Maisie Williams revealed she only did Game Of Thrones to get a new laptop..
read below another interesting things about her
1.
14 and Green...But Not for Long
At the age of only 14, Maisie Williams starred as Arya Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones.
Surrounded by death, sex, and destruction on set, the Bristol native
was beyond her years from the beginning. The actress eventually admitted
to The Guardian that she only auditioned for the show in hopes of earning enough money to buy a new laptop.
2.
Young and Hungry
Only a year later, Williams became the youngest person in history to win the Portal Award for Best Supporting Actress.
A mere 15 years old, she'd already managed to make a massive impression
on the entertainment world. After only a single season on the show,
authorities at HBO submitted Williams to be considered for a Primetime
Emmy. While she wasn't nominated, the submission itself was impressive.
3.
Popularly Unpopular
Following Game of Thrones' mass popularity, Williams
became a subject of conversation, and interest. She accumulated more
than 300,000 Twitter followers, with an additional 200,000 on Vine.
Meanwhile, she's since said
she had only one friend in high school, students assuming she was
"stuck up and above myself and too good for their friendship...but it’s
just because they never gave me a chance to be part of that at all."
4.
'It's a Twisted World'
Eventually, Williams began fielding requests for interviews,
expected to come up with adult observations to accompany the very adult
content she was creating. In 2014, she said GoT
granted her precocious insight on the truths of society: "...in reading
the script and growing up on this show and reading articles about Game of Thrones and talking to fans and stuff, I’ve now realized why good guys die. It’s a twisted world."
5.
Cool From the Inside Out
As Williams continued acting on Game of Thrones, she grew
older, progressively viewed less as a young girl, and more as a young
woman. Like many actresses, her appearance became a topic of
conversation. Subject to constant criticism, her confidence became less
tied to her looks and more to her talent: "I know my looks are kind of
weird – compared to other actors my age – but they work for me," she told The Guardian.
"I might not be a classically beautiful leading lady, but that means
I’ll play a different sort of leading lady. Does it get to me?
Sometimes, but honestly I’m very confident about the future."
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6.
Wicked Worldview
In late 2014, Harry Potter actress and Brown graduate Emma Watson
delivered a riveting U.N. speech on feminism and the gender gap. While
most were touched and inspired, Williams was unimpressed. In her eyes,
Watson's words had fallen flat: "A lot of what Emma Watson spoke about, I
just think, 'That doesn't bother me,'" she told The Guardian
at the time. "I know things aren't perfect for women in the UK and in
America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far
worse."
7.
Pet Projects
Due in part to the digital and in-person harassment Williams had
weathered since becoming famous, the then 17-year-old took on a movie
role as Casey in Cyberbully, a film about a teen girl blackmailed by a computer hacker. In a uniquely powerful position to speak on online bullying, she said she thought malicious online comments were the worst kind of hate: "Kids are killing themselves. It’s very serious."
8.
Personable Personality
In the summer of 2015, Williams started her own YouTube channel.
Describing it as hosting "random moments of madness with Maisie
Williams and sometimes Barney (my tortoise) idk we'll see," the
18-year-old has used the platform to share a side of her rarely seen. To
date, she has posted a Q&A, a video on her New Year's resolutions,
and clips of her skydiving.
9.
Feminist, or Sexist? There Is No in Between
Just days before her 19th birthday, an interview with EW
revealed Williams' thoughts on Feminism. They were, in a word,
enlightening: "I got asked in one of my first interviews, 'Is Arya a
feminist?' I didn’t even know what a feminist was. And then someone
explained it to me. And I remember thinking, 'Isn’t that just like
everyone?' And then I realized everyone is not a feminist,
unfortunately. But I also feel like we should stop calling feminists
'feminists' and just start calling people who aren’t feminist 'sexist' –
and then everyone else is just a human. You are either a normal person
or a sexist."
10.
Arya Listening?
Five years since Game of Thrones' Season 1 premiere, it's difficult to see how Williams hasn't
changed. The actress has a lifetime of changes ahead of her, to be
sure, but the transformation from laptop-driven child to formidable
personality she's undergone in just five short years is a wonder in
itself.
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