Amid a global pandemic with stay home directives, Williams and a few of her friends had decided to make the city of Paris their temporary home. “When the borders opened, we decided to come and quarantine here for a while because we love it here, and because none of us have jobs,” Williams jests.
Listening to her speak about her life experiences is rather surreal. After all, Williams is a 22-year-old young woman who grew up in the public eye. She started to act when she was 12 but was really pushed into the glare of the spotlight at 14 when HBO’s “Game of Thrones” premiered. In the eight years that it ran, the television series became an international phenomenon, and turned its characters into pop culture icons. And Maisie Williams, who played the gutsy youngest daughter of the House of Stark, was no exception.
As a teenager, Williams found herself having to forge her image and develop her identity under intense public scrutiny. “Socially, maybe I found it quite hard,” says the actress who spent puberty in castle sets and dodging enemies on horseback. “But I never really knew anything different [from this].”
This story is from the September 2020 edition of T Singapore: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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