Game of Thrones: Sophie Turner reveals how she wanted to end season eight

Actor felt 'very passionately' about Sansa's ending

Spoilers: the story below contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season eight.

Sophie Turner has revealed how she would have wanted Game of Thrones to end – and it would have involved giving her character a different fate.

The actor played Sansa Stark throughout the show’s eight seasons, up until the fantasy drama’s conclusion in May this year.

In Game of Thrones‘s finale, “The Iron Throne”, Sansa is crowned Queen of the North, having decided to remain independent from the Seven Kingdoms.

While satisfied with this conclusion, Turner would have written Sansa’s ending in a slightly different way – and she would have also liked to see things play out differently for Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey).

“I thought Arya would kill Cersei,” Turner told The Wrap.

“And I would like to have seen Sansa and Cersei reunited, or Arya and Cersei.

“But there were so many ways the story could have turned out. I felt very passionately about the ending for Sansa, and I was very happy with the ending that turned out for her.”

Cersei does die in the final season of Game of Thrones, but not by Arya's hand. Instead, she's crushed, along with Jaime Lannister, in the collapsing King's Landing.

As for Arya, she ends up exploring uncharted territory west of Westeros.