{"id":271795,"date":"2019-04-23T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1034973"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:11:27","slug":"maisie-williams-had-the-best-response-to-people-uncomfortable-with-her-game-of-thrones-sex-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/maisie-williams-had-the-best-response-to-people-uncomfortable-with-her-game-of-thrones-sex-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Maisie Williams Had the Best Response to People Uncomfortable With Her Game of Thrones Sex Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019124\/rs_600x600-190224132933-600x600.game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-lp.22419.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.185714285714\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15.657142857143\">\n<p>It was a first for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/maisie_williams\">Maisie Williams<\/a><\/strong> in &#8220;A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,&#8221; the second episode of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>&#8216; final season. A first for the 22-year-old actor that left a few people uncomfortable. Warning, spoilers ahead!<\/p>\n<p>In the Sunday, April 21 episode, on the eve of the battle with the Night King at Winterfell, Williams&#8217; Arya Stark has sex for the first time with Gendry (<strong>Joe Dempsie<\/strong>). Arya is 18 in the show. Williams has been playing her since she was 12 years old. Some people took issue with the scene. To that, Williams said on Twitter, &#8220;if u feel uncomfortable just know that my mother and my step dad and my 2 sisters and my 4 brothers have all probably watched this too ahahakillmeehehe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"52.641463414634\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.590243902439\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">if u feel uncomfortable just know that my mother and my step dad and my 2 sisters and my 4 brothers have all probably watched this too ahahakillmeehehe<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maisie_Williams\/status\/1120755427975806976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.103585657371\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.410358565737\">\n<p>In an interview with EW, Williams said she was allowed to control the amount of skin she showed in the scene\u2014and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034537\/maisie-williams-thought-game-of-thrones-arya-stark-and-gendry-scene-was-a-prank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she originally thought the whole thing was a prank<\/a> by <strong>David Benioff<\/strong> and <strong>D.B. Weiss<\/strong>. It wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something she&#8217;s stayed away from, an emotion we&#8217;ve never really seen her engage with. David and Dan were like, \u2018It&#8217;s the end of the world, what else would you have her do?&#8217; This may be is a moment where Arya accepts death tomorrow, which she never does \u2014 \u2018Not Today,'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/2019\/04\/21\/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-gendry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Williams said<\/a>. &#8220;So, it was that moment where she says, \u2018We&#8217;re probably going to die tomorrow, I want to know what this feels like before that happens.&#8217; It&#8217;s interesting to see Arya be a bit more human, speak more normally about things people are scared of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.978260869565\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.1739130434783\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/sophie_turner\">Sophie Turner<\/a><\/strong>, Williams&#8217; TV sister and real-life best friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034652\/it-doesn-t-get-much-better-than-sophie-turner-teasing-maisie-williams-over-her-big-game-of-thrones-scene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teased the actor on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.338709677419\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.5564516129032\">\n<p>&#8220;In honor of Easter, I guess <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> wanted the storyline to have a little Easter bunny hop-hop-hopping into that p&#8212;y. And that&#8217;s the tea,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034652\/it-doesn-t-get-much-better-than-sophie-turner-teasing-maisie-williams-over-her-big-game-of-thrones-scene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turner said<\/a>, punctuating the line with a sip of wine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on HBO.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034973\/maisie-williams-had-the-best-response-to-people-uncomfortable-with-her-game-of-thrones-sex-scene?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a first for Maisie Williams in &#8220;A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,&#8221; the second episode of Game of Thrones&#8216; final season. A first for the 22-year-old actor that left a few people uncomfortable. 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