Sansa Stark is woke now, Alfie Allen has a cute dog and everyone got sick of answering all those questions about whether Jon Snow was dead or alive, but little else was revealed at the annual Game of Thrones panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.
Speaking to a 6,500-person crowd during the show’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Sophie Turner was joined by some of her fellow cast mates include Alfie Allen (and Allen’s dog Abby), Gwendoline Christie, John Bradley, Isaac Hempsted Wright and Nathalie Emmanuel. Hodor actor Kristian Nairn moderated the gathering.
Notably missing were the show’s biggest stars, like Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, as well as showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
The popular HBO show kicked off its seven-episode seventh season last week, with a new episode called Stormborn airing this Sunday.
As usual, the cast remained tight-lipped about the current season or the next, which is planned to be the series’ last. Turner, whose Sansa Stark has emerged as a major player in the world of Westeros, said her once-naive character no longer sees the world through “rose-tinted glasses.”
“She’s woke now, guys, she’s real woke,” Turner said. “She’s cool, she trusts no one, whether it be man or woman or family or not and I think that’s important when you play the game of thrones.”
She acknowledged the brewing tension between Sansa and her half-brother Jon Snow (Harington), who are now working together.
“There is still that sibling rivalry back from when they were young. There’s still that sexism that’s ingrained in the culture,” she said. “He’s the military man, she’s the politician. I think they need to realise that they need to stop fighting for ultimate power and just work together.”
Speaking of Jon Snow, the cast members laughed about how annoying it was to have to answer questions about whether or not his character was alive or not for a year. The secretive show played coy about his fate between seasons five and six.
Actor John Bradley said they basically had to talk about it every five minutes “for a year.” Nairn added that in a moment of frustration, he just said “I don’t care,” which websites extrapolated to mean that he “hates Kit Harington.”
New ‘GoT’ trailer drops
Game of Thrones dropped a new trailer at San Diego Comic-Con, showing the armies of the Seven Kingdoms gearing up for war, with an undead horde on the march. Queen Cersei warns the people in King’s Landing to beware of the incoming Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen, who finally landed in Westeros in the season seven premiere.
There were the usual battles, sweeping panoramas and politicking, as well as an appearance from Melisandre, who is seen counselling Daenerys that she may not be the only “chosen one.”
“I believe you have a role to play, as does another,” the Red Woman tells the Mother of Dragons at the close of the trailer.
According to Game of Thrones mythology, a hero who saved humankind from the White Walkers thousands of years ago is destined to be reborn and save the world again. It is unclear who Melisandre is thinking of, but the most likely candidate would be Jon Snow, the newly crowned King in the North whom she met in season five.
The season seven trailer shows Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish telling the eldest Stark daughter Sansa: “Every possible series of events is happening all at once.”
