Maisie Williams admits family watched Arya’s Game Of Thrones sex scene

Game Of Thrones fans were left a little uncomfortable on Sunday when the show aired Arya Stark deciding to have sex with Gendry.

Mostly because we’d all watched actress Maisie Williams grow up on screen over the past ten years and it felt like watching your little sister.

But spare a thought for Maisie herself, who has taken to Twitter to joke that ‘if u feel uncomfortable just know that my mother and my step dad and my 2 sisters and my 4 brothers have all probably watched this too’.

Fair point.

Then, just to make it even clearer she added: ‘ahahakillmeehehe’.

In the second episode of the eighth and final season, Arya stripped off in front of Gendry and instructed him to ‘take his own bloody trousers off’ before hopping into bed.

Reunited after years apart, it turns out their flirty banter didn’t take long to move into something a bit more physical, and it turns out nothing works as foreplay better than making weapons together.

‘We’re probably going to die soon. I want to know what it’s like before that happens,’ she told the blacksmith.

Despite the divisive nature of the scene, David Benioff, who wrote the show, later explained in an episode recap that it would make sense that Arya could make the most of what could potentially be the last day before she dies.

‘For us, what was interesting about this episode was that this is our last night together, and I think everyone would face the end in different ways,’ he explained.

‘Some characters want to make love for the first time because they’ve never done it before, and other characters who are getting drunk and singing songs.’

He added: ‘Everyone faces [death] in different ways, but they’re all facing it and that’s why this episode was so important to us because, it’s all these characters that we’ve been following for so long and now they’re facing a common enemy.’

Game Of Thrones continues Sundays on HBO and Sky Atlantic. And is available to watch on NOW TV.

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