Maisie Williams will likely have to spend the next year avoiding spoiling any Game of Thrones secrets, but she really doesn't get why fans would want them.
Talking to Digital Spy, she compared it to when you're a child and you might sneak into your parents' room to see what you got for Christmas before the big day.
"When it comes to Christmas Day, it's not going to be as exciting. And in that moment when you're sneaking off, you can't share that moment with anyone, you're just you sitting there staring at a present, it's not exciting," she explained.
"People feel like they want spoilers, but even if I was really good at creative writing or speaking, I would never be able to tell you what's going to happen anywhere near as well as if you just sat and watched it. It would only ever be an anti-climax. I've never struggled with keeping secrets because I know that it would just ruin it for people."
We're firmly on her side here and even more so when Williams joked about the circumstances that would see her drop a Thrones bombshell: "I would only ever tell someone a spoiler if i didn't like them. I should use it as ammunition."
While we wait for 2019 and the final season of Game of Thrones, we'll be hearing Williams in new Aardman movie Early Man which she told Digital Spy taught her something about her voice.
"I rely on my facial expressions and my body language really heavily in filming, which I hadn't noticed until I started to deliver a line that they say needs to sound really empowering and really excited, and you try and say it and it just sounds flat. I really felt like I was giving it my all and it just doesn't sound the same," she recalled.
Early Man is released in UK cinemas on 26 January and US cinemas on February 16.
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