Game of Thrones Star Says She Got Acting Role Because She Has Millions of Social Media Followers. Sophie Turner, best known as Sansa Stark in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, has a lot of followers on social media.

And according to Turner, producers take that kind of thing into consideration when casting different projects. In fact, Turner says that she only got a recent acting gig because she has a large presence on social media. Turner has built up a huge audience online, with 1.

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Twitter, 5. 4 million followers on Instagram, and over 2 million followers on Facebook. And according to a new interview, those numbers helped her secure a role that may have been better suited to an actress with fewer followers.“A lot of what I have achieved is about timing and luck, but it is also, and I hate to say it, about a big social- media following,” Turner said in the latest issue of Portermagazine.“I auditioned for a project and it was between me and another girl who is a far better actress than I am, far better, but I had the followers, so I got the job,” Turner said. It’s not right, but it is part of the movie industry now.”It’s not clear what acting gig Turner was talking about, but she has four unreleased films in the works, including Berlin, I Love You, Huntsville, Time Freak, and the upcoming X- Men movie where she’s reprising her role as Jean Grey. The interview, which isn’t available online, also lays out the lessons she’s learned about how to conduct herself online. Watch Strong Island Megavideo. Turner explains that as a teenager (she first got the role on Games of Thrones at 1.

But she now says that she tries to keep her “mouth shut.”Turner is on the cover of the latest issue of Porter magazine, which is available on newsstands and as a digital- only subscription. Correction: I’ve just been informed that you can find the article online without a subscription. My searches for it weren’t yielding anything, probably because the text is in Flash.[Porter magazine via The Telegraph].

Beauty and the Beast's Dan Stevens in oversized bodysuit. Given he was playing 'the beast', he should have known his costume was not going to be particularly elegant. But even Dan Stevens must of had a shock when he was made to wear a bizarre- looking oversized CGI bodysuit and a pair of stilts for his star role in this year's remake of the 1. Disney classic. In hilarious behind- the- scenes footage released on Tuesday, the 3.

Emma Watson, 2. 7, who is wearing a stunning yellow dress. Not so Romeo! Dan Stevens wore a hilarious oversized bodysuit in pre- CGI Beauty and the Beast footage released online on Tuesday. Speaking about the prop, Dan said: 'Puppeteering the suit for the motion- capture was an ordeal for my calf muscles alone, let alone the whole body just to kind of manipulate it.'Writing on Twitter, one viewer praised Emma, who plays the beast's lover Belle, saying that she did well 'to keep a serious face'. Dan recently revealed that the bulky suit made him sweat so much that he ate four roast dinners a day to replace the lost calories. Don't trip up! The 3. 4- year- old actor lumbers down a flight of stairs in the outrageous item while hand in hand with Emma Watson, 2.

Tricky: Speaking about the prop, Dan said, 'Puppeteering the suit for the motion- capture was an ordeal for my calf muscles alone, let alone the whole body just to kind of manipulate it'Try not to laugh! Writing on Twitter, one viewer praised Emma, who plays the beast's lover Belle, saying that she did well 'to keep a serious face''I was losing so much fluid from sweating,' he told the Radio Times. I was honestly eating four roast dinners every day, just to keep any form of physicality.'He also told the U. S. A Today Show: 'Everything else looked gorgeous and beautiful. Emma Watson, her dress - beautiful. The sets were incredible.'And there's me, just sweating away through the set, "This is going to look different, right? This is going to be OK?'"Not fair! Sons Of Anarchy Season 1 Episode 10 Online.

He also told the U. S. A Today Show, 'Everything else looked gorgeous and beautiful.

Emma Watson, her dress - beautiful. The sets were incredible'Extra work: As well as wearing the suit, Dan also had to shoot his facial movements separately after filming was done for the day. The special effects posed an extra difficulty for the film crew. If they were to capture Dan's facial movements and transfer them onto the animated beast they would need a large number of cameras, which could obstruct Dan's movement. So instead Dan had to reenact all his facial movements at the end of each day in front of a computer screen. Can't face it!

This was because to capture Dan's facial movements and transfer them onto the animated beast would have needed a large number of cameras, which could obstruct Dan's movement. He described the laborious procedure: 'There's a whole different facial capture, so you have to rethink yourself into the scenes you just shot one or two weeks ago without moving your body, just moving your face.' According to director Bill Condon, all the effort was worth it. He said: 'I really stood in awe of Dan. 'Not only did he conquer the technology, he also had great fun with it.'Back in real life: Dan and Emma pose together on the red carpet at the UK launch of Beauty and the Beast in London on February 2.