If her engagement soirée with Joe Jonas is anything to go by, Sophie Turner seems to be very, very, very good at partying. And as it turns out, a huge part of that is knowing how and when to party responsibly. According to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Game of Thrones star had to cease her supremely fun ways for almost half a year while she filmed her new movie, X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
“I think I had like, two nights of proper partying and on a five-month shoot, that’s not very much,” Turner told EW. “It was funny, the first night that I went to bed early, we were all at like, this big group dinner, and I had to work the next day, and I was like, ‘Guys, it’s 9 p.m. and I really have to be in bed.’ All the producers were so shocked because they know me and they were like, ‘Are you okay?’”
A large part of this seemed to be due to the immense pressure that comes with playing someone as iconic as an X-Men character. In Dark Phoenix, according to EW, Turner stars as the lead Jean Grey, a telepathic superhero with a dark, powerful force inside of her named Phoenix. “I’m so nervous,” she said elsewhere in the interview. “As you say, it’s one of the most iconic storylines so revered and popular. I guess the response to the third movie wasn’t great and there’s definitely a pressure to do it justice.”
This meant that extremely fun but possibly debilitating things, like star-studded festivities as well as their aftereffects, might not be the best idea. “You only really get one shot at something like this,” she added. “I was like, ‘I cannot mess this up with a hangover.’” For a 21-year-old, that must take a huge amount of self-discipline. Hats off to you, Sophie.
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