I actually just started getting a ton of Tweets saying, ‘Oh, Sophie, they’re recasting Jean Grey as a young 18-year-old,’ and people just telling me to audition, so I emailed my agent and was like, ‘What’s going on with this?’ She was like, ‘Actually, they’re interested in you, so go for an audition.’ So I put myself on tape, got a callback, flew out to LA for the screen test and then I got it! - Sophie Turner for People (April 2015)
Natalie Dormer - ‘Flare Magazine’ Cover shoot
We don’t have enough young, female antiheroes. We don’t accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
“I feel like I’ve really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I’m good enough to carry a project.”
“Me, Richard, Alfie, and Kit, we sort of rule the young ‘uns for being the exact same age and starting at the same time. We took on this adventure together. It’s quite lovely that we’re all still very much in love with each other. And then obviously, my girl Rose Leslie, who is just the coolest chick on the entire planet. I’m determined - determined! - to be a wildling extra at some point, just to find her and kind of say, ‘I’m in Iceland!’, and see what she says. We’re complete geeks, all of us. Of course, each of us thinks we’re the one that’s going to win.” — Emilia Clarke
I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.
Sophie Turner | New Comic-Con 2014 photoshoot outtakes [x]
Because of my hair, I rarely, rarely get recognized, but I was in America couple of weeks ago, and I was in a lift in a department store and the doors opened and this woman stood there, looked at me and just went, “Khaleesi!” and then the doors closed! So that was bizarre and rarely happens but when it does it’s normally on that kind of crazy scale.