Sophie Turner, the lovely actress who plays the beleaguered Sansa Stark on HBO's "Game of Thrones," recently won the plum part of Jean Grey in the upcoming "X-Men: Apocalypse." With her "X-Men" debut still a good ways off, I'm sure her focus is squarely on the upcoming fifth season of "Game of Thrones," but she recently took some time to discuss her new role with IGN.
Turner supposes that one of the reasons she was cast as Jean is due to her character's "Dark Sansa" turn at the end of Season 4 of "Game of Thrones."
"I think maybe one of the reasons that they chose me for [Jean] is because they saw the dark side of Sansa," Turner surmised. "Maybe they're thinking, 'Oh, Phoenix, Jean Grey.' I definitely see a lot of parallels in there... [Jean] struggles with her power... and not being accepted in the human world. I think in terms of [Game of Thrones], that's kind of the way Sansa felt in that she really wanted to be a normal princess/queen and live a normal life...and she doesn't, because of all this havoc happens. I think Jean, in a way, feels that."
As Turner continues on, she states that she wants to bring something different to the character than her predecessor, Famke Janssen.
"I think Famke played Jean incredibly well, but also, I'm playing a younger version of her," Turner said. "I want to emulate Famke in a sense, because she has to seem like the Jean in the first two movies, but I'm also going to put my own twist on her. I think I'm also going to take inspiration from the comics. I don't know, we'll see."
That all sounds well and good, but I'm wondering if they will ever call Jean "Marvel Girl" (the superhero moniker she used from 1963 to 1976) again? Now would be the perfect time to do it if they were ever going to.
Either way, "X-Men: Apocalypse" opens in theaters May 27, 2016, and "Game of Thrones" Season 5 premieres on April 12, 2015.
