- VULTURE: How do you get through scenes like that, such as Joffrey's torture of Sansa at court and the near rape during the riot? How do you handle it?
- SOPHIE: The way I stop myself from going into a depressed stage during those scenes is that the other actors and the crew all try to keep me happy. I mean, I'm happy to do those scenes anyway — and I'm happy to do stunts — but the other actors are so nice and lovely, especially Jack [Gleeson, who plays Joffrey] and Peter [Dinklage, who plays Tyrion]. Like in season one, when I had to beg for mercy for my father? That's when Conleth [Hill, who plays Varys the Spider] decided to pull a few faces at me, to distract me. And Peter, every time I work with him, I can't help but be inspired and think, Wow, what a great actor. He's totally down-to-earth, too. We talk in between scenes about anything and everything, like school, or his daughter. He knew that crossbow scene was quite difficult for me, so he just tried to make it as lighthearted as possible.
