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It’s old video from 2022.
Maisie Williams is one of the biggest actors in the world today. One of the breakout stars of Game of Thrones, Maisie hasn’t known a normal life since she was 11 years old when she was cast in the biggest tv show in the world.
George R.R. Martin is teasing a project with Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams.
The author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the fantasy novel that inspired the HBO drama series created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, hinted he was working with Williams on something.
“We also got together with Maisie Williams for pizza and pasta, and talked about — well, no, better not get into that, do not want to jinx it,” Martin wrote in his blog as he recounted his travels in London. “But it could be so much fun.”
Martin didn’t specify what the project with Williams was about or whether it involved a Game of Thrones sequel. Williams played Arya Stark throughout the show’s eight-season run on HBO.
HBO head Casey Bloys commented earlier in the day on how it to work with Martin on the multiple projects set in the Game of Thrones universe.
“He’s very important to me, to us,” Bloys told reporters on Tuesday. “But when we put shows together, it’s like putting a marriage together. Marriages can be difficult, especially when Ryan Condal is making creative decisions and adapting work. It can be fraught. Any marriage can get rocky. I would prefer everybody get along, of course. But with the creative process, we are always going to have bumps. That’s to be expected.”
HBO has renewed House of the Dragon for a third season. The premium cable network also has a new prequel in the works titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which includes among its cast Peter Claffey as Dunk, Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg, Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen, Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen, Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle, Daniel Ings as Ser Lyonel Baratheon and Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen.
Bloys also revealed that a Jon Snow sequel starring Kit Harington is no longer being developed but didn’t give up hope about possibly giving it another shot in the future.
Source: Deadline
Maisie Williams and boyfriend Reuben Selby have ended their relationship after five years of dating.
The “Game of Thrones” star announced her breakup with the fashion creative with an Instagram story shared Thursday. The split marked “the end of an era,” she said.
“Since we met 5 years ago, our connection always extended deeply into our shared, and separate, creative careers … and it will continue to do so,” Williams wrote. “This decision is something we are so grateful for as we can protect the magic, that we can’t help but emit, whenever we put our brains together.”
Williams and Selby, both 25, didn’t keep their relationship a secret from the public. The now-former couple were frequently spotted at Paris Fashion Week in matching outfits, graced magazine covers and collaborated on climate change initiatives.
For Selby, relationships may come and go, but fashion stays. On Friday, he commemorated his relationship with the Emmy nominee by sharing a photo of them in matching beige outfits for the Christian Dior runway in 2020.
“Please don’t be sad for us — just appreciate the fits,” he captioned the post.
Williams, known for portraying Arya Stark on “Game of Thrones,” asked fans on Thursday to respect her privacy amid the breakup.
“P.S. no further questions, please,” she wrote. “We must protect our children (my dog).”
Source: Los Angeles Times
The Bristolian actress opens up about her ambassador role and relying on charities to provide food during her childhood
Game of Thrones star, Maisie Williams has shared the “fear and isolation” she once felt due to going hungry before her breakout role. The Bristol-born actress has become an ambassador for the MAZI project, a Bedminster community interest company (CIC) distributing meals to disadvantaged young people across the city.
A study published by Centrepoint suggests just under a third, 30%, of young people, aged between 18-25, “often go without food for a whole day due to lack of money”. Twenty-five-year-old Maisie explained how she had not publicly spoken about this time during her upbringing, when she and her family were fleeing domestic violence. They left their family home with nothing. Maisie later relied on the support of Barnardos charity.
Ms Williams said: “Food holds so much power. So, when you don’t have it, don’t have enough of it, or don’t experience the enrichment that food brings, you are faced with not only hunger but also detachment, fear and isolation. I’ve been there. I’ve felt this. I understand the impact it has on your self-worth.
“I’ve never talked publicly about this before, but I had a lot of support from Barnardos when I was growing up. They helped me to learn and connect with thoughts and emotions that I’d suppressed for so long. It had an incredible transformational impact on me. My fear dissipated; my sense of self-started rising. I took a dance class shortly after, which led to auditions, my role in Game of Thrones and everything else that’s come since. The impact that a little nurture, time and care can have on young people is genuinely life-changing. That’s what The MAZI Project is providing for the young people in Bristol that they help and that’s why I wanted to get involved.”
The MAZI project is currently supporting hundreds of care leavers, young people recovering from homelessness and young asylum seekers living in supported accommodation.
Speaking of her new role at the MAZI Project, Maisie added: “I have been inspired to talk publicly and be more open about my past after being introduced to The MAZI Project, who work with an increasing number of 16–25-year-olds, many of them in care or refugees, and develop and deliver brilliant, inspiring and healthy meal kits to their doorsteps. This simple act has such a powerful impact.
