In October 2019, Maisie Williams spent a day with Vogue and spoke about her experience as Arya Stark on HBO’s Game of Thrones. While she obviously had positive things to say, Williams also got candid about one of the toughest things that came with embodying the headstrong, fearless Stark character.
Williams spoke about the challenges of playing up Arya’s masculine side and how it impacted her own relationship with her body, saying, “A couple of seasons in the middle, maybe around season two or three, my body started to mature and I started to become a woman but Arya was still very much, like, trying to be disguised as a boy.”
“I had really short hair and they’d constantly cover me in dirt and shade my nose so it looked really broad and I looked really manly,” she added. “They’d also put this strap across my chest to flatten any growth that had started and, I don’t know, that just felt horrible for six months of the year, and I felt kind of a bit ashamed for a while.”
Post-Game of Thrones, Williams is enjoying getting to experiment with her feminine side when it comes to fashion. The actress told the publication: “With this new phase of my style, it is nice to look more feminine and have a real waistline and just like, you know, embrace the body that I have.”
