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8 Feb, 2016

Says Elba should be next Dr Who

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At the British Film Awards, Williams says she’d like to play Dr Who if Elba does not take the role.

Yes it would be cool but right now I’m locked into some other things. I think a female doctor would be incredible. I think a black doctor would be incredible. I’m all for Idris Elba – but if not I’ll take it for the team and do it!

9 Apr, 2015

Kill List video

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Williams appears in a video directed by Pullin, for Dazed, encouraging young people to vote in the UK General election on May 7, 2015. The video riffs on the ‘kill list’ of her Game of Thrones character, Anya Stark, listing David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Clarkson and Gary Barlow among others.

My name is Maisie Williams. I turn 18 on the 15th April. That means I can vote in the next months election. So can 3.3 million of you. But you know what? I’m not going to tell you what to do. People have been telling you what to do all your lives. They think that you’re self obsessed, selfie-taking generation. They’ve counted on that. They’ve kicked your future in the teeth and hoped you didn’t notice. I can smell which way the wind is blowing. I don’t need to tell any of you what to do. I just have one question – Who’s next?

Maisie Williams "Kill List" (Arya Stark, Game of Thrones)

8 Apr, 2015

Dazed Cover

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Williams appears on the cover of Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Dazed. She talks about sexual taboos, feminism and the way that youngsters are treated by adults in today’s society.

People think we’re f***ing stupid and we don’t know anything about anything.

30 Mar, 2015

Williams to guest star

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Williams is slated to guest star in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who.

I’m so excited to be working on Doctor Who, as it’s such a big and important part of British culture. I can’t wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we’ll be shooting not too far from my home town.

Moffat:

We’re thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It’s not possible to say too much about who or what she’s playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell.

15 Jun, 2014

The Children

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the tenth episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, The Children. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, the kingsguard deserter known as the Hound who is holding Arya captive. Gwendoline Christie plays Brienne of Tarth, a female warrior loyal to the Starks. Daniel Portman plays Podrick Payne, Brienne’s companion. Brienne and Podrick catch sight of Arya while she is practicing swordfighting. Brienne states that she has sworn loyalty to Arya’s family and that she will take her to safety. However the Hound notices a sword given to Brienne by Jaime Lannister and accuses her of being a Lannister loyalist. The pair fight, with Brienne winning a brutal battle. Arya hides, and emerges only after Brienne and Podrick have gone off in search of her. The Hound pleads for a merciful death, but she leaves him to die from his wounds. She takes a horse to the coast of the Vale and asks a ship’s captain to take her to the North. He refuses, and says the ship is traveling to the free city of Braavos. Remembering the codewords given to her by the Braavosi assassin Jaqen H’ghar, Arya is able to board the ship and sail from Westeros.

1 Jun, 2014

The Mountain and the Viper

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the eighth episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, The Mountain and the Viper. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, the kingsguard deserter known as the Hound who is holding Arya captive. The Hound and Arya arrive at the stronghold of Arya’s aunt, the Lady Lysa Arryn, where the Hound plans to ransom Arya. They are informed that Lady Lysa is dead, and Arya laughs bitterly at the irony.

18 May, 2014

Mockingbird

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the seventh episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, Mockingbird. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, a kingsguard deserter known as the Hound who is holding Arya captive. They are confronted by two men, Biter and Rorge, who had been prisoners of the Night’s Watch until they escaped during a battle with Lannister forces. The Hound kills Biter and questions Rorge, who reveals that a bounty has been placed on the Hound. Recognizing Rorge as the man who threatened to rape her while she was traveling with the Night’s Watch, Arya stabs him through the heart.

4 May, 2014

First of His Name

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the fifth episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, First of His Name. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, the kingsguard deserter known as the Hound who is holding Arya captive. Arya and the Hound continue to travel eastwards through Westeros towards the Eyrie, the stronghold of Arya’s aunt Lady Lysa Arryn, where the Hound plans to ransom her.

20 Apr, 2014

Breaker of Chains

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the third episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, Breaker of Chains. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, the kingsguard deserter known as the Hound. Traveling through the Riverlands in central Westeros, Arya and the Hound are taken in by a farmer and his daughter. After staying the night, Arya is shocked to find that the Hound has violently robbed the farmer, as he says the man will not survive the winter and does not need his silver.

6 Apr, 2014

Two Swords

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maisie-williams-two-swordsWilliams appears as Arya Stark in the first episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, Two Swords. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, the former kingsguard known as the Hound. After the deaths of her mother and brother, the Hound plans to ransom Arya to her aunt, the Lady Lysa Arryn. As they travel towards Lysa’s stronghold in eastern Westeros, Arya and the Hound encounter Lannister soldiers at an inn. Recognizing one as the man who took her sword Needle during her capture by the Lannisters, Arya insists on entering the inn and confronting them. The Hound is able to overcome four of the soldiers in a brutal battle. Arya uses Needle to kill the last man.

