Sophie Turner recently told Flaunt magazine as part of a cover story that “ Game of Thrones ” was “actually doing a lot of justice to women” despite generating constant backlash during its run for putting its female characters through violent and/or sexually gratuitous scenes. Turner starred on all eight seasons of the HBO series as Sansa Stark. She was at the center of one of the show’s biggest controversies when Sansa was brutally raped on her wedding night in Season 5. Turner stands by the horrific moment.

“I did feel — and still do — that ‘Game of Thrones’ shone a light on things that many people were like ‘Oh god, you can’t show that kind of thing’ — and I understand it can be triggering — I totally understand that point of view,” Turner told the publication. “But I did feel we

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