Maisie Williams – little Arya Stark on Game of Thrones – has been doing interviews this week as part of the Always #LikeAGirl campaign. The campaign was started months ago, and the objective is to reclaim the “like a girl” phrase from a negative to a positive. Like, saying someone does something “like a girl” is often meant in a negative way. I’m over-explaining this, I know. Nevermind. In any case, Maisie has been doing interviews and of course she’s been asked about GoT and Jon Snow and tons of other stuff. Some highlights from her assorted comments (some SPOILERS for the past season of GoT):

On Jon Snow’s “death”: “I think people are trying to be very positive about this, like, ‘It’s fine. He’s coming back. He’s totally coming back, right? He’s going to come back?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t think so. I’m very sorry!’ I don’t know, maybe he wanted to keep the hair in the end. We saw him get stabbed like five times in the chest. I think he’s gone. I mean, I could be wrong, but I really don’t think so. And people are like, ‘He’s going to come back as White Walker!’ I’m like, ‘Really, we’d bring back Jon Snow as a White Walker?!’ OK, you can believe what you’d like. If it makes you feel better, then, yes there’s hope but . . . there’s no hope.”

Whether Melisandre will resurrect Jon: “I feel like she’s far too selfish for all of that.”

Who should claim the Iron Throne: “It’s such a wonderful thought, how this is all going to end. It’s something that we all think about so much, I’m so glad I don’t have to make the decision because I would never be able to make it as epic as it’s supposed to be. I’d love to see someone like Sansa on the Iron Throne. I feel like she would be a great leader. Not that she’s really in the battles of the Iron Throne at the moment at all, but she’s a really, really great character and one that would do it fantastically.

She’s unstoppable, like a girl: “The hardest thing was to do everything left handed. My character in the book is written left handed and I learned all of my sword training left handed. It’s been difficult, but I think I was very eager and determined. So many people said, “You don’t have to do this,” but it’s something I wanted to do. I didn’t let anyone hold me back. I’m unstoppable, like a girl.”

Stop calling her cute: “The way we describe boys is ‘Oh you’re so strong, you’re so good at sport’. With girls we say oh you’re so pretty, you’re so adorable’ – and it does limit you. I remember being told I was cute and feeling it was really patronising – what if I wanted to get muddy and play with the boys? I felt like I was boxed in by this one word”.

Her earlier dismissal of Emma Watson’s first-world feminism: “I actually emailed her saying ‘I want to apologise for how this turned out’. She said to me that it’s going to happen and was really supportive. And I thought, actually this is what it’s all about – women supporting each other in this industry, where it’s like being thrown to a pack of wolves and it’s really scary. When she said that to me it made me feel so confident – which is what I’m doing here in New York right now for other girls. That’s what she did for me”.

[From E! News, Parade & The Telegraph]

Maisie is a dream-killer about Jon Snow, isn’t she? I wonder if she knows what’s really going to happen and she’s just gleefully lying about it, or if she doesn’t know and really believes Jon is gone. SOB! As for the rest of it… I give her some credit. She’s been famous because of Game of Thrones for years now and she’s managed to grow up a lot in public, and sometimes it’s been messy and sometimes we’ve rolled our eyes at her, but she’s trying. And she is a cool young person – I’d much rather have more Maisies in this world than, like, Kylie Jenners.

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