Her amateur-level performances were enough to weave her way into contention for the role of playing the young daughter of a powerful Lord on a new, relatively low-key HBO series named Game of Thrones... In the same Coventry Telegraph interview, Turner explained the audition process: Playbox put me up for a lot of auditions, but it was through my drama teacher at school I heard about the Game of Thrones audition. The casting director knew about the drama department at our school. I had four more call backs in London. It was really intense, but fun. I did a lot of chemistry tests with other people the last one was with Maisie (Williams) who plays Arya. She is lovely. She has also previously stated: "Getting Game of Thrones was amazing. I was 13, on holiday in France, and my mum woke me up saying, "Morning Sansa!" I burst out crying and jumped in the pool." A rational response to landing a life-changing role in a worldwide mega-series.
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