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What I learned about confidence? Well, actually, my soon-to-be sister-in-law, Priyanka, she taught me — I asked her: ‘where do you get all this confidence from?’ And she said ‘well, you know, I’m insecure about bits and bobs, but if you want to a reaction that you want to get, you have to walk into that room and be confident and own it, and make people feel welcome and loved and happy to be there with you.’ So that’s what I learned about confidence. I think nobody really has that much, but if you kind of own it and you pretend to be that person, you’ll get a much warmer response, so I’m trying to do that as well. — Sophie Turner for Harper’s Bazaar UK, May 2019

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“I have two older brothers who are highly academic and I’m not at all,” she explains. “I was always creative from the age of about two. My best friend and I used to put on plays every time we hung out. It became something my life revolved around.” She joined amateur-theatre groups from the age of four — “It was like breathing to me” — and was a passionate ballet dancer, but turned down a place at White Lodge, the Royal Ballet School, because she couldn’t bear to give up her one-hour acting class at the weekend. “I think it was a good decision in the end,” she says drily. “I’m a bit too tall and I like pasta too much, so I am not sure I would have gone all the way to prima ballerina.” Instead, she joined the cast of Game of Thrones when she was 13. — Sophie Turner for Harper’s Bazaar UK, photographed by Richard Phibbs, May 2019

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[Sophie Turner’s] sabbatical has also included various holidays, documented on Instagram to her 9.4 million followers, where she presents herself very much as she comes across in the flesh — fresh, bright, funny and thoughtful in turns. “If I faked it on Instagram, people would just call me out,” she says, smiling. “Everyone can see what I’m really like in Game of Thrones. I have a big nose and tiny little eyes and a double chin and that’s OK. I’m learning to love my bumpy nose.” For the record, she has none of these things. In Game of Thrones, her profile has a stern Pre-Raphaelite beauty, while in X-Men her look morphs into something more modern. In both films, though not in real life, she has flowing Titian hair. — THE WARRIOR WOMAN: Sophie Turner on fierce feminism, Sansa Stark & the Game of Thrones finale for Harper’s Bazaar UK, photographed by Richard Phibbs, May 2019

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on Game of Thrones, Sansa owned a dire wolf — a huge, intelligent, mythological wolf — until it was stabbed on the orders of her psychotic fiancé; in real life, Turner adopted Zunni, the Northern Inuit dog that played it. “Zunni was a terrible actor, really bad on set,” she says. “She wouldn’t respond to any of my calls and everyone was ready to fire her, so we took her on when I was 14. She was about three feet tall and pretty big.” Zunni lived till the age of 11. — Sophie Turner for Harper’s Bazaar UK, photographed by Richard Phibbs, May 2019

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Turner takes other aspects of her job more seriously than red-carpet preparation, and has begun to fight for the things she believes in. A passionate advocate of the #MeToo movement, she insists in all her contracts that there’s an inclusion rider, which means she can ensure a 50:50 male/female workforce. “Now, you see women in the camera departments, producing, directing. It’s exciting.” Demanding equal pay, on the other hand, is “a little tricky. Kit [Harington, who plays her brother Jon Snow, the King in the North] got more money than me, but he had a bigger storyline. And for the last series, he had something crazy like 70 night shoots, and I didn’t have that many. I was like, ‘You know what... you keep that money.’”

What’s important, she says, is that people are having those conversations about pay more readily and executives are “more willing to listen to people saying, ‘I want the same amount of money.’ So things are getting done, but it will take a while, I think…” As for her own experience of pre-Time’s Up mistreatment, “I’ve had moments where I’ve thought in hindsight, ‘That was not an OK thing for someone to do,’ but I’ve never had anything as extreme as these awful Weinstein cases. Almost half the people you meet in the industry have some sort of tale to tell. We’d talk about it before, but no one was saying, ‘This is weird, someone should speak up.’ People had this idea about Hollywood that it’s big and glamorous and crazy things happen and, ‘That’s showbiz, baby.’ Until suddenly people started looking at it from a more humane point of view and saying, ‘It’s not OK. It’s abuse’.”

Now, she says, potential exploiters of power are definitely thinking twice. “I think everyone’s a bit terrified. Old men… who-ever’s committing these awful crimes. It’s not just being publicly shamed, it’s proper consequences. It’s losing your jobs and going to court. It’s great that these things have happened.” At that, surrounded by balloons, sipping green tea curled up on on the sofa of her Mayfair suite, Sophie Turner suddenly looks as ruthless as Sansa Stark, a true warrior queen. — THE WARRIOR WOMAN: Sophie Turner on fierce feminism, Sansa Stark & the Game of Thrones finale for Harper’s Bazaar UK, photographed by Richard Phibbs, May 2019