On last Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, Arya and Gendry...wait. You have seen the most recent episode of Game of Thrones right? I mean, it's one of the most popular TV shows in the world, which means if you log on to social media or check an entertainment news site, you're bound to find "spoilers" the second after it airs. Much like Westeros, the internet is not safe. I strongly recommend quitting your job, dumping your lover and telling your family to f*** off, so you can watch every episode of this TV show on time. Get your priorities straight.

Anyway, Arya and Gendry boned. Some people thought that was pretty cool. Others were a bit uncomfortable. After all, when Maisie Williams first appeared on Game of Thrones, she was ten years old. One decade later, she's blossomed into a young woman, but many fans still see her as a child. On Twitter, HBO reminded viewers that the character is 18, and therefore fully capable of making her own decisions. Whom to bone, when to bone, where to bone - that's her business. A girl has desires!

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Joe Dempsie, who plays Gendry, admitted that shooting the steamy scene was a little awkward, since he's ten years older than Maisie. "It’s obviously slightly strange for me because I’ve known Maisie since she was 11, 12 years old," he told Entertainment Weekly . "At the same time, I don’t want to be patronizing toward Maisie — she’s a 20-year-old woman. So we just had a lot of fun with it."

As for Maisie, she told the publication: "I got to the read-through and I’m reading the scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym! David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] were like: ‘You can show as much or as little as you want. So I kept myself pretty private. I don’t think it’s important for Arya to flash. This beat isn’t really about that. And everybody else has already done it on the show, so…"

She added: "No one wants to make you feel uncomfortable, which kind of makes you feel more uncomfortable, because no one wants to look at anything that they shouldn’t look at, which in turn makes you feel like you look awful!"

Watch Sophie Turner's hilarious reaction to Maisie William's sex scene

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On Instagram, Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark, posted the perfect response to the big scene, which aired on Easter weekend. "In honor of Easter, I guess Game of Thrones wanted to have a little storyline of a little Easter bunny hop, hop, hoppin’ into that p*ssaayyyyyy," Sophie said to her Instagram followers, before taking a sip of wine. "And that's the tea."

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Not to be outdone, Maisie shared a hilarious response to fans' uncomfortable reactions. "if u feel uncomfortable just know that my mother and my step dad and my 2 sisters and my 4 brothers have all probably watched this too," the actress tweeted, adding, "ahahakillmeehehe."

They grow up so fast! (Spoiler alert.)

On Game Of Thrones, Arya Stark is many fans' favorite character: a feisty tomboy who makes a "death list" and swears to kill everyone who betrayed her family. After training to become a Faceless Man - an expert assassin who wears people's faces as seamless disguise - she finally has the tools to wreak bloody vengeance.

It's difficult to imagine else playing Arya Stark besides Maisie Williams. When they filmed the first episode of Game of Thrones, Maisie was only twelve years old. Now she's 20. We've seen her grow up on camera, from a child into a young woman, and the actress has totally nailed the character. (Also, it's pretty cool that she can say she spent her teenage years in Westeros.)

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As Game of Thrones became a global phenomenon, its cast members were launched into superstardom. Maisie has a ton of new projects on the horizon, including a starring role as Wolfsbane in the X-Men spin-off film The New Mutants. She's also gained a huge following on social media, with over 7 million followers on Instagram. Arya may be "a girl with no name," but Maisie is one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood.

However, in a new interview with InStyle, Maisie reveals that she almost turned down Game of Thrones, for a bizarre reason. She nearly skipped her audition to go on a field trip to a pig farm. Seriously. Fortunately, she chose dragons over pigs. Maisie went to her audition, and the rest is history. Out of a pool of 300 actresses, she was chosen for the part. It was her first professional role.

Game of Thrones is currently filming its final season, which is sure to be a bloodbath. HBO executives discussed the last six episodes at a panel, and revealed that many cast members will fall to their deaths. Speaking to Instyle, Maisie didn't say if Arya Stark would survive. But she did reflect on the epic fantasy show ending, after being such a huge part of her life:

"The hardest thing about the show ending is that I'll never get to be Arya again. I do wish she shaped me to be more fearless in the industry. Honestly, no matter what else I work on, I'll miss playing her.

"It's just strange as it's everything I've ever known, but also any interview I ever do ends up talking about this show and where it's going and what's going to happen, and this is it – I know what's going to happen."

But if you're hoping Maisie will tell you what happens, a girl doesn't give spoilers. It is known. "I would only ever tell someone a spoiler if I didn't like them," joked the actress. "I should use it as ammunition."

And when they finish filming, maybe she'll finally go on that field trip to the pig farm. Fear of missing out, and all that.

With everyone’s favourite fantasy show, Game of Thrones, set to end in 2019, fans have long been speculating as to how writers are going to see out the eighth and final season. Who's going to die? Who will finally claim the Iron Throne? Are those leaked spoilers actually anything to be believed? 

And while some shows write multiple endings so that even their cast are kept guessing, it seems like the makers of GOT aren’t going down that route. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Maisie Williams - or Arya Stark as she is probably better known - revealed that she knows everything, including the fate of all of our favourite characters. Excitingly, it looks like it’s shaping up to be ah-mazing.

