Maisie Williams, 22, appeared to have made life difficult for her actor friend and housemate Bill Milner, 24, in the lead-up to The Battle of Winterfell on Sunday night. Bill, who has appeared in Son of Rambow and X-Men: First Class, took to Twitter to air his grievances on Monday, the day after the third episode of Game of Thrones season eight first aired in the US and was simulcast in the UK in the early hours of the morning. With fans all over the world desperately trying to avoid spoilers until they could settle down to watch the show for themselves, he tweeted his 9,416 followers: “You all think it’s hard avoiding #GameofThrones spoilers? Try living with Arya. I’m dodging them in my own damn kitchen,” he quipped.
Arya Stark actress Maisie appeared to see the funny side of her pal’s post, retweeting it in view of her own 2.5 million followers.
Fans also sympathised with Bill, with one commenting: “I can see how that would be a problem. Especially when the script is literally sitting right in front of you and you can hear her practising her lines in the next room over.”
“The kitchen is dark and full of spoilers,” another joked, while a third chimed in: “What do we say to spoilers? Not today!”
The Battle of Winterfell saw Arya take down the Night King on Sunday night, sending shockwaves through the Game of Thrones fanbase.
She recently revealed her reaction when she first discovered she would be the one to kill the Night King, admitting she hadn’t read the full script before getting together with the cast for their first table read.
Telling Entertainment Weekly she couldn’t understand why everyone was so exciting about the storyline, she said: “I was like, ‘Are we fighting the wights?
“‘Does the Night King die? So who kills him? What happens?’
“And no one would say anything,” she continued. “[I thought] why is no one saying it? this is crazy.”
Of course, when the cast reached the tense moment in the read-through, it got a huge cheer.
“It was so unbelievably exciting,” Maisie recalled. “But I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn’t deserve it.
“The hardest thing in any series is when you build up a villain that’s so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them,” she explained.
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“It has to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, ‘Well, [the villain] couldn’t have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.’ You gotta make it cool.”
When she worried whether the person to kill the Night King should in fact have been her co-star Kit Harrington’s character Jon Snow, even he insisted the plot was perfect for Arya.
“It gives Arya’s training a purpose — to have an end goal,” the actor, 32, told the publication. “It’s much better how she does it, the way she does it.”
Arya’s victory over the Night King also had a fan in the form of Maisie’s best friend and Game of thrones co-star Sophie Turner, 23, who sent the actress an ecstatic voice message after the episode aired.
In the clip, which Maisie shared with her 10 million Instagram followers, Sophie could be heard praising: “Arya really is that b***h. Yes. You. Are. B***h!”
Game of Thrones season eight, episode four will air on HBO Sunday at 9pm and will be simulcast in the UK Monday at 2am and at 9pm.