‘Game Of Thrones’ has become an absolute pop culture phenomenon and has made viewers experience a real rollercoaster of emotions for eight years, from 2011 to 2019. The popular fantasy format is still a topic of discussion and reference among many series enthusiasts.
Since the first episode too Maisie Williams was part of “Game Of Thrones”. At the age of 12, she embodied Arya Stark, one of the most exciting and complex characters in the HBO series. In conversation with the (through ), the now 26-year-old has now spoken about what it felt like for her to be a child star and the challenges that came with acting.
Maisie Williams didn’t know who she was
“I was lost for so long and knew I was, and when I couldn’t pin down what I thought my identity was, I felt very uncomfortable. It’s hard to put myself back there and talk about how hard it was.
It was particularly complicated for Maisie Williams to find out who she really was, because at the beginning of her adolescence (that is, in the crucial phase of great self-discovery) she was already busy taking on other roles: “Playing characters was so exciting, but I did it at a very formative time in my life.”the actors told the .
Maisie Williams, who now says she feels much better about herself, was not only seen in 59 episodes of ‘Game Of Thrones’ between 2011 and 2019 (the series has a total of 73), but also in the action film ‘Thriller’. ‘ Heatstroke – A Hellish Trip”, several episodes of “Doctor Who”, “Rendezvous with Life”, “iBoy” and “Mary Shelley”. Williams currently stars as Catherine Dior in the AppleTV+ series “The new lookto see.