Sophie Turner would be up for ‘Game Of Thrones’ return: “Show me the money”
Sophie Turner has said that she wouldn’t rule out getting involved in a Game Of Thrones sequel.
Turner, who played Sansa Stark throughout the HBO show’s eight-season run, was asked about the possibility while promoting her new TV series, the Amazon Prime Video drama Steal.
Following franchise creator George R.R. Martin’s recent comments that HBO has a few Game Of Thrones projects in development, including sequels, The Direct asked her how interested she’d be in reprising her role.
“Show me the money,” she said, laughing, before adding, “I don’t know, I think it would be hard but also amazing to come back to it.”
Turner went on to say that, while “no one else was really happy with their ending”, she was content, explaining: “I feel like I got a good one, and so I don’t know if I could revisit it.”
She added, “Maybe it would be an utter joy, or maybe it would be trying to cling on to something that was magic back in the day that can’t be recreated. I would have to see a script.”
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Turner was cast as Stark, a young noblewoman, in 2009, and filming began in 2010, when she was 14. She’s previously said that she was pressured to lose weight while on the show, and that she suffered from mental health problems while filming as a teenager. “I have experienced mental illness firsthand and I’ve seen what it can do to the people around [the sufferers] as well,” she told Marie Claire Australia in 2019.
Filming of the eighth and final season wrapped up in 2018, with the series finale leaving her character as Queen of the North. Since then, Turner has starred in TV series including Survive and Joan, as well as movies including the thriller Trust and the black comedy Do Revenge.
She’s also set to portray Lara Croft in Amazon Prime Video’s live-action Tomb Raider series, and feature alongside her former Game Of Thrones co-star Kit Harington in the Gothic horror movie The Dreadful. In August, she joked that having to kiss Harington – who played Stark’s half-brother, Jon Snow, in the series – for the role was “vile”.
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Harington, for his part, said last month that he has no plans to return to Game Of Thrones. When discussing his role in Audible’s Harry Potter audiobook series, the possibility of a new Game Of Thrones audiobook was mooted – he told Variety: “No, god no. I don’t wanna go anywhere near it. I spent 10 years doing that.”
As for the Game Of Thrones franchise, two prequels – House Of The Dragon and A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms – have aired on HBO since the original show ended.
The third season of House Of The Dragon is set to air later this year, with the fourth season confirmed to be the last one. In November, A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms was renewed for a second season, which is expected to air in 2027, per Deadline.