Sophie Turner when auditioned for the role of Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, she was barely a teenager. A year later, she taped the first season, and by the time the show aired, she was 15 years old.

Game of Thrones has a reputation for being a harsh series right from the start. Joffrey Baratheon—the wicked king who just had Sansa’s father slain right in front of her—takes her up on the ramparts in the closing episode of season one so she can see her father’s severed head to a pike. Turner was 14 when the sequence was shot.

From there, the show only became more brutal, with succeeding seasons subjecting Turner’s character to beatings and sexual assault. So, how does a young actor deal with such uncomfortable situations? In a new story from The Cut, Turner discusses it with her X-Men: Dark Phoenix co-star Jessica Chastain.

“I kind of find it quite easy to go in and out [of character],” Turner said. “You saw on X-Men, in between takes, singing and dancing together. It does help having people around that are also willing to step out of it as well. And it’s just something that growing up on a show like Game of Thrones, the subject matter was so heavy that I just developed a coping mechanism of just having the most fun in between takes, so I wouldn’t get traumatized.”

She continued, saying: “I’m sure I’ll exhibit some symptoms of trauma down the road. At that age, I don’t think I could comprehend a lot of the scene matter. And the first few years, I had my mom with me because she was chaperoning me, so she would be very helpful and give me snacks.”

Now 26 years old, Turned has done a lot of growing up; she’s married to Joe Jonas and has a second child on the way. But in some ways, she still feels like she has a lot to learn about herself. “It’s amazing because I think for 10 years, I felt like I needed to be the person that everyone else saw because I was growing up and I didn’t know anything else,” she said. “Other than the character that I was playing in Game of Thrones and then other people’s perceptions of me, I didn’t have time to figure out who I was as a person. And so when Game of Thrones ended, I started developing, like, a personal life and then finally a taste for what I actually wanted to do in my work and things like that. I feel like I’m only on the beginning of my journey of evolving into a person I probably should have evolved into about 10 years ago.”

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