Sophie Turner has admitted the impending conclusion to 'Game of Thrones' has made her feel "born again".
Sophie Turner
The 21-year-old actress - who plays Sansa Stark in HBO's epic adaptation of George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' fantasy novels - has hinted she feels glad her time on the programme is coming to an end, so she can be free to move on with other projects.
She told Variety: "I feel this sense that everything is over 'Game of Thrones'-wise. I have nothing to lose right now, because I don't have 'Game of Thrones' anymore.
"I'm kind of born again, because I'm at a different stage of my career now - not necessarily at a higher level, I just find myself at a different version of my career. So I'm going to try my hand at everything."
The actress has grown up on the set, having been just 14 when she filmed the first season, and though she put all the stars on "pedestals", she now can't come to terms with not working with her colleagues again.
Sophie added: "My standards have definitely been raised. It's a blessing and a curse, 'Game of Thrones being my first job and working with such incredible scripts and such incredible veteran actors, working with the best crew.
"It makes you a bit of a snob, I think. And because it was my first job, the actors on 'Game of Thrones' are the people I learned to act from.
"I learned to act watching Lena and Peter and Maisie [Williams] and Kit [Harington] and all of these different people. I put them all on such pedestals. The thought of not working with them is almost excruciating to me. They've been my growing up."
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