• Maisie Williams played Arya Stark on the Emmy-winning series for eight seasons.
• She tells Teen Vogue that she assumed her character was gay until a sex scene.
• Arya and Gendry become intimate in the season eight episode “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”

As Maisie Williams said, “The first time that I was surprised by Arya I guess was probably in the final series where she whips off her clothes and sleeps with Gendry,” added, “I thought that Arya was queer, you know? So…yeah. That was a surprise.”

Read more: Maisie Williams resented ‘Game of Thrones’ character Arya Stark

When the first episode of Game of Thrones aired, the actress told Entertainment Weekly that she was astonished to see a sex scene for her character and felt it was a prank by the show’s writers.

She said at the time, “I got to the read-through and I’m reading the scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym.’ A whole list of things.”

Williams recently expressed her feelings on her experience on the extremely popular show. She admitted to British GQ in April that she had mixed thoughts about her persona.

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She further added, “I think that when I started becoming a woman, I resented Arya because I couldn’t express who I was becoming.”

Added, “And then I also resented my body, because it wasn’t aligned with the piece of me that the world celebrated.”