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In 2022, HBO Max streamed crime drama “The Staircase” fictionalizing the real, disturbing and confusing story of Michael Peterson and the death of his wife, Kathleen. Starring Colin Firth as Michael and Toni Collette as the late Kathleen – who finds herself at the bottom of a titular staircase, leading to speculation that her husband pushed her – the series boasts an incredible cast, including Dane DeHaan, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patrick Schwarzenegger (playing a child in a real-life dysfunctional family beforeI join a dysfunctional fictional character on “The White Lotus”), Rosemarie DeWitt, Juliette Binoche and Parker Posey. The cast Also features HBO stalwart Sophie Turner – and she plays Margaret, one of Michael’s adopted daughters, who is shocked by the affair affecting her family. Now the series is streaming on Netflix.
As Turner said Harper’s Bazaar in May 2022, she love this genre and I was incredibly excited to be part of a true crime series. “I find myself completely drawn to and totally fascinated by it. I don’t know why it’s become such a thing, but I love it,” the actress told the outlet, apparently laughing. “I’m invested, I’m in. Keep following them!” Yet Turner was also aware of a unique challenge at this point in her career: playing a character based on a real person.
“It was a whole different kind of game for me. We were very, very, very fortunate to be able to have our director in contact with a number of people involved in the case, Margaret being one of them,” Turner explained. Turner will play another real person in 2024 when she directs “Joan,” a British miniseries about real-life jewel thief Joan Hannington… but she was no stranger to HBO.
By the time she appeared in The Staircase, Sophie Turner was an HBO veteran
There’s no doubt that for a very long time, people will associate Sophie Turner with Sansa Stark and, therefore, “Game of Thrones.” Introduced in the very first episode of the series along with several other members of the main cast, Turner plays Stark’s eldest daughter, Sansa, who… how should I put this? She it’s rubbish First of all. In the early episodes of the series, Sansa is a bit whiny and completely obsessed with marrying the demented prince Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), until he cuts off her father Ned Stark’s (Sean Bean) head for the crime of rightly pointing out that Joffrey is the product of incest. (It’s true: Joffrey’s mother, Cersei Lannister, played by Lena Headey, didn’t have any her children with her royal husband, King Robert Baratheon, played by Mark Addy; they were all descended from his twin brother, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s Jaime Lannister.)
Once that It happens, Sansa doesn’t really want to marry Joffrey anymore, but that’s a shame – she’s stuck with him until he finds a more “suitable” candidate in the form of Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), and by that I mean “suitable” because Joffrey finds himself at war with the Starks and their allies after decapitating Ned. Fortunately, Sansa escapes Joffrey in the fourth season of the series – because he dies. like so many people on “Game of Thrones” are wont to do — and thanks to his keen instinct and inner strength, Sansa do live to see the end of the series. The end of the series might present some big problems, but Sansa is at least named Queen in the North, so all’s well that ends well.
Sophie Turner has been involved in some very fun projects
Since “Game of Thrones” and alongside “The Staircase,” Sophie Turner has continued to work steadily, which is a relief for those of us who really enjoyed her turn in the aforementioned HBO drama (despite, Again, this final season and series finale largely unpopular). If we’re playing favorites, I’d say one of my favorite Turner performances to date is a glorified (yes, really) cameo in the Netflix original film “Do Revenge,” where she plays the obnoxious and uptight Erica Norman, a member of an upscale country club who torments our two leads Drea Torres (Camila Mendes) and Eleanor Levestan (Maya Hawke). Frankly, the climax of the film is when, after Erica is forced to go to a rehab center after the two girls inject her with drugs to get her in trouble and kick her out of the tennis camp, she explodes at Drea, shouting that she “doesn’t do cocaine” in a delightfully unhinged performance that I still think about, all these years later.
In addition to that and the aforementioned “Joan,” Turner has appeared in projects like the horror film “Trust” and, of course, played Jean Gray in a few “X-Men” films to boot. If you want to watch Turner in “The Staircase” or “Game of Thrones,” though, they’re both on HBO Max, and “The Staircase” is heating up the charts on Netflix…and aren’t they both dark family dramas, in a way?
