'GoT' star Maisie Williams thought people would hate Arya Stark for killing Night King

‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 episode 3 was huge in every aspect. It was the biggest battle that we ever saw on TV, was the longest episode on the show and it brought us to a crazy ending as Arya Stark killed Night King towards the end. This is something that no one ever expected as Arya (played by Maisie Williams) was always shown as a skilled assassin but not someone who would kill the ultimate villain.

The 22-year-old was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly after the episode went on air. On the episode she said, “It was so unbelievably exciting,” she said, adding: “But I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn’t deserve it. The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain that’s so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them.”

She continued: “It has to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, ‘Well, [the villain] couldn’t have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.’ You gotta make it cool. And then I told my boyfriend and he was like, ‘Mmm, should be Jon though really, shouldn’t it?’”

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Arya used valyrian steel dagger to kill the Night King that was coming to attack Bran Stark. In fact, it all comes to a full circle as this was the same dagger that was sent by Littlefinger to kill Bran when he lying with broken feet after the near-fatal fall from the tower in Winterfell. This dagger then landed in Bran’s hands who hands it to Arya in season 7.

In episode 3, Arya was seen charged after her brief interaction with Melisandre who tells her about the prophecy -- that she will kill brown eyes, green eyes and blue eyes --after which she was seen running from that room to Godswood where Bran was.

Maisie on that scene said, “When we did the whole bit with Melisandre, I realised the whole scene with [the Red Woman] brings it back to everything I’ve been working for over these past six seasons — four if you think about it since [Arya] got to the House of Black and White. It all comes down to this one very moment. It’s also unexpected and that’s what this show does. So then I was like, ‘’F*** you Jon, I get it.’”

Earlier, Maisie had also revealed that she thought her sex scene with Gendry in the previous episode was all but a joke by the creators and would not really make it.

Meanwhile, you can watch the trailer of episode 4 here.