(Photo courtesy Helen Sloane/HBO) Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in Season 8 of “Game of Thrones.” In the making-of feature, executive producer/writer/co-creator David Benioff noted that Williams “has an excellent stuntwoman for the dangerous stuff.” But it was the actress herself who leapt, twirled and stabbed her way through corridors slaying wights, then avoided being killed as she tiptoed though the library in one of TV’s most suspenseful moments of the year.Īnd Baskett was not, of course, involved in Arya’s second-biggest scene to date in the final season - when the character who has grown from a young girl to a young woman since the show premiered in 2011 bedded Gendry (Joe Dempsie) because she didn’t want to die a virgin. In an email to The Salt Lake Tribune, stunt coordinator Rowley Irlam confirmed that in last Sunday’s episode, “Maisie did all her own stunts, apart from the Winterfell roof jump” and a scene in which Arya tumbled down the stairs while battling the undead wights. A behind-the-scenes online feature about “The Long Night” showed that it was Williams who flew in (on ropes removed digitally in post-production) to deliver the death blow that shattered the Night King. The former gymnast did not, however, make ice chips out of the Night King. Those are cool, but arguably nothing compares to one of her most recent gigs, flying around and playing with swords on “Game of Thrones.” In 2014, Baskett told The Salt Lake Tribune how much she was relishing learning more knife and combat skills.
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She landed a part in the performance art production “Le Reve” in Las Vegas, which led to more than 75 credits as a stunt performer or stunt double onscreen - including the TV movie “Sharknado,” theatrical films “Divergent” (2014), “Jason Bourne” and “The Great Wall,” as well as TV series like “Bones,” “Scandal,” “The Goldbergs,” “Castle,” “Teen Wolf” and “American Horror Story.”Īmong those she’s stunt-doubled for are Reese Witherspoon in “Wild,” Lea Michele in “Glee,” Sarah Hyland in “Modern Family,” Chloe Bennet and Ming-Na Wen in “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” and Utahn Ally Ioannides in “Into the Badlands.” She planned to turn her photography hobby into a career, but life had other plans for her. You’re going to be as lost as Bran looks.)īaskett can’t discuss her role in the show until the series is complete, but here’s a quick summary of how she came to help create the character everyone is talking about right now.īaskett competed for the Utes from 2006 to 2009, becoming an All-American national champion and one of the program’s most popular gymnasts for her skills and easygoing attitude. (If you’ve resisted falling for the series this long, or are behind in your “GOT” binge-watching, this discussion isn’t for you. So maybe she deserves some of the credit for saving all of humanity from joining the army of the dead. She’s appeared in 11 episodes, including “The Spoils of War” in Season 7 - the episode in which Arya sparred with Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) at the Stark castle, Winterfell. OK, so the former Utah gymnast didn’t have the glory of slaying TV’s baddest cold-hearted villain on “Game of Thrones.” That honor went to actress Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which is in its eighth and final season.īut Baskett has been Williams’ stunt double since Season 5. “Oh, and I was the stunt double for the killer of the Night King.” I am experienced in flips, twists and knife fights,” she might say. By leaping off the roof of Winterfell, Kristina Baskett solidified one of the coolest post-gymnastics resumés ever.
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