9 Jun, 2013

Mhysa

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the tenth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, Mhysa. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, the former Lannister loyalist and kingsguard known as the Hound. At the stronghold of House Frey, the Hound flees the scene of the betrayal of Robb Stark with Arya, who he has knocked unconscious for her own safety. Arya regains consciousness and witnesses soldiers of her brother’s former allies desecrating his body. After escaping, Arya and the Hound come across a group of Frey soldiers in the Riverlands in the center of Westeros. One of them boasts that he was responsible for the desecration of Robb’s corpse. Arya approaches him and tricks him into letting down his guard, before murdering him. The Hound is able to kill the rest of the men, but is stunned at Arya’s actions.

2 Jun, 2013

The Rains of Castamere

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the ninth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, The Rains of Castamere. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, a former Lannister loyalist and desrter from the kingsguard. Arya and the Hound arrive at the Twins, the stronghold of the House of Frey, who have pledged allegiance to the Starks. The Hound plans to ransom Arya to her brother, Robb Stark. As they arrive, they are turned away by the guards. Arya evades the Hound in order to investigate what is happening inside the castle. She witnesses the slaughter of Robb’s direwolf by Frey soldiers, and senses that his former allies have turned on him. She runs towards the castle, but is stopped by the Hound who says that it is too late to help her brother and knocks her unconscious before carrying her to safety.

19 May, 2013

Second Sons

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the eighth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, Second Sons. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, a former Lannister loyalist nicknamed the Hound, who is holding Arya captive. Arya protests at what she believes is the Hound’s plan to take her back to King’s Landing. The Hound reveals that he has deserted the kingsguard and that he plans to ransom Arya to her family.

12 May, 2013

The Bear and the Maiden Fair

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the seventh episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, The Bear and the Maiden Fair. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, a former Lannister loyalist who has deserted the kingsguard. Arya escapes from the Brotherhood Without Banners, a rebel group that had been planning to ransom her to her brother Robb Stark. However she is immediately captured by the Hound, who was a fellow captive of the Brotherhood and has been waiting for her since the Brotherhood released him.

5 May, 2013

The Climb

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the sixth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, The Climb. Carice van Houten plays Melisandre, the Red Priestess of the Lord of Light. Joe Dempsie plays Gendry, Arya’s companion. Melisandre arrives at the hideout of the rebel group Brothership Without Banners, and tells the group that Gendry is required by the Lord of Light. In return, she provides the group with gold for their mission to disrupt the Lannister and Stark armies. Arya accuses Melisandre of being a witch. Melisandre responds by saying that she has had a vision that Arya will kill many people in the future, and that they will meet again.

28 Apr, 2013

Kissed by Fire

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the fifth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, Kissed by Fire. Joe Dempsie plays her companion Gendry. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, known as the Hound, a deserter from the kingsguard. At the hideout of the renegade Brotherhood Without Banners group, The Hound appears to kill the leader of the group, Ser Berric Dondarrion, in his trial by combat. The warrior priest Thoros of Myr, played by Paul Kaye, revives Ser Berric through the power of the Lord of Light, a new religion that is gathering followers in Westeros. The Hound is declared innocent and allowed to leave. Despite Arya’s offer to join the household of the Stark noble family, Gendry tells Arya that he will remain with the Brotherhood after they deliver her to her older brother Robb in the north of Westeros. He appreciates their egalitarian ideals whereas with the Starks he would be separated by his status as a commoner.

14 Apr, 2013

And Now His Watch is Ended

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the fourth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, Walk of Punishment. Rory McCann plays Sandor Clegane, known as The Hound, the former kingsguard captured by the Brotherhood Without Banners bandits after deserting King’s Laning. The Brotherhood explain that they are former Stark soldiers who became trapped behind enemy lines but that they now oppose the war and fight against both the Starks and the Lannisters. They question The Hound over crimes by Lannister loyalists, many of which he says were committed by his brother, Ser Gregor Clegane. Arya responds that The Hound killed her friend, Mycah the butcher’s boy, who had fought with the then-Prince Joffrey Baratheon. The Hound says that he had no choice but to follow Joffrey’s orders, and the Brotherhood declare a trial by combat.

Walk of Punishment

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Williams appears as Arya Stark in the third episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, Walk of Punishment. Joe Dempsie and Ben Hawkey play her companions, Gendry and Hot Pie. As they prepare to leave the inn, Hot Pie reveals that he is not going with the others as he is not suited to a life of traveling and fighting, and he has been hired to serve in the inn’s kitchen.

7 Apr, 2013

Dark Wings, Dark Words

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maisie-williams-arya-dark-wings-dark-wordsWilliams appears as Arya Stark in the second episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones, Dark Wings, Dark Words. Her companions Gendry and Hot Pie are played by Joe Dempsie and Ben Hawkey. After escaping from Lannister forces at Harrenhal castle, Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie are taken in by the secret society known as the Brotherhood Without Banners and given food and drink at an inn. Members of the Brotherhood bring the captive kingsguard Sandor Clegane, played by Rory McCann. Clegane recognizes Arya and notifies their captors that she is a daughter of the Stark noble family.