Sophie Turner credits Dark Sansa memes for landing Jean Grey
Who says the Game of Thrones internet fanbase isn’t all-powerful?
Sophie Turner, who was confirmed cast as the young Jean Grey in FOX’s latest X-Men installment, told IGN she feels she has the internet, and Sansa’s turn in Season 4, are to thank for this casting.
“I think maybe one of the reasons that they chose me for [Jean] is because they saw the dark side of Sansa,” she said. “Maybe they’re thinking, ‘Oh, Phoenix, Jean Grey.’ I definitely see a lot of parallels in there.”
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Darth Sansa, First of Her Name
“[Jean] struggles with her power… and not being accepted in the human world. I think in terms of [Game of Thrones], that’s kind of the way Sansa felt in that she really wanted to be a normal princess/queen and live a normal life — and she doesn’t, because of all this havoc happens. I think Jean, in a way, feels that.”
Sophie herself, who is barely 18, seems to have a pretty good insight into the inner lives of Sansa and Jean Grey.
“I think Famke played Jean incredibly well, but also, I’m playing a younger version of her,” Turner explained. “I want to emulate Famke in a sense, because she has to seem like the Jean in the first two movies, but I’m also going to put my own twist on her. I think I’m also going to take inspiration from the comics. I don’t know, we’ll see.”
Personally, the first thing I noticed of our first glimpse of Sansa in Season 5 isn’t that she seems to have gone dark–though she has given up the muted purples and blues she wore in Kings Landing for the black and grey tones that the rest of the Stark clan has been sporting since Season 1. It’s interesting how much they’ve made her look like Catelyn Stark.
That high collar and the hair is a look we saw Catelyn wearing nearly her entire time on the road with Robb.
But I trust that before too long there will be another scene in which Darth Sansa can draw her lightsaber and invite poor little Robyn to the Dark Side.
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