Ms Williams said: “Food holds so much power. So, when you don’t have it, don’t have enough of it, or don’t experience the enrichment that food brings, you are faced with not only hunger but also detachment, fear and isolation. I’ve been there. I’ve felt this. I understand the impact it has on your self-worth.
“I’ve never talked publicly about this before, but I had a lot of support from Barnardos when I was growing up. They helped me to learn and connect with thoughts and emotions that I’d suppressed for so long. It had an incredible transformational impact on me. My fear dissipated; my sense of self-started rising. I took a dance class shortly after, which led to auditions, my role in Game of Thrones and everything else that’s come since. The impact that a little nurture, time and care can have on young people is genuinely life-changing. That’s what The MAZI Project is providing for the young people in Bristol that they help and that’s why I wanted to get involved.”
The MAZI project is currently supporting hundreds of care leavers, young people recovering from homelessness and young asylum seekers living in supported accommodation.
Speaking of her new role at the MAZI Project, Maisie added: “I have been inspired to talk publicly and be more open about my past after being introduced to The MAZI Project, who work with an increasing number of 16–25-year-olds, many of them in care or refugees, and develop and deliver brilliant, inspiring and healthy meal kits to their doorsteps. This simple act has such a powerful impact.
The CIC’s founder, Melanie Vaxevanakis estimates 8,800 meals have been packed by her team since it launched during lockdown in 2020. She also revealed to Bristol World how the project has overseen a sizeable rise in referrals since September – with this number expected to rise through the Christmas period.
Mel comments “We’ve seen a 40% increase in referrals to The MAZI Project in the last two months. The growth in referrals for our meal kits, which we deliver weekly to Bristol’s hungry youth, shows the issue of food insecurity is increasing every day. For asylum seekers, care leavers and Bristol’s homeless youth, the issue requires urgent action. For many, Christmas is a time of joy, time with family and friends but for the young people we help, Christmas is the loneliest time of the year. Their sense of isolation increases exponentially, which impacts our ability to empower them into creating a better future for themselves and their community”.
If you are, or know, a young person based in Bristol who is facing food insecurity and might benefit from a MAZI Project meal kit, email hello@themaziproject.com
Source: Bristol World
With the poor performance of 2020’s The New Mutants plus Disney’s acquisition of Fox, Maisie Williams may have understandably assumed her chance to play any kind of Marvel superhero had come and gone. But according to our trusted and proven source, the Game of Thrones alum has received a welcome surprise. Maisie Williams is talking to Marvel about playing Vivian, the daughter of Paul Bettany’s Vision.
As for what film and/or show Williams is negotiating to appear in, our source wasn’t able to tell us. However one of the most obvious guesses would be the unofficial but almost certainly planned Young Avengers project. As Marvel Comics fans have been quick to point out in every instance, characters who have either appeared in the Young Avengers comic or who — as teen superheroes — would be a perfect fit have been popping up all over the Marvel Cinematic Universe; particularly in the related Disney+ series like WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Hawkeye, and most recently Ms. Marvel. You can add to that list America Chavez from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Cassie Lang from the Ant-Man films. Maisie Williams as the daughter of Vision would be a natural addition.
Vivian, or Viv as she’s usually called, was introduced along with her brother Vin and her mother Virginia in 2016’s Vision #1 by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta. The series — often credited as one of the inspirations for WandaVision — follows the eponymous synthezoid as he builds his own family of synthezoids and tries to live a “normal” suburban life. Something like the Vision comic could be what Marvel has in mind to introduce Maisie Williams as the daughter of Vision.
The last time we saw the “real” reactivated Vision, it was in the WandaVision finale when he had broken free from S.W.O.R.D.’s control and left Westview behind. After his confrontation with the Wanda-created Vision, the revived synthezoid seemed unsure about exactly what/who he was. Confused and without his old Avengers buddies for help, might not the bone-white Vision consider building his own family like his counterpart in the 2016 comic? It’s only speculation, but you have to admit — it would be a decent way to introduce Maisie Williams as Vision’s daughter.
In the comics, Viv has never been an official member of the Young Avengers, she was one of the young heroes to join Marvel’s revived Champions series. Originally a gathering of Marvel heroes in the seventies seemingly thrown together by having names pulled out of a hat — e.g. Hercules, Iceman, Ghost Rider, Black Widow — the team was resuscitated in 2016 as a teen team. with members like Ms. Marvel, the Miles Morales Spider-Man, the Amadeus Cho Hulk, etc. Maisie Williams’ future character of Viv, daughter of Vision, was there from the beginning as well.
