--- title: 'Game of Thrones' Nearly Lost Jessica Henwick's Sandsnake description: Jessica Henwick has been so busy with other projects that she almost had to bail on returning to Game of Thrones. canonical: https://time.com/4835405/game-of-thrones-got-jessica-henwick-sandsnake/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-27T19:05:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:20:40.469Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: The Real Reason This Game of Thrones Character Almost Vanished From the Show og:description: Jessica Henwick almost had to bail on returning to Game of Thrones og:url: https://time.com/4835405/game-of-thrones-got-jessica-henwick-sandsnake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb1982f3b643f3ab/6987ea4f06f2c149de337a30/game-of-thrones-21.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-21 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Real Reason This Game of Thrones Character Almost Vanished From the Show twitter:description: Jessica Henwick almost had to bail on returning to Game of Thrones twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb1982f3b643f3ab/6987ea4f06f2c149de337a30/game-of-thrones-21.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Real Reason This _Game of Thrones_ Character Almost Vanished From the Show > Sponsored content. 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After being cast as Colleen Wing in _Marvel’s Iron Fist_, _The Force Awakens_ actress was so slammed that when the HBO drama tried to summon her back for season 7 last year to reprise her role as the deadly Nymeria Sand, she initially told them she couldn’t make it work. “I wasn’t able to do it,” Henwick tells EW. “My schedule clashed. I was filming _Iron Fist_ for six-to-seven months and they wouldn’t give me the time off. \[_GoT_\] was so massive for me in terms of my career and building my profile and as an experience in itself, I wanted to return. \[A _GoT_ producer explained\], ‘It’s really important that you come back otherwise your character will just disappear.’ So I spoke to Marvel and I managed to get a release. I literally was flying back and forth while I was doing _Iron Fist_ in New York to Belfast, even during Christmas break.” Even so, the actress admits to feeling tempted to [pull a T.J. Miller](http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/02/t-j-miller-silicon-valley-exit-interview/) (who’s her co-star, by the way, in next year’s deep-sea thriller _Underwater_, and who just left _Silicon Valley_). “I’m not going to lie, a part of me was like, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t do it … maybe Nymeria does just disappear!’” Henwick says. “And then fans will never know what happened to her, just like with Joe Dempsie. It would be like: ‘What happened to her?’ ‘_No one knows_…’” Dempsie plays King Robert’s young bastard blacksmith son Gendry on _GoT_ and was last seen rowing away from danger in season 4 and is an ongoing point of fan curiosity — just like the Russian gangster who forever vanished into the woods in _The Sopranos_. But since Henwick’s bullwhip-lashing Sandsnake _does_ show up, what can she tease for her character? “When we left Nymeria she was newly aligned with Olenna Tyrell \[Diana Rigg\] and was going to start a war,” she says. “We pick up right where we left off and get into the nitty gritty very quickly. There is no time wasted this season.” Indeed, as EW previously reported, the [pace of season 7 is the fastest yet](http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/23/game-of-thrones-season-7-pace/). Oh, and here’s [the latest trailer](http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/21/game-of-thrones-season-7-new-trailer/). 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