London July 10 (IANS) Actress Maisie Williams has blasted the sexualisation of young actresses in Hollywood and says she feels relieved that it hasn t happened to her.
The "Game of Thrones" actress says it is unfair that teen stars are "forced to play characters who are a lot more mature" and she feels lucky that this hasn t happened to her reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"I have been really lucky. In that I play characters who aren t necessarily the eye candy. It s hard for young actresses who still feel like scrappy teenagers but are sort of forced to play characters who are a lot more mature because you know young sexy woman really sells in Hollywood " Williams told Sunday Times Style magazine.
Williams landed her role of Arya Stark on the hit TV show "Game of Thrones" when she was just 12 and says she was a lot more fearless at that age than she is now at 20.
"At 12 I was fearless and didn t care so I really enjoyed it. But then as each season passed the pressure built and it became a little destructive. Everyone goes through that dip in confidence. That also came with puberty. It all fizzled out a bit and I lost my confidence and now I m slowly starting to get it back again.
"But the first two years were weird. I was having the time of my life but I look back and I think I wasn t really very happy because I didn t have many friends. I had left school and I was working a lot and it was a strange time.
"I remember in maybe season two or three other cast members coming up to me and saying Your life is going to change and to me that wasn t exciting. I was like I don t want it to change I quite enjoy my life " she said.
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