Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner is defending a controversial sexual assault scene that was an important part of her character's storyline arc on the HBO series. In an interview with Flaunt, Turner admitted that some of the scenes she previously filmed for the series were out of her emotional grasp.

I did feel—and still do—that Game Of Thrones shone a light on things that many people were like ‘Oh god, you can’t show that kind of thing’—and I understand it can be triggering—I totally understand that point of view,

Sophie Turner was selected as one of the producers for the horror film when she nominated Kit Harington as her co-star, which he warned would be 'really weird'.