Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams wants to take to director's chair to create strong female roles
Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams wants to swap acting for the director’s chair so she can create the strong female roles she believes modern cinema lacks.
Williams, 18, who plays Arya Stark in the HBO series, said: “I’d love to direct. There’s not many female directors and I’d love to portray women the way they should be, as people, not as girlfriends or pawns in a game to make the male character look good.
The Falling Screening
“You look at all the massive blockbusters out there — they’re all male leads. There are so many female characters that need to be written still.”
As well as Game Of Thrones, Williams is starring in The Falling, a film about a mysterious fainting epidemic at a strict English girls’ school in the Sixties. Directed by Carol Morley, it has an almost entirely female cast, but Williams does not want that to be the focus.
She said: “People keep saying ‘I’ve heard that everyone on set was a woman, that there was a female director and a female this’ and I’m like, so what?
“I hope that in the future when I direct it isn’t so much of a surprise and people respect that women can do this just as well.”
