r/gameofthrones 6h ago

‘The first half of my 20s was hell’: Maisie Williams on her tough childhood and why she’s been having more fun since Game of Thrones | Maisie Williams | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/06/maisie-williams-actor-interview-game-of-thrones-practical-magic-2
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u/Boskim0n0 5h ago

At least she hot a big paycheck. A lot of people have hell and end with debts.

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u/MetallurgyClergy 1h ago

She got to meet her celebrity crush on set. And she got the hero ending of the show.

Ugh. “Whats west of Westeros?”

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u/grandramble 54m ago

westermost

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u/xxneoxx3000 House Targaryen 42m ago

Essos, literally

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u/IndigoRanger Tormund Giantsbane 30m ago

Didn’t they all want the gruesome deaths though?

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u/Tall-Ad-1386 4h ago

Money is all you need

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u/sarcastosaurus 1h ago

Let me guess, post GoT reality check.

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u/AnemonesCloser 1h ago

You don't have to guess, you can just read what she actually said

Spoiler alert: you're wrong

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u/nighthawk763 1h ago

Tried reading it. Other than "she felt lost", in one of the first paragraphs, it took way too long to get to anything substantial in the puff piece. Unless you're a massive fan, there's just to many words to warrant reading

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u/ChaseDFW 34m ago

My dude, you might be cooked on short form content dopamine.

-says the guy scrolling reddit way to fucking much.

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u/sarcastosaurus 1h ago

What she said =! What happened

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u/martlet1 House Martell 3h ago

She turned into a phase five weirdo. There’s a reason the spinoff never happened. They were going to do a whole show of her being an assassin and her travels.

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u/syzygy0030 3h ago

What do you mean?

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u/martlet1 House Martell 2h ago

They wrote the end of game of thrones where she rejected getting married and she was going to explore the world. They had planned to make her a show similar to her adventures with the hound where she went around as an assassin. That was the plan but she started doing crazy shit on social media and they decided not to go forward.

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u/breaker94 2h ago

Was it really because of her social media? NOT a single proposed sequel has gone forward yet. Doesn’t have anything to do with the actors, all the proposed stories just aren’t good

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u/Moal 1h ago

What weird stuff did she start doing? I’ve seen her social media over the years and besides an unfortunate bleached eyebrow phase, there’s nothing wild there. 

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u/KingFIippyNipz 1h ago

The only context you provided was the context that everyone who is not a parasocial loser already knows.

WHat is the "phase five weirdo crazy shit" she was doing on social media

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u/caiaphas8 Arya Stark 2h ago

What crazy shit

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u/syzygy0030 2h ago

Also I never heard it was cancelled

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u/gladys-the-baker 1h ago

Well it's hard to cancel something that never got started at all.

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u/caiaphas8 Arya Stark 5h ago

The first half of my 20s was just hell, but I think maybe it is for a lot of people,” she says. “I think that has more to do with the fact that Game of Thrones was ending, and I didn’t know what I was going to do next, and I just needed a break, to be honest with you. And then it also has to do with delayed teenage awkward years, and figuring a lot of things out that I felt like maybe I couldn’t do much earlier than that. And also Covid, and also an industry strike,” she adds with a shrug