Maisie Williams "Resented" Playing Arya Stark On Game Of Thrones When She "Started Becoming A Woman"

Maisie Williams "resented" playing Arya Stark on Game of Thrones.

The 24-year-old actress, who shot to fame in her early teens when she began playing the feisty tomboy on the HBO fantasy series and went on to star in all eight seasons, admitted that she struggled with her character's tomboyish appearance as she started "becoming a woman." Williams had turned 12 when she was cast on the show.

In an interview with GQ, she said: "I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming. Then I also resented my body because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated."

The New Mutants star then went on to hint she does not miss anything about working on Game of Thrones and thinks it would be "unhealthy" to miss it, but noted that she is full of "pride" for the series.

Asked what she misses about the show, she revealed: "Can I say none of it? I don’t think it’s healthy [to miss it], because I loved it. I look at it so fondly, and I look at it with such pride. But why would I want to make myself feel sad about the greatest thing that ever happened to me? I don’t want to associate that with feelings of pain."

Williams then went on to insist that a revival of the series — which was based on the books by George R.R. Martin — is "not happening" at the moment but claimed that the idea is not impossible as long as it was done in the "right context."

She said: "I’m not saying [a revival] would never happen, but I’m also not saying it in this interview so that everyone goes, ‘The spinoff! It’s coming!’ Because it’s not. It has to be the right time and the right people. It has to be right in the context of all the other spinoffs and the universe of Game of Thrones. It has to be the right time for me.”

Game of Thrones is now streaming on HBO Go. The prequel series, House of the Dragon, drops on the streaming service on Aug 21.

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