--- title: Sophie Turner Thought the End of 'Thrones' Was 'Satisfying' description: The actress who plays Sansa Stark thinks fans will have a divided reaction to the series finale — but as an actor she was satisfied. canonical: https://time.com/5408551/sophie-turner-thrones-end/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-27T16:45:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:08.458Z og:title: Sansa Stark Is Really Getting to Know Herself on Game of Thrones og:description: And she thinks fans may be divided in their feelings about the finale og:url: https://time.com/5408551/sophie-turner-thrones-end/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd231062db921c838/6988d832196cf44b980414ab/game-of-thrones-spoils-od-war-sansa-stark-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-spoils-of-war-sansa-stark-10 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sansa Stark Is Really Getting to Know Herself on Game of Thrones twitter:description: And she thinks fans may be divided in their feelings about the finale twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd231062db921c838/6988d832196cf44b980414ab/game-of-thrones-spoils-od-war-sansa-stark-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sansa Stark Is About to Become 'the Most Self-Assured' Character on _Game of Thrones_ > Sponsored content. 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Still, some of the actors have been making obscure hints about the show’s future, including Sansa Stark actor [Sophie Turner.](http://time.com/5385866/sophie-turner-joe-jonas/) In an [interview with IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/09/27/game-of-thrones-season-8-sansa-stark-sophie-turner-hbo-series-finale-will-divide-fans-will-be-disappointed), Turner said that getting to act out the end of _Thrones_ was “really satisfying.” (Filming for _Thrones_ wrapped earlier this summer.) “Who knows if it will be satisfying for the fans,” she continued. “I think a lot of fans will be disappointed and a lot of fans will be over the moon, I think. I think it will be really interesting to see people’s reactions, but for me reading the script it was just like heartbreaking to read at the very final page of the script it just says, ‘End of Game of Thrones’. That was really emotional.” Turner further elucidated Sansa’s future: --- > “” --- While we wait to see what Turner means with her potential Sansa teaser, Turner has plenty of other things to focus on this fall: the trailer just dropped for her upcoming X-men film [_Dark Phoenix_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6565702/), in which she plays the titular character Jean Grey, which will be in theaters in February. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5408551/sophie-turner-thrones-end/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5408551/sophie-turner-thrones-end/"},"headline":"Sansa Stark Is About to Become 'the Most Self-Assured' Character on Game of Thrones","datePublished":"2018-09-27T16:45:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:08.458Z","description":"\"Who knows if it will be satisfying for the fans\"","url":"https://time.com/5408551/sophie-turner-thrones-end/","keywords":["Newsfeed","game of thrones"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd231062db921c838/6988d832196cf44b980414ab/game-of-thrones-spoils-od-war-sansa-stark-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd231062db921c838/6988d832196cf44b980414ab/game-of-thrones-spoils-od-war-sansa-stark-10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-spoils-of-war-sansa-stark-10","caption":"","creditText":"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":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5408551/sophie-turner-thrones-end/","name":"Sansa Stark Is About to Become 'the Most Self-Assured' Character on Game of Thrones"}}]}] ```