Sophie Turner's Heartwarming Thank You To Sansa Stark Will Have You In Tears
Right now that
Game of Thrones has (sniffle) come to an end, we're all honestly a little emotional about seeing it all draw to a close.
So is Sansa Stark (
Sophie Turner) herself, who
saw her time in the show end this past Sunday (May 19) as well. After the finale, Turner took to Instagram with a heartwarming thank you to the character she's portrayed for nearly a decade. Be forewarned: you're going to need to ready some tissues.
Warning: this blog post contains major spoilers for the series finale of Game of Thrones.
Taking to Instagram, Turner posted a photo that gathered the entirety of the
Game of Thrones cast posing as one big happy family member. She thanked Stark, the newly-crowned Queen of the North, for all that the character gave her over the course of filming the show.
"Sansa, thank you for teaching me resilience, bravery, and what true strength really is. Thank you teaching me to be kind and patient and to lead with love," wrote Turner. "I grew up with you. I fell in love with you at 13 and right now 10 years on...At 23 I leave you beyond, yet I plan to never leave in back of what you’ve taught me. To the show and the incredible people who make it, thank you for giving me the perfect life and drama lessons I might have ever asked for. Without you, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. Thank you for giving me this chance all those years prior. And finally to the fans. Thank you for falling in love with these characters and supporting this show right through till the end. I’ll miss this more than anything."
We know how critical playing Sansa has been for Sophie for some time, especially with the tattoo she got to commemorate the show. Sophie chose a direwolf with the words "The pack survives." Written directly below it on her arm.
As it turns out...Yeah, actually, the pack (the Starks) did survive, at the very end of it all. All the remaining Stark children were left alive at the end of the show, and while Turner denied it being anything to do with the show's story, saying it was a "motto she lived by."
“Yeah, actually, While I was getting it done, people advised me not to because it was like I was giving everything away, yet I wasn’t,” Turner explained at the time. “It’s just a quote from last season. Nevertheless each person figures the pack really does survive, although it’s just a moral that I like to live by.”
However as it turned out, she was sort of giving things away even if we didn't realize it at the time. Honestly, we're just glad to be able to see Queen Sansa living her best life at the end of it all. If there's one character who got the ending she deserved it was our sweet little Stark who ended up outliving her tormentors. Right now
that's a good way to go out.
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