Jessica Chastain and Ava DuVernay are taking HBO to task for what they say is the premium cabler’s insensitivity to rape and race on the blockbuster "Game of Thrones." Following Sunday’s “The Last of the Starks” episode Chastain on Monday criticized the show for using the rape and torture that Sophie Turner’s character, Sansa Stark, endured throughout the series as the reasons for her strength. In the fourth episode of the eighth and final season of the David Benioff and D.B. 'GAME OF THRONES' CREATORS REVEAL WHAT DRIVES DAENERYS TARGARYENThe Hound remarked that when he first met Sansa, she couldn’t look at him, and he had since heard she was “broken in rough” by Littlefinger and Ramsay Bolton. After marrying Sansa, Ramsay (Iwan Rheon) raped her multiple times in Season 5, which at the time led to criticism of the show’s use of rape as a narrative tool.

Source: Fox News May 07, 2019 22:51 UTC