It was 10 years of my life."
Even Arya Stark has qualms about the contentious final season ofGame of Thrones.
“But it started really strong,” the actress maintained, later praising the success of the series.
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in ‘Game of Thrones’.Helen Sloan/HBO
“It kinda popped off.
I could never see it from the outside.
So I could never say that and actually understand it.
Maisie Williams.Antony Jones/Getty
For the first time, it feels good to be proud of it.
It was 10 years of my life.”
The patriarch wasruthlessly beheaded in season 1.
“For the first time, I could really feel the story,” she said.
“We were all enjoying the hell out of it,” he said.
“People will say, ‘Do you know what’s going to happen?’
to me and I’d be like, ‘I don’t know.’
But there were, like, scripts and stuff laying around.
I never did [look] but I could have.”
I thought that’s what Arya’s drive has been."
As she thought more about Arya’s arc, however, Williams learned to embrace the direction.
“The Hound says, ‘You want to be like me?
You want to live your life like me?’
In my head, the answer was: ‘Yeah,'” she said.
“It was a shock for me because that wasn’t how I envisioned her arc going this year.
She concluded, “It’s not aGame of Thronesending for Arya, it’s a happy ending.
It gave me a place to take Arya that I never thought I’d go with her again.”
