During a chat with /Film, Faye Marsay was asked if she felt more pressure joining Game of Thrones playing The Waif during the height of its popularity or joining a big franchise like Star Wars, as the character of Vel Sartha in Andor.
“Yes, that small show, yeah,” Marsay joked about Game of Thrones. “With Game of Thrones, I don’t know what it was about that, I just remained cool, because it was something that was so much bigger than me. What I was being asked to do was the thing that I like doing. If you minimize your role down, and you don’t worry about all the other sort of noise around it, you just kind of concentrate on what you’re being asked to do, which is quite… It’s not simple, but what my job is, is to say somebody else’s words convincingly and create a character that means something to the script, to the way the writer wrote it, and to the people who are watching it.”
She continued, “If you take all the noise out of it, I found Game of Thrones a much easier job than one would think. Given that, at the time, it was just blowing up, and given the storyline I had with the character, with Maisie [Williams], who was the most loved character pretty much on the show at that point, and I acted horrible to. So that was hard. But I think I probably felt more pressure starting a new huge mammoth Star Wars TV thing in which that I was going to be one of the sort of main-ish roles. Did I answer that correctly?”
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