Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner is about 99.9% sure she’s leaving Sansa Stark in 2019.
The 23-year-old is ‘doubtful’ she’ll ever reprise the role that made her famous 10 years ago, even if the character was to be given her own spin-off show.
Sophie believes Sansa has peaked and doesn’t want her alter ego to go through any more ‘terrible traumas’.
‘It’s time for me to say goodbye,’ Sophie told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘She’s ended up in a place that I’m so happy with. I don’t know.
‘It would be different if someone actually came and said, “We want to do a Sansa spinoff show,” but I’m pretty sure I’d say no.
‘It’s been 10 years of watching this character grow, and she’s at her peak right now. I’m sure if she carried on and did a spinoff show, it would just be downhill from there. She’d have to go through some other terrible traumas or something, and I don’t want to do that.’
Good news for Sophie’s gob-smackingly similar Sansa stunt double, then.
**Season 8 spoilers ahead**
Those who have already watched until the end, will have witnessed Sansa’s transformation from waif-like wannabe princess of the Stark clan into Queen of the North.
Sophie was satisfied with the Episode 6 ending, recently saying: ‘It’s a great ending, from my perspective, it’s very satisfying but I think a lot of people will be upset too.’
She lashed out at the thousands of viewers who campaigned to get a Season 8 do-over when they weren’t quite as impressed by the ending.
‘So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it’s not what they want to see is just disrespectful,’ she said.
After GoT, Sophie had perhaps the biggest follow-up project of all of her co-stars, a titular role in the latest X-Men film.
But X-Men: Dark Phoenix suffered a disastrous opening at the box office this weekend, grossing just $14 million (£11 million) despite costing an eye-watering $200 million (£157 million) to make.
The Simon Kinberg-directed blockbuster stars Sophie in the lead as Jean Grey, alongside James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and Jennifer Lawrence as Raven aka Mystique.
But it seems the star-studded cast wasn’t enough to save Dark Phoenix as it has suffered the worst opening in the history of X-Men movies.
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