One person who was hopingArya Starkcould have punchedCersei Lannister‘s life clock was Arya, herself –Game of Thronesactress,Maisie Williams.
In an interview this week withEntertainment Weekly, the 22-year-old actress revealed that she, like many fans of the recently wrapped HBO saga, wishesGame of Throneswould’ve ended a little differently for her character.
“I just wanted to be on set withLena [Headey]again, she’s good fun,” Williams said of the actress who played Cersei, the conniving queen whom Arya has had it out for since season 1 of the series.
“And I wanted Arya to kill Cersei even if it means [Arya] dies too,” she added. “Even up tothe point when Cersei’s with JaimeI thought [while reading the script], ‘He’s going to whip off his face [and reveal its Arya]’ and they’re both going to die. I thought that’s what Arya’s drive has been.”
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“Nothing else matters, only us,” Jaime said to Cersei as the walls collapsed on top of them, courtesy ofDaenerys Targaryenletting her dragon, Drogon, loose on the entire city, killing countless innocent citizens.
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The episode ends with Arya, bloodied, dusty with ash from the city burning around her, coming upon a white horse, and riding away from the death and debris surrounding her.
Fans were then divided after the airing of thecontroversial series finale, where the Starks may have gotten the long end of the stick after eight seasons of family tragedy.Bran Starkbecame king,Sansa Starkbecame ruler of the North and Arya did perhaps what she does best: went off on her own (again).
Williams toldEWthat despite her “shock” and mixed feelings initially, she eventually realized that the ending to Arya’s story gave her “other things I could play, bringing Arya back to being a 16-year-old again.”
“It’s notaGame of Thronesending forArya, it’s a happy ending,” she added. “It gave me a place to take Arya that I never thought I’d go with her again.”
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But even if Williams did want to revisit her famous character’s story end, sadly there areno plans as of now to create a spin-off serieson the middle Stark child’s journey, or anyone else’s.
“Part of it is, I do want this show — thisGame of Thrones, [showrunners]Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff]‘s show — to be its own thing,” HBO programming president Casey Bloys explained in an interview withThe Hollywood Reporterpublished this week. “I don’t want to take characters from this world that they did beautifully and put them off into another world with someone else creating it. I want to let it be the artistic piece they’ve got.”
Bloys further explained thatGoTauthor,George R.R. Martin,created such a “massive” world that there are plenty of other ways to explore it besides through the characters viewers already know and love.
But while a sequel is off the table, the network willstart shooting a prequel pilotin June, the first of three prequels in development.
source: people.com
