--- title: Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams Sends Arya Stark Message description: Arya Stark definitely got to have the last laugh against the Freys — and actor Maisie Williams was laughing right along with her. canonical: https://time.com/4866210/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-message/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-20T14:55:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:31.437Z og:title: Maisie Williams Sent a Game of Thrones Message in Arya Stark Style og:description: The North remembers og:url: https://time.com/4866210/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-message/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d4d066c0f386cdf/6988d5e9096a94ee7e69ec9f/arya-stark-premiere.jpeg?branch=production&width=660&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 660 og:image:height: 371 og:image:alt: Game-of-Thrones-S7-E1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Maisie Williams Sent a Game of Thrones Message in Arya Stark Style twitter:description: The North remembers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d4d066c0f386cdf/6988d5e9096a94ee7e69ec9f/arya-stark-premiere.jpeg?branch=production&width=660&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Maisie Williams Just Sent a Cheeky _Game of Thrones_ Message in True Arya Stark Style > Sponsored content. 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After murdering and taking the face of Walder Frey, the young assassin tricked the remaining members of the Frey army into drinking poisoned wine. “When people ask you what happened here, tell them the North remembers,” she told Walder’s newest wife, who she had prevented from drinking the wine. “Tell them winter came for House Frey.” The scene was not only one of the [most talked about moments](http://time.com/4861813/game-of-thrones-premiere-moments-arya-ed-sheeran-daenerys/) from Sunday’s episode, but also inspired Maisie Williams — who plays Arya — to post a picture in support of her character’s actions. The 20-year-old actor took to Instagram Wednesday to share a photo of herself in a tree holding her middle finger up. “Hey, Frey army,” she captioned the shot. “Stormborn,” the second episode of _Game of Thrones_‘ seventh season airs July 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4866210/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-message/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4866210/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-message/"},"headline":"Maisie Williams Just Sent a Cheeky Game of Thrones Message in True Arya Stark Style","datePublished":"2017-07-20T14:55:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:31.437Z","description":"The North remembers","url":"https://time.com/4866210/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-message/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","TV","Maisie Williams","Arya Stark"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d4d066c0f386cdf/6988d5e9096a94ee7e69ec9f/arya-stark-premiere.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d4d066c0f386cdf/6988d5e9096a94ee7e69ec9f/arya-stark-premiere.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game-of-Thrones-S7-E1","caption":"","creditText":"Helen Sloan—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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4866210/game-of-thrones-maisie-williams-arya-stark-message/","name":"Maisie Williams Just Sent a Cheeky Game of Thrones Message in True Arya Stark Style"}}]}] ```