Missed the Sunday episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ because of Easter? Don’t worry, because actress Sophie Turner is here with a brief-and hilarious-summation of what you missed in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’. Warning, spoilers ahead!
In a brief video on her Instagram, Sophie Turner, who is currently on vacation with fiancé Joe Jonas, succinctly says what happened with Maisie Williams’ Arya Stark and Joe Dempsie’s Gendry in the second episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ final season. Warning, the language is a little NSFW, and Turner completes her tea spilling with a sip of red wine.
“In honour of Easter, I guess ‘Game of Thrones’ wanted the storyline to have a little Easter bunny hop-hop-hopping into that,” she said. “And that’s the tea.”
Yep, Arya Stark, who is 18 in the show, had sex for the first time. Maisie Williams, 22, said she thought she was being pranked by co-creators and showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss when she first got to the scene.
“I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’ And the showrunners were like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’ Oh no!” Williams told Entertainment Weekly.
In a behind-the-scenes video, David Benioff said they decided to have Stark explore sex for the first time because the episode was all about these characters having their last night together. “And everyone, I think, would face the end in different ways,” he said.
“Some characters want to make love for the first time because they’ve never done it before. There are other characters who are getting drunk and singing songs, and then there are characters who are just trying to find some human solace together, like Sansa and Theon. Everyone faces it in different ways, but they’re all facing it. That’s why this episode was so important to us because it’s all these characters we’ve been following for so long and now they’re all facing a common enemy,” Benioff continued. ‘Game of Thrones’ airs on Sundays, 9pm on HBO.