Jessica Chastain for The Cut, Sophie, now 26, reflected on coping with the adult subject matter at such a young age."The subject matter was so heavy that I just developed a coping mechanism of just having the most fun in between takes, so I wouldn't get traumatized," she said. "I'm sure I'll exhibit some symptoms of trauma down the road."The fact that Sophie was so young during her "GOT" run may have been beneficial in a way. "At that age, I don't think I could comprehend a lot of the scene matter," she said. "And the first few years, I had my mom with me because she was chaperoning me, so she would be very helpful and give me snacks."For a long time, Sophie was only really known in the public eye as her "Game of Thrones" character, which she played from 2011 to 2019.
Now, though, the soon-to-be-mom-of-two feels like she's coming into her own."For ten years, I felt like I needed to be the person that everyone else saw because I was growing up and I didn't know anything else.
Other than the character that I was playing in 'Game of Thrones' and then other people's perceptions of me, I didn't have time to figure out who I was as a person," she said. "And so when 'Game of Thrones' ended, I started developing, like, a personal life and then finally a taste for what I actually wanted to do in my work and things like that.
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