Maisie Williams Won’t Be Anyone’s “Hot Piece”

Last month, “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams declared, “It’s time for society to stop telling girls what they should and shouldn’t do”.

Meanwhile, over at the Evening Standard, Williams talked passionately about the lack good roles for women in film, something she’s seeing a lot more of as her star rises and she gets more offers, but clearly not something she’s comfortable with.

Maisie Williams wants to challenge Hollywood sexism, one role at a time. So I did. It was wonderful, it was so nice to be with my friends and people who really, really matter.

“Sometimes being in this industry and reading terrible things online – for anyone, not just me – does get on top of you so it’s nice to spend time with real people who are right in front of you”, she admitted to Britain’s ES Magazine.

It’s unclear from the set photos if Arya is still blind, as Williams as her eyes closed in each of them, but the smart money says the character still can not see. “That’s the way your character is described, so going into an audition you are channelling ‘hot, ‘ which isn’t like a person, that’s not who a person is”. “When I look at scripts, I always worry that the director isn’t going to see past me playing Arya Stark or that sort of character. But Joe [Cole] was very sensitive to the fact that I had never done a scene like this before, and it was great to work with someone who was so considerate of that”, the 18-year old actress shared, as published in Vanity Fair.

Williams is not alone. So I knew him quite well, and we got along quite well. We know he’s strong because she needs saving. “I mean, we’re trying to imitate life, and it seems to me a deeply saddening injustice that we are so uncreative and uninterested in developing representations of female life”.

“There was just nothing – these parts don’t come up”, she said. In May, the dismal number of women working in Hollywood prompted a 15-page letter from the ACLU calling on the federal government to investigate the industry as a whole for discriminatory hiring practices.