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"Last season people asked: 'Is she dead?' I'm all, 'No, she's blind.' It's too easy to kill her," says Williams. "If there's one thing we've learned from Game of Thrones it's that death is the easy way out."

"She's learning the last lesson she needs to learn," says Clarke. "There's just few remnants of being a human being she's shaking off."

"She really has nothing to lose and she has everything to gain from the horrible position she finds herself in," says Headey.

"This is the season I'm most excited for," says Turner. "Sansa's coming into her own and standing up for herself."

"Brienne is so unique and unconventional and so strong, and I love the writing hasn't allowed her to just rest there," says Christie.

'We've seen Margaery in a lot of sticky situations, but she's never been out of her depth before," says Dormer.

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