Maisie Williams, 22, was the unlikely hero as Arya Stark in the latest episode of Game of Thrones.
The British actress’s character was the one who defeated the Night King and the White Walkers by stabbing the leader in the chest with a Valyrian dagger.
Speaking about discovering she was going to take on the incredible role, Maisie said in an inside look into the episode on YouTube: “I got a call from Miguel [Sapochnik[ like a year before we started shooting.
“He said ‘I can’t tell you anything but get your endurance up now, I want you to be training, you have a lot to do’.
I probably hold the record for the most apologies on set
Maisie Williams
“‘It’s gonna be night shoots, three months of night shoots’. And I was like ‘okay’.
“I think I was in Boston at the time like eating cheese fries like ‘cool’.”
Discussing Arya’s fight against the wights in the Battle of Winterfell, Maisie continued: “Her entire fight was a real great moment and everything I did and had learned really did come down to that.
“I used every skill that I have learned in that fight.”
Maisie went on: “It’s one thing practising a fight which is a sparring fight but when you’re actually fighting for you life with loads of stuntmen who do these day to day and I’m not scared of anything but they’re covered in this crazy
