Sophie Turner and Bryan Cogman discuss THAT scene from “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones Episode 506. Consider yourself appropriately warned.
Okay everyone, take a breath…find that happy place. Are you there? No? Me either. I just cannot get last night’s Game of Thrones episode out of my head. Our little dove got married, and then proceeded to have the most horrible thing imaginable done to her.
So, take what you’re feeling and multiply it by a million, and that’s what Sophie Turner must be feeling, right? Well, it would appear as if the girl who plays Sansa Stark actually loved playing that scene. Yes…I said love. Sophie sat down with Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, before she had even filmed it, and talked about what how she felt once she got her script.
When I read that scene, I kinda loved it. I love the way Ramsay had Theon watching.
I was not expecting that reaction. Perhaps Sophie is referring to the really smart decision to show Theon’s (Alfie Allen) face, instead of Ramsay actually performing that horrifying act of despicable violence. Still, “love” is not a word that I would use to describe a rape, fictional or not. EW asked Turner if she had read the the chapter from the books on which the scene was based, and she replied that she hadn’t but she had heard that Theon joins in. Thankfully, we were spared that horror.
EW also talked to the writer-producer of last night’s episode, Bryan Cogman, to get his insight. The first and most obvious question for Cogman, was how he could do that to Sansa.
This is Game of Thrones. This isn’t a timid little girl walking into a wedding night with Joffrey. This is a hardened woman making a choice and she sees this as the way to get back her homeland. Sansa has a wedding night in the sense she never thought she would with one of the monsters of the show. It’s pretty intense and awful and the character will have to deal with it.
He’s not wrong. This is a show that has been notorious for letting the bad guys have their way with relative impunity. This isn’t some Disney fairy tale where the princess marries the prince and they live happily ever after. Cogman also confirmed that Littlefinger, in the show, has no idea about how sadistic and psychotic Ramsay actually is.
You can read Entertainment Weekly’s interview with Sophie Turner in its entirety here, and Bryan Cogman’s interview here.
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