Game of Thrones Season 4 Spoilers: Maisie Williams talks Arya Stark's dark season

By all indications, Season 4 will be a bloody and action-packed year for Game of Thrones, even by the show's own gruesome standards. One character in particular who will stroll a dark path is Arya Stark, played by the young Maisie Williams.

In an interview with EW.com at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, the actress said she hopes Arya finally catches a break this year.

"I feel like Arya deserves something good to happen," Williams said. "She's the most unfortunate character, nothing is going her way. She has powerful scenes, but not without a lot of mess-ups. It's frustrating for me to never have an accomplishing scene and I think frustrating for the audience as well. But I think that's coming soon."

She might soon get that scene with her traveling companion, The Hound (Rory McCann). She's wanted to kill him in the past, but the relationship will change this season.

"There is a dark turn in her that's kind of frightening," Williams said. "She's learning a lot from The Hound and she's being heavily influenced by that. She's so young, she's like a sponge and getting knowledge. She's heavily influenced by people around her. Being next to The Hound she's learning his brutal ways."

Williams went on to say that the two would develop more of a mutually beneficial relationship this season.

"They're not angry with each other anymore. They're not friends or anything like that. They're trying to get along a little better," she said. "She's still awful to him and pulls on his strings and he's very brutal and physical with her. They're almost helping each other now and trying to teach each other rather than just being annoying."

Williams also noted that her biggest growth spurt on the show was between Seasons 1 and 2, so she got a new costume then. But her costume has remained mostly unchanged since then.

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