Maisie Williams opens up on shunning traditional beauty standards after battling to conform: ‘I cut my hair into a mullet and said I’m not going to even try any more’Kim Novak

Maisie Williams opened up on shunning traditional beauty standards for her own style (Picture: Luca Campri / NET-A-PORTER)

Maisie Williams has opened up about her decision to shun traditional beauty standards in favour of what suits her the most after ‘battling’ to conform. 

The former Game of Thrones star told NET-A-PORTER’s digital title, PORTER, for their latest cover story that she got a lot more compliments once she started to channel her own style rather than what people expected her to be. 

She explained: ‘For the longest time, I was battling with wanting to look traditionally like what people picture as beautiful and I was getting really lost in that.

‘Then, I cut my hair into a mullet and said, “Well, I’m not going to even try any more and I’m just gonna do something which I think really suits me and is still very different to everything I’ve been doing but feels right.”

‘I was never getting the “Oh my gosh, she looks so beautiful” [comments] before, but certainly afterwards I was getting “Wow, that’s really cool.”’

Maisie also bleached her eyebrows several months ago after accepting the role of punk model Pamela ‘Jordan’ Rooke in Danny Boyle’s new Disney+ TV series Pistol, something she kept up. 

Maisie got loads more compliments after embracing her own style (Picture: Luca Campri for PORTER,NET-A-PORTER.COM)

She kept up her bleached brows (Picture: Luca Campri for PORTER,NET-A-PORTER.COM)

Maisie is NET-A-PORTER’s digital title, PORTER’s cover star (Picture: Luca Campri for PORTER,NET-A-PORTER.COM)

She explained: ‘When you’re known for something that feels disconnected to where you would like to go, every single public appearance is an opportunity to take a step closer to that destination.’

While the 25-year-old is best known for playing Arya Stark in Game of Thrones, she has since been seeking out roles that ‘connect with all sides of my personality’.

Maisie explained: ‘Arya was written as hot-headed and I catch myself in roles jumping straight to being accusatory or angry or upset.

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‘I’ve felt myself kind of melting away from that, because that isn’t the reality of a lot of people. But it was Arya’s reality, and maybe mine, so I do find myself jumping there as if it were my place of comfort… I’d love to leave the crying and screaming for a while.’

To see the full interview with Maisie Williams read PORTER online and/or download the NET-A-PORTER app for iPhone, iPad and Android.

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