STACK #182 Dec 2019

TV

FEATURE

“What’s interesting is that the ending you are given is the ending you do for your character and you have to justify your end and it has to be truthful. I think any other ideas that I had about how I wanted it to end I couldn’t be hung up on that. I couldn’t be fighting that and thinking in an opposing way, because it would ruin what was written and I wouldn’t do that justice. So I had to embrace the ending. And there are going to be scenes that maybe people want to change or tweak – it’s nothing major – but it can have huge impact on the way that you play the story. “So reading it, accepting it and embracing it was definitely a process that we all had to go through, because you have to end your character, you have to wrap this up and be satisfied with it because if you're not, no one else is going to be.”

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photography – there was a splinter unit doing some other things but I wrapped with most of the crew. And I’d seen others wrap, I’d been there for all the tears and the speeches and I

sort of held it all off really. I held it all off until I’d really wrapped. I had a lot of really big stuff to shoot in my final few days – really difficult stuff to do – and I couldn’t let that emotion get in the way of it, I couldn’t let that overrun me playing Arya. “And they called wrap and I did a little speech and then I went back to my trailer, took off Arya’s clothes for one final time, and had a shower and scraped the mud and

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blood out of my hair for one final time. It was really emotional.” While the eighth and final season certainly polarised fans of the series, Williams says she was very happy

with the way it ended – particularly for Arya.