Game of Thrones' Arya Stark, Maisie Williams, Opens Up On Her First Sex Scene

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams, the tomboy princess turned assassin in training Arya Stark, last seen blinded at the end of season 5, chose a totally different path. Rather than play a role for a big-budget film to enhance her career, she opted for the dark indie drama film The Falling. Set in 1969 in a strict English all girls school, the film tells the story of a mysterious fainting epidemic that takes hold after a tragedy occurs.

Much like the Aussie classic Picnic At Hanging Rock, which was used as an inspiration by director Carol Morley, it also deals with repressed desire and burgeoning sexuality. The part of the rebellious Lydia gave Williams a chance to show there was more to her than the badass Arya.

Having just turned eighteen in April, (she was sixteen when the film was made), The Falling also gave her a chance to tackle head-on the kind of scenes she knew were going her way: the film also features her first sex scene — modest, but within the context of the story, disturbing — modest, but within the context of the stor, disturbing.

Here's the trailer for The Falling:

"I have just always been intrigued by doing really interesting characters and whether or not that means it's part of a studio film or an indie project, or a foreign movie, it's all about great characters for me," she says (via news.com.au) . "But because this is such a different audience to the one I perform to in 'Game Of Thrones' it was a bit scary, but I feel like indie films are something that really interests me and I am so thrilled to have been a part of something that was successful."

"Being an actress and thinking of movies that you are going to do and characters you want to play and in terms of growing up on screen and taking on those more adult roles, you want to do it in a classy way and a way that's really necessary," she says.

"I read so many scripts with these big nude scenes that are just not necessary at all and don't make any sense, as though someone has just written it for a bit of raciness. But I felt this was something I was very aware of that was going to be coming up soon — nudity or these sort of themes — and I wanted to do something that was really necessary and relevant."

"I just went to my friend's university halls recently, like where he and all his mates live, and it was really cool," she says. "Everyone has a tiny bedroom and a shared kitchen and compared to some of the hotels I stay in it's not amazing but the experience of going to uni and being irresponsible that appeals. So sometimes I feel it would have been nice to have that experience and have those funny times at school because I never really had that."

The Falling is now screening exclusively at ACMI

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