Sophie Turner admits there should be trigger warnings for her infamous Game of Thrones rape scene: ‘But we were doing a lot of justice to women’

In the interview with Flaunt Magazine, Turner claimed that men around her still get shocked at how rampant sexual assault or sexual misconduct is because “we don’t talk about it enough — we shy away from it.” “I think if Game of Thrones came out today, we’d definitely put some trigger warnings on there,” she admitted.

“But I’m really proud to have been a part of Game of Thrones, where they didn’t shy away from showing atrocities that happened to women back then. I feel proud to have been part of the conversation,” she added. The wedding rape scene in question got even more outrage because it wasn’t a part of the source material, George RR Martin’s books.

Even back in 2015, Turner had defended the scene at the Comic-Con. “The one thing that Sansa still is, despite what happened to her, is strong. She’s not to blame for that… Sansa, yes, has gone through a lot, but she’s developed some skills from Cersei and Margaery and others, and she’s still just as strong. She could have fought back (in the wedding night scene). But she didn’t. She does her scheming in her mind rather than outwardly,” said Turner.

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She’ll be next seen reuniting with Kit Harington, who played her half-brother Jon Snow, in Game of Thrones for Natasha Kermani’s gothic horror film The Dreadful. Turner’s Sansa Stark was the daughter of Ned Stark, who was assumed to have fathered Jon Snow outside his marriage. “I did a movie last year which I’m really excited about with my old but very good friend Kit Harington, who played my brother on Game of Thrones,” she had told People, adding, “We’re doing a Gothic horror, but we play lovers. Sorry guys, it’s really weird for all of us.”