Comic-Con: ‘Game of Thrones’ panel tackles

There’s no question that the biggest news to come out of Friday’s “Game of Thrones” Comic-Con International panel was the announcement of the nine new actors who would be joining the cast of HBO’s acclaimed fantasy series in its fifth season.



But one of the most intriguing comments made during the hourlong session that focused mostly on audience Q&A was from the lips of Maisie Williams (who earlier in the day had been touted as a potential lead in the upcoming “The Last of Us” movie adaptation). Near the end of the presentation, she was asked about her character Arya Stark’s journey and how she viewed her alter-ego’s evolution.

“She is no one,” Williams said, receiving cheers from the audience members familiar with the George R.R. Martin novels that inspired the series.



The statement, though seemingly innocuous, suggests that Arya’s journey to Braavos, which she began to undertake at the conclusion of Season 4, will lead to a place at least similar to where she finds herself in the latter books in the “Song of Ice and Fire” novels.



Williams was joined on the panel by her castmates John Bradley, Rose Leslie, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Natalie Dormer, Rory McCann, Gwendoline Christie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Pedro Pascal, in addition to Martin and the show’s creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.