Sophie Turner: ‘It was awful’ Game of Thrones’ Sansa Stark admits CRYING during filming

Sophie Turner’s character on Game of Thrones, Sansa Stark, is usually away from all the fighting.

But Sansa couldn’t escape the horror in episode three, season eight, as she hid down in the crypts.

The Night King rose the dead which resulted in many mummified wights running around where she and Tyrion Lannister (played by Peter Dinklage), plus many women and children, were hiding out during the Battle of Winterfell.

Speaking about filming the scene where the wights broke free, Sophie, 23, admitted she found it scary and ended up crying.

She spilled in an inside look of the episode on Game of Thrones’ YouTube account: “There was one point where I had to run through a crowd of people and wights were coming out and one came up to me.

“I actually started crying.”

The star explained: “I was so scared. Whenever I get scared I just cry and it was so awful.”

“Those wights are horrible and just as scary in real life. I hate them,” Sophie added.

Peter Dinklage, 49, who plays Tyrion Lannister, also spoke about filming the tense scene.

He divulged: “Down in the crypt becomes a complete horror for me, it’s terrifying down there.

“We’re in a crypt, nobody thought of that!”

Peter went on: “He’s bringing all the dead people back to life and they’ve put women and children in the crypt with all the dead people!”

Discussing his character’s intelligence, Peter added: “Tyrion is smart, but I guess not the smart.”

During the tense episode, Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) became the unlikely hero as she stabbed the Night King in the chest, which ultimately saw the White Walkers get defeated.

Speaking about discovering she was going to take on the incredible role, Maisie said in the video: “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’.

‘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’.”

Addressing 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.”

Game of Thrones episode four, season eight will air on HBO at 9pm Sunday and will be simulcast in the UK at 2am Monday and at 9pm.

source: express.co.uk