It always sort of amazes me that Sophie Turner was cast in Game of Thrones when she was just 13 years old, and she’s grown up to be such a tall, regal-looking young woman. I also think it’s amazing that she looks so much like Michelle Fairley, who played her mother Catelyn Stark on GoT. I’m just saying, Sophie was a great casting choice. And while I love the vibe of Sophie’s editorial for The Edit, I don’t get why they did her hair this way? The vibe could have been faux-Victorian lady-of-the-manor, but then they just screwed up her hair so badly. Anyway, Sophie is promoting GoT as well as X-Men: Apocalypse, where she plays a young Jean Gray. You can read the full interview here at The Edit. Some highlights:

Her mom put her in a drama class when she was little: “She just wanted a place to put us kids so she could go and hang out with her friends and basically stay sane, so my brothers [James, 28 and Will, 26] went to rugby and Mum sent me to drama class….I wouldn’t say hello or goodbye to anyone… I was so nervous that I would shake and nearly pee myself before I went on stage. The reason I kept on was that it was an excuse to go somewhere on a Saturday and swear and kiss boys. You get so much freedom from acting – no boundaries, no judgement.”

Auditioning for GoT at the age of 13: “I’d go into my mum’s room every night crying, saying, ‘If I don’t get this I’m not going back to school! This is everything to me!’ But then I got it, and it was the best day of my life – it still is.”

She cares about Sansa: “I really care about this character; she’s like my best friend, my other half. I worry for [Sansa] because she’s a real person to me. I’m constantly saying to David and Dan [Benioff and Weiss], ‘What’s going to happen to her? You have to tell me!’ I almost think about her more than I do myself. It’s like a split personality; sometimes I slip into her by mistake.”

She’s been exposed to everything through the show: “It was brutal. I remember being at the read-through and being like, ‘Oh my God!’ But once I had watched the first season, I was numb to it all.”

The new season: “This season blows my mind! A lot happens to Sansa and by the end of it she’s totally different. She has to take command because Theon [Greyjoy, played by Alfie Allen, who assisted Sansa in her escape from Winterfell at the end of season five] is a shell of the man he was, so this is her realizing that she has to take things into her own hands. Until now, it’s just been about her survival and seeing her family again, but last season broke her, so I think she is gunning for revenge now, too.”

Getting to work with Jennifer Lawrence on X-Men: “[Jennifer] was like, ‘I’m so excited to work with you, I love Game of Thrones!’ She was amazing, a lot of fun. But because she was shooting other movies she was going back and forth on weekends, so while the rest of us were going out and partying, she had to work. We all felt bad for her, she was exhausted.”

She asked Famke Janssen for her blessing to play Jean Gray: “I would hate someone else to play Sansa, so I can’t imagine how Famke feels. I emailed her straight away to say, ‘Are we cool?’ I thought she did an incredible job so I said, ‘I hope I can do justice to your character.’ She sent me such a lovely reply – ‘I’m handing that honor over to you’ – that I cried.”

Getting a trainer for X-Men: “Before I got [the trainer], I went through a bit of a dark place, I was not happy with myself. I think for me, and for every young girl out there, body image is such a big thing, especially if you are in the public eye. People comment on [your appearance] and… Eugh. So when I was forced to get into shape and eat healthily, my skin cleared up and I felt energetic all the time. It totally changed me.”

[From The Edit]

This just reminded me of how the GoT producers chose really well when they were casting the kids and the younger adults. Between Sophie, Maisie Williams and the kid who plays Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright), they got smart kids who have been able to transition to young-adulthood with a great deal of grace. Sophie also told The Edit that she can’t say if Sansa is going to make it through this season (but she has to, right?), and that Jon Snow is super-dead. Like, really dead dead dead. Also, Famke Janssen sounds like a nice person.

Photos courtesy of The Edit.