Most recently, Williams played model and punk rock fashion pioneer Jordan Mooney in FX on Hulu’s biopic mini-series Pistols. Before Maisie Williams plays the daughter of Vision, she has a couple of other projects lined up. Per Variety, in the upcoming Apple TV+ series The New Look she’ll play World War II French Resistance fighter Catherine Dior. She’ll also be joining Freddie Highmore in the comedy Sinners V. Saints based on the real-life “Manacled Mormon” sex scandal.
Source: Giant Freakin Robot
HBO is reportedly in the early stages of developing a live-action Game of Thrones spin-off series based on Kit Harington’s Jon Snow
Maisie Williams is just as hyped as Game of Thrones fans are that Kit Harington’s Jon Snow may soon be back on screen in his own series.
“Everything surrounding the story [of GOT] is very exciting,” Williams told PEOPLE exclusively this week while attending the Cannes Lions Festival with Spotify.
“We had such a rich show, and there’s still so much story to tell,” continued the 25-year-old actress, who played Snow’s sibling Arya Stark throughout all eight seasons of the series.
“I think it’s really exciting, and I think that Kit is such a phenomenal actor. Him playing Jon Snow was just like a cultural reset,” added Williams, who recently launched the podcast Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams, which is available on Spotify. “I think everything that he touches is magic, and I’m excited to see what it’s going to be.”
Since Thrones concluded, Harington has appeared in a slew of screen projects, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals and Amazon Studios’ Modern Love. He also appeared on stage in the National Theater’s live production of Henry V.
Earlier this month, The Hollywood Reporter shared that HBO is in the early stages of developing the live-action GOT spin-off based on Snow.
Harington, 35, is attached to reprise the iconic role — which earned him two Emmy nominations — if the project move forward to a series, per THR.
In GOT’s final season, Snow learned he was a potential heir to the Iron Throne before he was exiled from Westeros and began a new journey elsewhere.
Should a Snow-centered series come to fruition, Williams could technically reprise her role of Arya — but would she be open to starring in her own sequel series?
“It’s obviously a very exciting prospect,” Williams told PEOPLE, “so never say never.”
As far as potential storylines that an Arya-focused spin-off could mine, Williams said she has yet “to really discover” what she’d like to see next — but diehard viewers are giving her plenty of ideas.
“I’m still learning so much from fans that I meet … and they’re always recounting the parts of the show that they love, the parts of the show that were meaningful for them and the parts of Arya’s journey that were meaningful for them,” Williams shared. “I feel like I’m learning it all for the first time in a way right now.”
“So I’m still kind of piecing together what I think it should be, what I think would make people happy, and what I think would be fulfilling as well, as an actor, to do some kind of transition,” she added. “We can’t just do the same thing that we did — it’s got to be new. But what are the parts that we would want to take with us and what are the parts that we would do differently? So I think I’m still kind of discovering that.”
Source: People
April 27, 2021
We’re proud to announce actress Maisie Williams as our new global ambassador for climate and nature! The world is our shared home and together, we can help protect it and put nature on the road to recovery.
Wallace will take the lead as guitarist Steve Jones.
Since playing with the music of The Beatles in his 2019 movie Yesterday, director Danny Boyle has set his sights on bringing another English band to the screen: the Sex Pistols.
Boyle will executive produce and direct Pistol, an upcoming six-episode limited series for FX about Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, based on Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol.
FX has already found actors for the Sex Pistols. Toby Wallace (Babyteeth) will portray Jones; Anson Boon (Blackbird) will play singer John Lydon; Louis Patridge (Enola Holmes) will play bassist Sid Vicious; Jacob Slater will play drummer Paul Cook; Fabien Frankel (The Serpent) will play bass guitarist Glen Matlock; and Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls) will play Wally Nightingale, who founded the band The Strand with Cook and Jones that would eventually become the Sex Pistols.
Game of Thrones and The New Mutants star Maisie Williams will play Pamela Rooke, a.k.a. punk icon Jordan. The main cast will also include Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling) as Chrissie Hynde and Emma Appleton (The Witcher) as Nancy Spungen.
Pistol promises to take viewers through West London’s council estates and Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s notorious Kings Road SEX shop, while tackling the international controversy that came with the release of the album Never Mind the Bollocks.
“Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent,” Boyle said in a statement. “This is the moment that British society and culture changed forever. It is the detonation point for British street culture…where ordinary young people had the stage and vented their fury and their fashion…and everyone had to watch & listen…and everyone feared them or followed them. The Sex Pistols. At its center was a young charming illiterate kleptomaniac—a hero for the times—Steve Jones, who became in his own words, the 94th greatest guitarist of all time. This is how he got there.”
The series was created by executive producer Craig Pearce and is written Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
