This time last year, Sophie Turner was wrapping up filming on Joan, a six-part miniseries which she filmed in the UK, and filing for divorce from Joe Jonas. Throughout September 2023, their divorce war raged and it got unbelievably ugly. Then they agreed to mediation in New York, and ever since, they’ve seemingly kept everything private. They share custody of their two daughters, Sophie is back to living full time in the UK, and she’s dating Peregrine Pearson, heir to the 4th Viscount Cowdray. Now she’s promoting Joan, that miniseries which seemingly marked the end of her marriage. Sophie was filming it in the UK in the summer of 2023, and Joe hated that she was working and he changed his mind about moving to the UK that summer, a summer where he kept their daughters in the US. Sophie talked about some of this (not a lot) with the Times recently:

Playing a jewel thief: “Joan changed me quite a lot. From utter desperation comes so much will and ambition. The series came around at a time in my life where I had to be ambitious and I had to have such strong will and fight against the forces. She gave me a lot of strength.” Then, grinning, she adds: “She also taught me how to do a good ring swap in a handbag.”

The main motivation for Joan Hannington is fight to get her young daughter back home. “If I hadn’t been a mother, I don’t know if I would have been able to bring the same energy that I did into it,” Turner says, adding that she hopes single mothers watch the series. “It’s such a struggle being a single mother. Joan doesn’t go about it in the best way … but it is amazing to see her really fighting for her daughter. It’s also really important for kids to see just how hard parents work for them.”

Being accused of being a wayward mother because she went to a wrap party at a bar: “There’s so much shame that comes with motherhood. You go to work, you’re shamed. If you don’t go to work, you’re shamed.”

She asked a crew member to stay with her: “She ended up staying with me at mine, because I didn’t want to be alone. The crew really held me through it, and I didn’t ever come home alone at the end of the day.”

Her post-GoT career: “Game of Thrones was such a big show that I felt like nothing I did next was going to be as good. I went away for a little bit, so now I feel like I don’t have that pressure on me of everyone going, ‘What is she going to do next?’”

Would she allow her daughters into acting while still young? “I’d say to any parent if your child wants to get into the industry, wait until their frontal lobe has formed, which is 25. I would highly discourage them from getting into it before they can fully process what that means.”

Her new life in the UK: She has a new man, a new freedom in picking roles and a new life, having returned to England. “I’m with my friends; I’m with my family; I’m eating good chocolate. I am thrilled.”

[From The Times]

“I’d say to any parent if your child wants to get into the industry, wait until their frontal lobe has formed, which is 25.” I’d say the same about marriage too, and in fact, many people encouraged her to not marry so young – she was 23 years old when she married Joe and they had already been together for a few years. Now that she’s older, I hope she sees that Joe wanted her to be a young tradwife and he basically freaked out when she started working more consistently and especially when she wanted to move to the UK. She’s right about the damned if you do, damned if you don’t mom-shaming culture too.

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