7 Nov 2017
Sophie Turner has some strong words for those who criticized 14-year-old Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard for not stopping to greet fans that waited outside his hotel. As someone who began her career as a teenager herself—Game of Thrones premiered when she was 15—she understands fully what it means to be in the public eye at a young age, and she came to his defense in a series of Tweets on Monday following the online backlash he received.
"Damn... seeing fully grown adults wait outside the ‘Stranger Things’ kids’ hotels etc, and then abuse them when they don’t stop for them is super weird A. What adult in their right mind waits for a CHILD outside their hotel and B. is then is offended when the CHILD doesn’t stop," she began in her first two Tweets. "It doesn’t matter if they are an actor they are kids first. Give them the space they need in order to grow without feeling like they owe anyone anything for living their childhood dreams."
Preach, Sophie. She finished the by asking her followers to imagine what it would be like to be a parent to a kid in a similar situation. "It doesn’t matter if that child happens to be an actor and consented to a professional film crew capturing their moves when in character. That does NOT mean that this child consented to being followed around with a camera in their face," she continued. Read all of her comments below.
Turner isn't the only one who has come to Wolfhard's defense. Former co-star Shannon Purser, who played Barb on the show, also spoke on his behalf.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Hi. [INAUDIBLE] Hi Joshington [INAUDIBLE]. Hi and she's going to train me in X-men combat. Are we ready? We're ready. To get X-rated. [MUSIC] Step 1. What do we need to do? Well step number 1, to become a superhero you need a costume. Luckily for you, hold the line. My God. So let's put yours on. Okay. I'll do this for you. This is just like in my pretty woman [INAUDIBLE] nice necklace on. But way more masculine. I kind of wished I kind of have one of those superhero outfits that made you more hench. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, the ones where you have muscle suits built-in? Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have one of them but all the boys did cuz they were skinnier than me. [LAUGH] Costume ready. [INAUDIBLE] King. You're looking fantastic. A little spin. Yeah, definitely. Wait let's have a run so that hopefully our capes fly. Okay go. [MUSIC] Step 2. We need to train like superheros. We need to train. So let' do some push ups. I'm not good at push ups how many are we gonna do? Okay. We're gonna do ten. Ten? Are you, are we gonna do girly press-ups? Or like masculine press-ups? No masculine press-ups. My God. Ready? Okay. [SOUND] [NOISE] My god. I'm starting to feel like a proper Xmen. How long did you train for Xmen for? For eight months leading up to filming. You my god you're literally like a machine. Step 3. We have to fight. Like superhero. Okay, cool. So, what's like a good fight move do you feel? I mean, this is always like a good starter. Like this? Yeah. And then like, kinda like, you just need to get like the posing [UNKNOWN] you know. Yeah. So it's all about the pose. It;s all about limbs going everywhere, you know. So you're kind of like sketching people out without doing anything. Yeah you're just kinda like where you're gonna go? I'm gonna go here. I'll go over here. I did before you now it. You got me like a head lock. Yeah. Cuz then I'm like this and you're like wow. Bang. Bang. Exactly. Dead. But really I don't need that because I'm telepathic and telekinetic So I just. The skills okay. And that's all that happens. So basically you just need to get the look down, if you look to camera and give them a good. Give them an intense smile. Yeah smile exactly. Yeah Tyra would be proud right now. Tyra would be so proud of us. So can you use those techniques on me right now like what do you think I'm thinking? I don't get it. My god, I feel like you're raping my brain right now. I am. I am. I'm molesting your brain. You're thinking Sophie is so sick and she's just the best superhero ever, to ever grace the marble universe. [MUSIC] M, j. Step four. Step four is you have to pose like a superhero. You have to get the pose down and then you become an official superhero. What would my superhero name be? Why wouldn't it be Josh Grey, cuz I'm Jean Grey, and then we can be married. Yay. My god we are just so modern forward thinking, yeah we're great. Superheroes, so bearing that in mind. [LAUGH] What's our pose gonna be? Bearing that in mind, it shouldn't be the class, I feel like it should be more like. Wow. Step number [SOUND] 5. Okay so your super hero power is reading people's minds. Your superhero power judging from like the whole stance and everything I'm saying king seduction. Because you've got me baby you've seduced me. I've seduced you, I haven't even done anything major, not even a chat up line. You didn't have to try, that's why you're a superhero. Scene. [LAUGH] Love it. That was amazing. I love that.
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