Why ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Sophie Turner Thought She Got Cursed by a Fan
Sansa Stark actress gets big laugh at Comic-Con
Joe Otterson | July 22, 2016 @ 5:34 PM
Last Updated: July 22, 2016 @ 5:54 PM
(Spoiler alert: Please do not keep reading if you are not caught up on “Game of Thrones”)
“Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner shared a funny fan encounter at San Diego Comic-Con International on Friday, in which the British actress admitted that she was afraid a fan had wanted to put some kind of spell on her.
Turner said after “Battle of the Bastards” aired, a woman approached her and said the words Sansa speaks to Ramsay (Iwan Rheon) just before he dies: “Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear.”
Turner said that she forgot the line came from the show. “I thought she was like, cursing me or something,” Turner told the Hall H crowd to a big laugh.
Turner also fielded a question about whether or not Jon Snow is capable of actually ruling as King of the North. “I don’t think she believes Jon is capable of running Winterfell and the north. She doesn’t think he has the intellect, the knowledge, the experience that she has, and I concur,” she said with a laugh.
Then things got a little awkward when a fan raised the possibility that, since we now know Jon and Sansa are not really brother and sister, they could become romantically involved. “Jon likes redheads, but Jon and Sansa have grown up together, they’re basically siblings,” Turner replied.
Also on the panel, Kristian Nairn, known to fans forever as Hodor, got emotional at the outpouring of tributes after his character met a grisly demise when he had to “hold the door” for Bran and Meera.
“I did not expect it to be so crazy,” Nairn said. “I’m really, really flattered. It’s blown my mind.” He revealed that he had no idea how much of an impact Hodor’s death would have. “I was in a hotel in L.A. the other day and all their doorstops said ‘Hodor’ on them.”
“Game of Thrones” Season 7 will return in the summer of 2017.
Comic-Con 2016: Top Party Pics, From Justin Timberlake on a Boat to Hodor's 'Rave of Thrones' DJ Set (Updating Photos)
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Justin Timberlake is arguably the biggest global star at the Con. JT is so famous that he and co-star Anna Kendrick got to keep their shoes on while plugging "Trolls" on the IMDb yacht.
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Team "Trolls" snapping a selfie in the Convention Hall.
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From the EW party to Samsung's setup, the Hard Rock was the place to be. Cara Delevingne (left, promoting "Valerian") and "Suicide Squad" castmates Margot Robbie and Will Smith were three of the huge names that added the Samsung Experience to their Saturday schedules, sampling the Gear VR.
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Svelte Seth Rogen playing Skee Ball with Nikki Novak in Fandango's playroom.
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"The Walking Dead" cast met Ian, a junior superfan aboard the IMDb yacht. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Norman Reedus, Andrew Lincoln, and Steven Yeun played "Pokemon Go," rattled off trivia, and tried on Captain's hats with the young Make-A-Wish recipient.
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"Grimm" star Bree Turner brought a layer of "loud" over "loud" at the bright and splashy entrance to the crown jewel of Comic-Con parties -- Saturday night's Entertainment Weekly bash at Float at the Hard Rock.
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Inside, this clique had all the gravity: Walton Goggins, Michael Chiklis, and Danny McBride. Goggins, who first broke out next to Chiklis on "The Shield," and the teflon McBride have been on a full throttle promo tour for HBO's "Vice Principals."
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A superhero's view of the Entertainment Weekly bash.
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All-time box office king James Cameron (#1 and #2) with Chiklis, who despite the Emmy and Golden Globe wins for TV, has not had a robust feature career beyond the "Fantastic Four" franchise.
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Phonetic friends: NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt and EW Editor-in-Chief Henry Goldblatt.
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At NBC's own Comic-Con party at the Andaz, Sullivan Stapleton ("Blindspot") and the always-working Abigail Spencer ("Timeless") spent time with the boss.
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DJ Michelle Pesce had a super-powered schedule, spinning both MTV's Fandom Awards and the EW bash. At EW, Drake ("Jumpman," "Child's Play") and his rumored girlfriend's "B--ch Better Have My Money" were the artists that filled the floor.
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How cool is this? "The walking hockey jersey," Kevin Smith, hosted IMDb's interview yacht. Here, he chopped it up with "The Walking Dead" stars Cliff Curtis and Kim Dickens.
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Before hosting the bash of the weekend, EW's Jess Cagle (center) planted a flag at the brand's Sirius radio channel studio daily live broadcasts. John Stamos and Taylor Lautner are both headed for "Scream Queens" Season 2.
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Hannah Marks, writer Max Landis and Elijah Wood are working on the BBC America comedic thriller "Dirk Gently," an adaptation of a popular series of novels.
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A year to the day before "Valerian" opens, Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan (in matching shoes) snuck off to the Wired Cafe on Thursday, Hollywood's hidewaway from convention riff-raff. At left, director Luc Besson and, at right, Wired host-publisher Kim Kelleher.
Thursday night's hot party was Nylon at Omnia, the San Diego outpost of the Vegas hotspot home to Calvin Harris, Chuckie and other big DJs. At Comic-Con, "Game of Thrones" actor Kristian Nairn (Hodor) spun the party, rebranding his set as "Rave of Thrones."
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Most were not on the list: Thursday night's Nylon party.
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