--- title: Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner Old Photos description: Maisie Williams seems to be getting more than she bargained for after making an online plea for fans to send her old Game of Thrones photos. canonical: https://time.com/4636532/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-sophie-turner-old-photos/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-17T18:17:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:13.214Z og:title: Game of Thrones Fans Are Finding the Best Old Photos of Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner og:description: Talk about a throwback og:url: https://time.com/4636532/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-sophie-turner-old-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Game of Thrones Fans Are Finding the Best Old Photos of Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner twitter:description: Talk about a throwback twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _Game of Thrones_ Fans Are Finding the Best Old Photos of Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 17, 2017 6:17 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 17, 2017 6:17 PM UTC [Maisie Williams](http://time.com/4462328/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-twitter-season-seven/) seems to be getting more than she bargained for after making an online plea for fans to send her old photos of herself and [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/)co-star [Sophie Turner](http://time.com/4496038/sophie-turner-maisie-williams/). The 19-year-old actress — who plays Arya Stark on the HBO fantasy drama — took to Twitter Monday to ask her followers to share pictures of the on-screen sisters from when the show first began. “Can u pretty please send me funny pictures of Sophie and I when we were well young?,” she wrote. “They make me laugh so much.” However, after receiving a barrage of hilarious shots, Williams apparently began to regret her request. “What have I done,” she tweeted mere minutes later. > [](https://twitter.com/Maisie%5FWilliams/status/820995297669185537) > [](https://twitter.com/Maisie%5FWilliams/status/820996486620213249) Check out some of the best photos of the pair below. > [](https://twitter.com/hun7r%5F/status/820995727040147456) > [](https://twitter.com/EMPAYDEE/status/820995719196712960) > [](https://twitter.com/cerseilcnnister/status/820995462572478465) > [](https://twitter.com/dexter%5Fmch/status/820995479584522240) > [](https://twitter.com/elliestarkss/status/820996089453146113) > [](https://twitter.com/dexter%5Fmch/status/820995752436662272) > [](https://twitter.com/agassiyoga/status/820998056602542084) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4636532/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-sophie-turner-old-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4636532/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-sophie-turner-old-photos/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Fans Are Finding the Best Old Photos of Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner","datePublished":"2017-01-17T18:17:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:13.214Z","description":"Talk about a throwback","url":"https://time.com/4636532/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-sophie-turner-old-photos/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV","Maisie Williams","Arya Stark","Sansa Stark","Sophie Turner"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4636532/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-sophie-turner-old-photos/","name":"Game of Thrones Fans Are Finding the Best Old Photos of Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner"}}]}] ```