--- description: On Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, Arya Stark faced off against the Waif. title: Maisie Williams on Arya's Big 'Game of Thrones' Showdown image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5701f1b49610a8e0/6987ea4c55a859a655a897b8/game-of-thrones-12.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Maisie Williams on Arya's Big _Game of Thrones_ Showdown by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 13, 2016 3:02 AM CUT  Maisie Williams as Arya Stark. Maisie Williams as Arya Stark.Macall B. Polay—HBO by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 13, 2016 3:02 AM CUT **Warning:** This post contains spoilers for the sixth season of _Game of Thrones_. On [Sunday night’s episode of ](http://time.com/4365719/game-of-thrones-season-six-episode-8-recap/ "undefined")[_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4365719/game-of-thrones-season-six-episode-8-recap/ "undefined")_,_ [Arya Stark faced off against the Waif](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/12/game-thrones-maisie-williams-waif-no-one "undefined"). Tension has been building between the two in recent episodes, and it spiked at the end of last week’s, when the Waif [stabbed](http://time.com/4357855/game-of-thrones-arya-stark-season-6/ "undefined") Arya in the streets of Braavos. Arya managed to survive by throwing herself off a bridge into the water below. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly_,_ Maisie Williams, who plays Arya, [described](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/12/game-thrones-maisie-williams-waif-no-one "undefined") an intense round of shooting for the scene “I had been to a music festival so I hadn’t slept the whole weekend,” she said. “Then I was jumping in the Irish sea. It was a totally manic day. We did a million different takes. We wanted it to be real frantic and panicked.” “Arya hasn’t been emotional in a long time and we wanted to bring that emotion,” she added. “When it’s a long-running series you have go give her light and shade. It’s the first time she thinks she’s not going to make it and it’s scary. She ends peoples’ lives like there’s no tomorrow, but when it’s finally happening to her she’s petrified. She’s petrified of dying. She’s got so much more to do.” [Read more at Entertainment Weekly](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/12/game-thrones-maisie-williams-waif-no-one "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4365698/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-waif/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4365698/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-waif/"},"headline":"Maisie Williams on Arya's Big Game of Thrones Showdown","datePublished":"2016-06-13T03:02:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:32:59.217Z","description":"On Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, Arya Stark faced off against the Waif.","url":"https://time.com/4365698/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-waif/","keywords":["Television","game of thrones","Maisie Williams","Arya Stark"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5701f1b49610a8e0/6987ea4c55a859a655a897b8/game-of-thrones-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5701f1b49610a8e0/6987ea4c55a859a655a897b8/game-of-thrones-12.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-12","caption":"Maisie Williams as Arya Stark.","creditText":"Macall B. Polay—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4365698/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-waif/","name":"Maisie Williams on Arya's Big Game of Thrones Showdown"}}]}] ```