Sophie Turner Reflects On Her 'Game of Thrones' Character's Journey, Talks Spinoffs | THR News - video Dailymotion

"She'll stay with me for the rest of my life," says the actress of wrapping up her tenure as Sansa  Stark on the HBO series.

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00:00For Sophie Turner, who began playing Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones at the tender age of 14,

00:04the HBO hit series may be over, but the lessons she learned from her iconic character

00:08will remain eternal. Now, if you're the lone Thrones fan who has yet to finish the epic

00:13fantasy series, first of all, you call yourself a fan? Second of all, cover your ears

00:17because there are a few spoilers ahead. In an interview with THR's Josh Wiggler,

00:20Turner spoke about her emotional last day of filming and why she's ready to say goodbye

00:24to Westeros forever. Of the show's ending, which saw Jon Snow kill Daenerys and Bran

00:29appointed to the Iron Throne, Turner confesses that she loved that the story began

00:32and concluded with the Starks. Says the actress,

00:35Speaking of shooting that final scene, which sees Sansa become Queen of the North,

00:54Turner reveals that she actually felt a lack of sentimentality at the time due to it being

00:58one of the first scenes that was filmed.

00:59I was thinking, we've still got 10 months more to shoot, she laughs. But it felt really

01:04empowering and it was a great way to start off the season knowing that Sansa was going to be

01:08Queen in the North and then owning that. It helped with shooting all the scenes with Dany

01:12where she's very much protecting her home. Winterfell felt more like it was mine than ever,

01:17so I became even more defensive in those scenes with Dany.

01:20And on the subject of those scenes with Daenerys, they marked the first time that Turner and

01:24Amelia Clarke actually worked together on the show despite having known one another for years,

01:28something Turner embraced with excitement.

01:30I had been desperate to work with Amelia for a while, she says. It was awesome, these two

01:35incredibly powerful women who have gone through so much in their lives and come out the other

01:39side stronger. Having them face off against each other was just amazing because these women are

01:44stubborn as hell and they won't back down. So it was always going to be very, very interesting to see how

01:49they interacted with one another. And when her last day on set finally did arrive,

01:54Turner explains that it was a mixed bag of emotions.

02:11That being said, Turner is adamant that, now it's over, she would not return to the character

02:15she inhabited for almost a decade. It's time for me to say goodbye, Turner explains.

02:19She's ended up in a place that I'm so happy with. It's been 10 years of watching this character

02:23grow and she's at her peak right now. I'm sure if she carried on and did a spin-off show, it would

02:28just be downhill from there. She'd have to go through some other terrible traumas or something

02:32and I don't want to do that.

02:34Regardless, Turner admits there are definitely elements of her feisty character that she will

02:38take with her moving forward.

02:40To read Josh Wiggler's full interview with Sophie Turner, head to THR.com.

03:00For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.