was not to traumatize Reek or Sansa, but at least to have a witness to the act if anybody questioned if the marriage was consumated. Interviews with Iwan give credit to this idea that Ramsay specifically thinks of Sansa as a vessel to further the family name.
Just look how hard Tywin was pushing Tyrion to do exactly the same to Sansa. The difference being that Tyrion knows full well he is the legitimate heir to Casterly Rock, while Ramsay is a legitimized bastard, with a trueborn baby brother on the way, so his position is rather tenuous, so he does what his father expects him to do – while Tyrion’s position was safe, even if Tywin didn’t want to acknowledge Tyrion as the heir.
Long story short, Ramsay did not rape Sansa because he wanted to rape her. He did it out of fear that Daddy Bolton would demote him again if he didn’t do what was expected in their society. It’s in his entire stance during the scene, he’s going to several lenghts to ask whether or not Tyrion touched her, while making Reek the witness to the act to prove that his marriage to Sansa was consumated.
It really makes the whole situation quite sad for both parties involved. Sad for Sansa, she’s having intercourse she really doesn’t want or is ready for. And Ramsay is a sad creature for going to such lengths out of sheer fear of losing daddy’s recognition. Can’t say I’m proud of it, but I think I’ve found the redeeming quality in Ramsay.
Ser Oromis Locke,
Don’t find excuses for rape and rapists. It’s disgusting. You yourself said Ramsay is a psychopath (having Theon witness Ramsay rape someone he had grown up with is meant to traumatize both Theon and Sansa). He’s been traumatizing Theon since season 3 ffs. Marriages can be consumed without having to do what he did. There are examples of arranged marriages on the show, which didn’t result in what happened here.
First, what happened to Sansa at the hands of Ramsey is inexcusable and not something she or anyone else would EVER deserve.
Putting that aside, I’ve never been a Sansa fan. And yes, a lot of it goes back to the S1 incidents with Joffrey, Arya, the butcher’s boy and Lady.
But apart from that, I can’t say I’ve really ever seen Sansa go out of her way to be kind or friendly to anyone. Nor to do any type of proactive strategic planning of any kind. Maybe with the exception of that drunken knight on both counts.
Admittedly, there wasn’t a whole lot of opportunity for showing kindness or for proactive thinking/acting given the circumstances she was in. But I’ve just never got any vibe from her that she was a “hero” or “one of the good guys” or anything along those lines. Her character has been defined by what has been done to her, not by what she has done.
That’s why I’m kind of wondering if her arc might be a lot darker this season that straightforward revenge arc stuff.
Ser Oromis Locke,
up to that point at least, theon always did precisely what ramsay told him to do. so there was no need to have reek be a “witness” when ramsay could always just tell him to lie.
also it never seems to appear on GoT but foreplay does exist. ramsay probably does have to consummate his marriage with sansa per his father’s orders, but there was no need for him to be that rapey about it, and i think it’s a little misguided to not hold him accountable for that. (in contrast to the “very persuasive” sallador saan.)
i do agree that ramsay’s humanized by his desire to please roose, but his actions in UUU re: sansa and theon were pure sadism.
Episode 2 is called game of thrones for season six
Anand here we go again….
“Her weapon is her mind. Her intellect. She’s a sharp one.”
What? I’m assuming she’s giving a teaser for season 6 with that line because it sure as hell doesn’t sum up the first 5 seasons for Sansa.
What? It’s titled “Home”. Says it right on HBO’s schedule.
orange,
There’s a certain section of the fandom who want Sansa to turn into a badass warrior queen wielding a sword so I think Sophie’s addressing that. She’s not going to turn into Arya or Brienne because that’s not who she is. Sansa can only use her brain (and her name) to get what she wants. Sansa isn’t stupid, we’ve seen flashes of her being savvy in King’s Landing and the Vale but up until last season she was still hopelessly naive about people. After Ramsay, I’d say she’s finally been disabused of her tendency to think well of people. I suspect we’ll see Sansa being much more manipulative like Margaery and Cersei this season, though hopefully with more success.
