The Joan series does not yet have an official platform in Brazil, but it marks a new turning point in Sophie Turner‘s career as a leading actress after Dark Phoenix had lukewarm reactions, and even with a strong franchise like X-Men she has not yet surpassed “Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones“.

Inspired by the true story of the woman considered the greatest diamond thief in the United Kingdom, Joan Hannington, Joan can reinforce the image of protagonist and dramatic actress for Sophie, who like many before her is still facing the transition from child actress starring in a TV phenomenon series to adult actress. With two daughters and a divorce before the age of 30, she is certainly not a child.

The series, from what it seems in the trailers, presents Joan’s motivation to enter the world of crime as the fight for custody of her daughter, something that paradoxically resonated with Sophie’s life unexpectedly, but which has been used in the promotion, of course.

In an interview with Variety, Sophie Turner comments that she was still pregnant with her second daughter when she first auditioned for the role. “She [Joan] is very different from anyone I’ve ever played. It came through my agent, and I auditioned when I was very pregnant with my second daughter and then a second audition a few days after I gave birth,” she revealed. “But it was a great time to do it, because of the subject matter of Joan and what she has to go through. I had that maternal fierceness in me and I think that served my audition,” she argued.

Sophie didn’t have to opt for such radical and illegal alternatives to obtain joint custody of her daughters, but it wasn’t a private or fight-free process either. She and her ex-husband, singer Joe Jonas, initially went into a dispute full of accusations from both sides, with him alleging negligence on her part while filming the series Joan. Popular on the Internet, Sophie found support from women who were upset with Jonas’s attempt to tarnish her reputation (another of his exes, singer Taylor Swift, literally gave the actress shelter and hung around her, creating even greater embarrassment for the singer who ended up backing down).

The former couple reached an agreement and today they are “all good”, but in a twisted way, the separation comes up again with the series. “Joan was coming to an end at that time, so I had already filmed all my scenes with Mia [Millichamp-Long, who plays her daughter in the series] at that point”, she explains. “Yeah, it seemed like an interesting time with that subject. It was still at the forefront of my mind. I mean, you would do anything for your children, you would die for them, so I totally understood Joan – I totally understood”, she recalls.

Although she acknowledges that her participation in the Marvel universe with X-Men is out of the cards, “the story of Jean Grey for me has had its time”, Sophie would not rule out returning to the North of Westeros in the role of Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones, but only for one season, kind of to satisfy her longing and curiosity about how she is doing as Queen.

While returning to George R.R. Martin‘s universe is only hypothetical, a reunion with Kit Harington on the big screen is completely real. No, it’s not in Snow, the shelved MAX series, the two will be a couple (look at the rekindling of the Jonsas who were so rooting for the cousins ​​raised as siblings in the series!) in the film The Dreadful. “It’s a Robert Eggers-esque horror set during the War of the Roses”, she explains to Variety. This signals a period piece, as the Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars fought by the English in the 1400s.

The Dreadful follows Anne (Turner) and her mother-in-law Morwen (the actress has yet to be announced), who lives a lonely and harsh life on the outskirts of society – but when a man from the past (Harington) returns, he sets off a chain of events that will become a turning point for Anne.

Directed by Natasha Kermani, who also wrote the script, Kit and Sophie describe the film as a “gothic horror” and work is already in pre-production, but has not yet started filming.

There are other projects already lined up for Sophie, such as the Amazon Prime Video series Haven also in pre-production and where she plays Zara, “an office worker at pension fund investment firm Lochmill Capital, whose day is turned upside down when a gang of violent thieves bursts in demanding she help them steal billions of pounds of pensions from ordinary people”.

She welcomes all the work she does, and she explained to Variety that she is determined to get her career back on track. “I kind of settled into building a family and I wanted to spend as much time with them as possible. And now I want them to see me working. And also, for me, I want to be back on my feet and doing what I love, to be able to do what I love.”

“Acting is really what fulfills me in my life. When I can be on a set, I’m very happy. I’m very lucky to be able to balance the two things that fulfill me the most, which are being a mother and acting,” she explained.

We’ll see how Joan will be received by critics. The series premieres today on ITV.

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