What You Didn't Know About Sophie Turner

In 2019, fans everywhere were sad to see "Game of Thrones" finally come to an end. In fact, the series finale was the most-watched episode ever in HBO history, according to CNN. Actress Sophie Turner was especially saddened to see it go. "I really deeply, deeply miss it," she admitted during an interview with Elle. After appearing for nearly a decade on the iconic series, we've gotten to know the actress who plays Sansa Stark fairly well — or so we thought. There are actually a lot of things you wouldn't expect about Turner.

For example, though millions of fans around the world have loved watching her on "Game of Thrones," it's not something that this actress enjoys watching along with us. "I like to sit myself alone and watch it by myself normally," she admitted to E!. When she was only a teenager starring on the show, she would even kick her parents out of the room to watch by herself.

Turner has truly made it big since stepping off the set, and we've learned a whole lot more about her these last few years — especially after marrying a Jonas brother. This is the untold truth of Sophie Turner.

Few fans probably know that Sophie Turner is a twin. Yet, there's a reason that no one has ever seen her with her sibling. "Before I was born, I lost my twin," she admitted during an interview with Coming Soon, and this has even influenced the type of work she has decided to take on as an actress.

After wrapping up on her third season of "Game of Thrones" in 2013, Turner took on a role in a thriller all about twins. "Another Me" follows the story of a girl who starts to see someone that looks a lot like her. "I think I've always had a fascination for telepathy or the way that twins act and react with each other," Turner said. "I think I'm just subconsciously drawn to those projects."

In fact, Turner even credits her twin for helping her get into character for her other projects. "I always felt as though I needed someone or should have had someone there," she admitted to U.K. publication, You (via Hollywood.com). "I guess there's a sense of loss there that I have used to conjure emotions onscreen."

Before she began dating Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner surprisingly wasn't a big fan of his family. Growing up, "my friends and I were not Jonas Brothers fans," she admitted to Elle, and there's a very specific reason why. "We liked Busted," she explained.

In 2002, a British band called Busted had written a hit song called "Year 3000." "It was amazing," Turner gushed. When American band the Jonas Brothers decided to cover it four years later, it quickly became an international success — much more than her favorite band's rendition of it. When Busted officially broke up in 2005, "it was all the Jonas Brothers' fault," she explained. "So we hated them." (For the record, Busted broke up one year before the Jonas Brothers ever covered the iconic song.)

Turner is obviously on good terms with the trio now. In fact, in 2019, the brothers brought Busted onstage to reunite with them for a rendition of "Year 3000," and we're sure Turner was freaking out behind the scenes.

Though Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams aren't sisters in real life — unlike their iconic "Game of Thrones" characters — they're still pretty close. "She and I have a very, like, intense friendship," Turner explained in a video for Vogue Paris. "A friendship that I haven't had without any of my other girlfriends before."

The two — commonly referred to as "Mophie" — met during a chemistry read before they ever stepped foot on set, and their connection was instantaneous. "We were pretty much best friends from that second on," Turner told Rolling Stone. As the series escalated these two into stardom, they navigated the entertainment industry together, and from then on out, they spent practically every day together. In fact, Williams was set to be the maid of honor in Turner's wedding to Joe Jonas (via ET) but was replaced by sister-in-law Priyanka Chopra when Jonas and Turner decided to elope and get married in Las Vegas.

Though these two have chemistry off-screen, producers were always hesitant to ever place them on-screen together. "We're a nightmare to work with," Turner admitted. "If you're working with your best friend, you will never get any work done, ever. Anytime we tried to be serious about anything, it's just the hardest thing in the world. I think they really regretted putting us in scenes together. It was difficult."

While many of us are afraid of spiders, snakes, and small spaces, Sophie Turner has an entirely different fear — walking over sewer drains.

If you think about it, it does make sense. The clown from "It" has had us all doing a double-take, too, after we saw the film return to theaters in 2017. However, this fear is one that Turner has had since she was a kid. She has an interesting way that she copes with it, too. "I was told when I was very young that you have to say 'onions' to reverse the curse," she explained on an episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." "Now, I truly can't walk over a drain without freaking out and having to say 'onions' over and over." It's still not clear how she would be cursed or where this superstitious story was derived from. However, just to be safe, we'll start saying "onions," too.

Out of all the places you could meet your husband, it only makes sense in this day and age that Sophie Turner met hers online. Joe Jonas slid into her DMs on Instagram after his agent suggested they should meet. However, Turner was surprisingly hesitant to hang out with him. "I brought all my guy friends to come with me to meet him, because in the back of my mind I still worried that he could be a catfish," she admitted to Elle. Luckily, when she showed up to the bar, there stood the actual Jonas Brother himself.

After spending some time with him, Turner realized he was nothing like she had expected. "We talked for hours, and hours, and hours. And I was, like, not bored. It wasn't contrived. It wasn't small talk — it was just so easy," she said. "And soon we were, like, inseparable. I went on tour with him," and they got engaged a year later.

The two eventually tied the knot twice in 2019 — once at a small chapel in Las Vegas before hosting a huge formal affair in France.

Many people easily confuse Sophie Turner with Sansa Stark, and it's understandable. Yet, many of them would be surprised to know that this actress isn't actually a redhead. "I'm naturally blonde," she admitted to Marie Claire.

Every single week, Turner was required to dye her hair a fiery red for her character on "Game of Thrones." Eventually, she had to wear a wig in season seven, because she had dyed her hair so often, she revealed to Elle.

Since going back to her blonde roots — pun intended — Turner has had a lot of fans commenting on her natural color. "People don't seem to like me blonde," she explained to Harper's Bazaar. "Maybe I look too much like an Instagram influencer." However, her new 'do seems like the perfect change for her new phase in life as a wife. "There are elements of dating a Jonas brother that mean you get photographed a lot, and so when people see me blonde, maybe they associate me with that rather than the characters I play," she said. "So they change up the hair."

Just like the inseparable bond that Sansa Stark and her direwolf Lady had, Sophie Turner had the same connection with that same dog in real life. In fact, when the canine character was killed off in the second episode of the series, the young actress adopted her straight from the set.

Funny enough, there's a reason why this animal actor named Zunni was let go after only two episodes. "Zunni was a terrible actor, really bad on set," Turner explained to Harper's Bazaar. "She wouldn't respond to any of my calls and everyone was ready to fire her, so we took her on when I was 14." She was the actress' very first dog and lived alongside the Turner family until she passed away at age 11.

Today, Turner has three dogs that live with her and her husband – an Alaskan Klee Kai named Porky Basquiat, a Golden Retriever named Penelope, and a Corgi whose name has not yet been revealed, according to PopSugar.