You’ve gotta wait until E10. Can you make it?
Dolorous Methuselah,
In the show, Sansa has saved Dontos from Joffrey, and she has also helped the women to calm down during the Battle of Blackwater. Cersei should have done that, it was her role as a queen, but she was too absorbed in her problems that she didn’t care about others.
In the books, when Lancel showed up during the same battle, wounded, Sansa was the only person to care about him, and command the servants to bring him to a maester – even though he is a Lannister, and her enemy. She also told Margaery about Joffrey being a monster and has begged her to not marry him – even though he would be furious at her if he found out.
Sansa has plenty of kindness in her character, but her early egocentric attitude has left such an impression that it’s easy to forget that.
Still better than the time the counter on the top of the page showed “90 days”
Go Marge!!!! 😀
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“She’s a sharp one”, hm, that’s not the impression I got from her character 🙂
Chad Brick,
I want it to happen this season, not wait longer than that. That’s what I meant 😉
luki17,
Thanks for posting. I love how Sansa jumps from the side of Winterfell, yet she has to be coaxed into the water by Reek. Not really consistent on the survival front.
It must be difficult second-guessing how an audience will take to a forthcoming season. And you have no way of knowing if it will be poor or not.
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Sansa has definitely grown throughout the seasons, she is not the quickest of cats, but she does have a certain resilience that could come in handy in the long run. She survived Ramsay with her mind intact, and there are not many who can say that. Obviously the Boltons are in control, but she remains strong under horrible circumstances and even during the rape scene she doesn’t completely break down. She is not a sobbing pile of misery aftewards, but keeps her focus on surviving. I am sure these situations have hardened her in some way and while she will never be a player on the level of Varys or Baelish (lets not pretend Cersei isn’t a complete disaster at the game), she has most of the requisites to become a succesful leader through all her experiences.
Ser Oromis Locke,
If it is so redeeming then why did he go back to Sansa each day, never letting her out? Theon wasn’t there to watch then. The only way that is a redeeming quality is if he only did it once, he clearly did it multiple times without Theon there. Sorry I agree that he made Theon stay there as a witness, but he wasn’t doing it for daddy’s approval.
orange,
She endured Joffrey for 30 episodes. She endured her Aunt. She is/was enduring Ramsay. Look with all the death around her, she has played her doting roll part perfectly to keep her alive. Being smart and using your mind means kissing Joffrey’s sword, staring at your dad’s head, taking threats from King. She played the Vale’s small council like a fiddle. She knows she can control Petyr to an extent. But she can’t do it anymore. She finally escaped without a plan. her first escape was planned (without her knowing). Will she fail because of this choice, or will she succeed because of this choice. I say she has been smart based on her circumstances.
Vlad,
Just cause she gave in to her torment and took it – doesn’t mean she is stupid. Most people in Westeros won’t take it and then they die. Don’t forget she has the Vale under her thumb as well. She did that in season 4 and 5.
Ser Oromis Locke,
I disagree because of the book version, where he had Reek “warm her up” *work computer lol* I think that would have been WAY too dark for TV so they made him watch instead to show he still involved him.
She certainly forgot it.
orange,
Well, I guess Sansa dies in the fall and is replaced with a pod-person, then!
Seriously, although I appreciate that GRRM is trying to do a “stupid duckling” motif, it does stagger credulity that someone as imbecilic as Sansa could turn out to be brilliant in the end. If you do not learn how to think fairly young, then you never do learn. Now, Show!Sansa has not been quite as obtuse as Book!Sansa: but she’s not set up to be much more than competent, either.
Flayed Potatoes,
I would not bet on it happening so soon. Littlefinger’s enigma has yet to be fully unveiled.
Show!Sansa thought it would be a swell idea to waltz into Winterfell and marry Ramsay Bolton, which even AGOT Sansa would have known was a stupid idea.
Looks like Mallory Rubin has been confirmed for HBOs “After the Thrones” show.
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As far as Sansa:
a final word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqTA0wKvSrE
End of story, unless he isn’t who he portrays.