In this article, we’re going to discuss spoilers for Game Of Thrones season 8 episode 3, The Long Night. Here’s what Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark, had to say about the big Battle of Winterfell…

Arya, of course, landed the final blow on the Night King, using a neat little trick to stick the icy undead overlord with the pointy end of her little dagger – the same one which was used to try and kill Bran, way back in season 1, and then gifted back to the Starks by Littlefinger in season 7.

Speaking to EW, Williams said this about her big moment in the episode:

“It was so unbelievably exciting. But I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn’t deserve it. The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain that’s so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them. It has to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, ‘Well, [the villain] couldn’t have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.’ You gotta make it cool. And then I told my boyfriend and he was like, ‘Mmm, should be Jon though really, shouldn’t it?’”

Filming her scene with Candice van Houten’s Melisandre, aka the Red Woman, helped Williams get to grips with the idea:

“When we did the whole bit with Melisandre, I realized the whole scene with [the Red Woman] brings it back to everything I’ve been working for over these past 6 seasons — 4 if you think about it since [Arya] got to the House of Black and White,” Williams says. “It all comes down to this one very moment. It’s also unexpected and that’s what this show does. So then I was like, ‘F—k you Jon, I get it.’”

We’ll keep bringing you Game Of Thrones news as we see it.