10 Things You Didn't Know About Sophie Turner

6. She Owns A Direwolf

One of the coolest 'fictional world meets real world" scenarios is the fact that Turner's family actually adopted one of the dogs used to play one of the gorgeous, loyal direwolves on the show. Sansa's gentle-natured pet, Lady, was put to death instead of Arya's fierce wolf, Nymeria, after the latter bit Joffrey's arm and fled the scene, but thankfully Thrones isn't TOO realistic, and the producers didn't actually execute the animal, of course. The Northern Inuit dog, named Zunni, found herself out of work after the first season when the wolves became CGI creations to show their growing size, but Turner's mother convinced the producers to let them adopt the pet who is now an accepted member of the Turner family. What a memento to treasure after the series wraps.