Sophie Turner reveals her ‘unwashed’ hair ‘disgusting’ secret during Game of Thrones filming

Sophie Turner said that towards Game of Thrones season 5, she was asked to not wash her hair and 'it was really disgusting' for her.


Devdiscourse News Desk | Los Angeles | Updated: 19-01-2019 15:25 IST | Created: 19-01-2019 14:26 IST
Sophie Turner reveals her ‘unwashed’ hair ‘disgusting’ secret during Game of Thrones filming
Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner believes that out of all her co-stars, Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow, has the best hair. (Image Credit: Flickr)

Sometimes some secrets are not so secretive! Sophie Turner may be tight-lipped when it comes to the plot of Game of Thrones Season 8, but it looks like her hair alongside her look with her ‘unwashed’ hair could be the real spoiler culprit. In her recent interview with InStyle magazine, the beautiful 22-year old actress has thrown much of the reflection of her character development through Game of Thrones.

Sophie Turner, who was also seen in 2016’s superhit movie X-Men: Apocalypse, reveals during her recent interview that she was instructed to not wash her hair in order to maintain her look for Game of Thrones show. The beautiful actress, who plays Sansa Stark on the hit HBO series, said from Game of Thrones season 5 onwards she was forced to live with ‘really disgusting’ hair. “For the first few seasons, I was allowed to wash my hair because I was an aristocratic young girl. Towards season 5, they started asking me to not wash my hair and it was really disgusting,” she told InStyle.

During the shooting of Game of Thrones Season 8, she somehow manages to wear a wig and accordingly she is able to wash her hair whenever she wants. But for a couple of years, what the young actress emphasized, she was living with pretty greasy hair. She also termed her experience ‘really itchy’ and ‘disgusting’.

“(It was) really itchy! Also, we would have the snow machines going so we would have little snow paper particles that would get stuck in the grease. It was disgusting,” Sophie Turner opined.

 Barely Lethal actress agreed that just like her character Sansa in Game of Thrones, her hair also had its own journey on the show. “The first few episodes she was a Northerner in Winterfell and took after her mother with a simple braid down the back. Then when she went to King’s Landing it was a big, decadent halo that was very much like what (Cersei Lannister) wore. With Littlefinger, she dyes her hair black and wears all black. Then she goes back to Winterfell and returns to her mother’s hair. She created her own identity in season 7 and that kind of runs through to season 8. She’s chosen how she wants her hair to be, and she’s finally the leader and influencer instead of being influenced by everyone else,” Turner added.

The actor believes that out of all her co-stars, Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow, has the best hair. “He probably takes the most care of his hair out of like everyone on the show I know. He’s obsessed. Before red carpets, you would always see him scrunching the ends of his curls to make sure they’re perfect. We all take the piss out on him for that,” she boldly spoken out.

HBO recently revealed that Game of Thrones Season 8 (the final Season) will premiere on April 14, 2019.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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