Sansa Stark Actress Sophie Turner Wants 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Writers to Kill Her Off
With the Game of Thrones Season 6 just around the corner, the remaining original actors from Westeros are beginning their press rounds, and that includes Sophie Turner, who plays long-suffering character Sansa Stark. In a recent interview, the British actress revealed she wants her character to follow the better part of the Starks -- and die.
Turner, who this year will make her first turn as a superhero in Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse, recently talked to The Wall Street Journal about the HBO series and the little she could reveal about the sixth season, which will premiere next month. Tight-lipped as the GoT cast usually is, she did reveal one thing she wanted to see in the show: her character dying.
"I don't want to survive," Turner said talking to WSJ Café. "If you're on 'Game of Thrones' and you don't have a cool death scene, then what's the point?"
According to The Mirror, Turner said things were "coming together" in this new season, after years of the characters spreading all over the place. It seems like we could be seeing new alliances forming in Westeros and beyond this season, as everyone works towards achieving the same goal: the Iron Throne.
Hopefully, this will also mean the (very few) remaining Starks will see each other once again. If Kit Harington's Jon Snow is really dead, the only remaining members of the iconic Winterfell family are Sansa, Arya (Maisie Williams), Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) and Rickon (Art Parkinson).
Turner's character Sansa is also one of the characters who's suffered the most in Game of Thrones, which is saying a lot. Besides having to see most of her family being killed in the most gruesome ways, she was also engaged to one of the most sadistic characters in the run of the series, King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson).
Last season, Sansa married the other majorly sadistic character of the show, Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon), who raped her on her wedding night in a scene that sparked a world of controversy. By the end of Season 5, she fled Ramsay's side and will hopefully find some peace at last.
The Game of Thrones Season 6 will premiere on HBO next April 24.