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While 20-year-old actress wouldn’t reveal what’s actually going to happen - which we’re kind of glad about, but equally grrrrrr, PLEASE - she did say that even she didn’t see it coming: "It’s just surreal to be honest. Like being with this show for so long and then it also having the following that it does, it’s just everyone is waiting for this moment and then you read it and it’s incredible"

Looking super smug about her insider knowledge, Maise revealed that she was actually in bed when she read the script for the first time and joked that she had to lie down afterwards. Adorably though, Williams did reveal that she had told one person exactly what happens - her mom. Admitting that she had been told by bosses not to pass any details on, she ‘fessed up that she’d already sent them to her to read too. Let's hope the producers weren't watching! But who can blame her, really? Most of us can’t keep a secret either.

Maisie did dish the dirt on quite how hectic filming the hit TV show was, divulging that she had to return to filming early because there was so much to get done, adding that it was a “mammoth” job to shoot this season. When asked by Kimmel if that meant she was in all of the episodes, she coyly teased that “no, some of the episodes take a really long time to shoot.”  Uh, did Maisie just accidentally slip us a spoiler or is she just playing our bluff!?

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While the exact date on which GOT will return hasn't been revealed yet, makers HBO have already said that it will start later than previous years as the eighth season will have just six episodes, less than any of its predecessors. Fear not though, because it doesn’t look like we should be missing out on any action. Casey Bloys, HBO’s programming president, has promised us that it will be worthy of “six one-hour movies” and said that what the team are doing is "monumental”.

So, spoiler or no spoiler, it looks like us fans are just going to have to sit tight and wait for the big reveal. But with filming underway and the climax clearly all decided, it looks like the end really is near - and we cannot wait. 

The final season of Game of Thrones was probably the one the divided opinion the most since the series premiered. Of course, with so many characters and so many dangling plot threads, it was always going to be impossible to please everyone. But that doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of fans out there who wish that things had turned out differently.

Even some members of the main cast have had their misgivings about the end of the show, including Arya Stark's actress Masie Williams, who has revealed that she has one regret from the show's final season.

Watch the scene where Arya Stark enacts her revenge on House Frey:

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In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Masie stated: "I just wanted to be on set with Lena again, she’s good fun, and I wanted Arya to kill Cersei even if it means [Arya] dies too. Even up to the point when Cersei’s with Jaime I thought [while reading the script], ‘He’s going to whip off his face [and reveal its Arya]’ and they’re both going to die. I thought that’s what Arya’s drive has been."

However, she conceded that she felt it was important for Arya's character arc for her to be able to let go of her all-consuming vengeance, stating: "The Hound says, ‘You want to be like me? You want to live your life like me?’ When The Hound asks her if she has another option, all of a sudden there are so many more things in [Arya’s] life that she can live for, that she can do. It was a shock for me because that wasn’t how I envisioned her arc going this year. Then I realized there were other things I could play, bringing Arya back to being a 16-year-old again."

Check out the amazing scene where Arya defeats the Night's King:

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Lena herself seemed to want the same situation to play out, stating: "I lived that fantasy until I read the script. There were chunky scenes and it was nothing that I had dreamt about. It was a bit of come down and you have to accept that it wasn’t to be. There is something poetic about the way it all happens in the end with her and Jaime."

However, Masie isn't the only one wishing that things had panned out differently. Check out this article we penned about the one thing that Emilia Clarke wanted to see in season eight.

When a series goes on long enough, it's strange to look back and see how far the cast has come over the years. The best example of this is the Harry Potter films, in which we saw Ron, Hermione, and Harry having adventures from the age of 11 all the way to their late teens. Seeing child actors age that way fosters a strong connection between the audience and the characters, giving us even more reason to care. The same goes for Game of Thrones. The hit HBO show started back in 2011, and in the following seven years we have seen the younger members of the cast age quite a bit. Seeing how adorable Arya looked in the first episode is one thing, but wait until you compare Bran to his younger self - the difference is monumental. You can see a similar transformation take place with Sansa Stark, Bran and Arya's older sister. As she miraculously survived numerous ordeals, from King Joffrey's torment to Ramsay Bolton's sadism, she is now going to make it to the final season of the show, which is due to air at some point in 2019. Going through hardship like this has hardened the character, so as she has visibly aged from a timid young girl to a powerful woman, she has also matured and become a good leader. But, if you thought that the transformation that Sansa underwent on screen is the end of it, you're in for a surprise. Sophie Turner, the actress who plays Lady Stark, looks quite a bit different in real life. Not one to be typecast in a certain role, she has also expanded her filmography beyond the fantasy realm of Westeros, even headlining the next X-Men movie, Dark Phoenix, which is set to be released at the end of this year. The 21-year-old is also starring in a new movie called Huntsville, in which she plays a high school student who develops a questionable relationship with an older man. Some promotional shots have been released of the movie, and the woman we knew as Sansa Stark is looking a lot different: Across the released photos, she can be seen in her natural blonde rather than the red hair we often see her with in Game of Thrones, as well as sporting some tattoos. Not exactly what you would expect from the Lady of Winterfell. Based on a 2014 Black List script by Anthony Ragnone, the film has been completed and is set to be released in March 2018. This will likely tide over fans hoping to see Turner on screen in the long wait until the final season of Game of Thrones. "It's exciting. Shooting these scenes, knowing how it ends now, finally, after years and years of being kept in anticipation. We're shooting all of our final scenes," she said. "It's getting incredibly emotional. It's very real now."