Sansa actress says ‘yes’ to returning for new Game of Thrones stories, but with a condition that makes it impossible for us to see her in Westeros again

After the controversial ending of Game of Thrones in 2019, HBO decided to continue the story by developing different prequels like The House of the Dragon (which premiered its second season in the summer) and The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Why not a sequel? Well, the Warner Bros. subsidiary was already reluctant to the idea, and the spin-off starring Jon Snow didn’t come to fruition, but Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) would say yes to returning to Westeros.

However, she would do it with one indispensable condition: it would have to be a ninth season. In other words, not a spin-off, but a sequel in every sense:

“Before we finish, I have to ask about Game of Thrones. Could we see Sansa Stark return someday? “It’s possible. I mean, it would have to be something exactly with the same cast and crew. Otherwise, I wouldn’t come back. And that being said, it could only be a ninth season, and I don’t think we’re going to do it. But I loved playing Sansa, and from time to time I wonder what she could be doing now. Where is she five years after [the end of the series]? Is she still the queen in the North? Is she a good ruler? Has there been any other terrible war? I would love to see it.”

With these statements to Variety, it seems evident that she is asking for an impossible as Sansa, for example, does not seem to settle for a Jon Snow series where she could play a prominent role as queen in the North, but something on the scale of the original fiction and this, at least in the short term, would not make any sense.

Sansa Stark, defender of the showrunners

Not to mention her demand to have the original team. As recalled by GameStar, Turner has been one of the actresses who most wanted to stand up for the former showrunners and producers of Game of Thrones after that ending so criticized on social media and by much of the press. For example, in 2019 we saw her calling “disrespectful” the petition where several thousand “fans” asked HBO to completely remake the ending:

“All these petitions and things like that are, in my opinion, a lack of respect towards the team, the writers, and the filmmakers who worked tirelessly for ten years, and eleven months filming the final season. […] Many people worked very hard on it, and for people to despise it because it’s not what they want to see is disrespectful“.

Personally, and seeing how Game of Thrones is going to continue in one way or another on television, I wouldn’t mind seeing some kind of continuation in a year that could also serve to give a certain importance to the controversial end of the drama. But for now, HBO prefers to focus on prequels in their spin-offs.

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