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When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. And when you star on “Game of Thrones,” you give HBO total control over your hair.
Kit Harington has said repeatedly over the years that he was contractually obligated to maintain his dark, chin-length curls as long as he played Jon Snow. He also expressed regret that he didn’t follow the lead of the women on the show and rely on wigs so he could wear his hair any way he pleased when the show wasn’t in production. As soon as the cameras stopped rolling and he got the all-clear, he lopped off several inches.
And now Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark, is dishing on the toll the show took on her hair.
Turner, 22, told InStyle that around Season 5, producers asked her to stop washing her hair, what with Sansa being on the run from Cersei and later Ramsay Bolton and not having the time or resources to properly cleanse or condition her long red hair.
“It was really disgusting,” she recalled. “Now I wear I a wig so I can wash my hair whenever I want, which is nice. But yes, for a couple of years I was living with pretty greasy hair.”
Even worse, she said it was “really itchy,” adding, “we would have the snow machines going so we would have little snow paper particles that would get stuck in the grease. It was disgusting.”
She also did serious damage to her hair, frying it as she went back and forth from her natural blonde to Sansa’s shade of auburn. In 2017, after becoming a brand ambassador for haircare line Wella, she went icy blond and started wearing wigs when the show was in production.
But now that Turner is free to make her own decisions regarding her hair color and has a team to help her take care of it, she says she may not stay blond.
“(Co-star) Maisie (Williams) just got pink hair and it looks so good on her,” she told InStyle. “It’s kind of inspiring me to maybe change my hair up a bit. I think that maybe not this year, but next year I’m so down to even go brunette or do something fun like pink, blue, or green.”
She also dished on which cast member fusses over their hair the most.
“Kit Harington,” she shared. He probably takes the most care of his hair out of like everyone on the show I know. … Before red carpets, you would always see him scrunching the ends of his curls to make sure they’re perfect. We all (make fun of) him for that.”
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