Considering that she's best known for making Game of Thrones viewers squirm in sympathy for her agonizing portrayal of Sansa Stark—a damsel regularly subjected to some of the most depraved (and creative?) psychosexual torture on television—it's a relief that Sophie Turner, IRL, is kind of a goober. “Anchorman is my favorite movie in the world,” she says breathlessly, recounting her nervous glee at landing a seat near Steve Carell at the SAG Awards. “I was yelling, like, ‘I love lamp!’ and waiting for him to reply.”

In X-Men: Apocalypse, the 20-year-old English actress will finally get to dish out some hurt as young Jean Grey, an angsty teenage version of the Lycra-clad telepath Marvel Comics made famous. Turner says she devoted lots of downtime to practicing Grey's mind-control squinch in the mirror: “I was like, ‘I don't want to look like an idiot doing this.’ ”

She got it down. Time to set her destructive sights on Winterfell.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how badly do you wanna see Sansa fuck shit up this season?

“Ten! TEN! Obviously. I want her to raise hell.”

GQ: Whose hair takes longer to style on the show: Yours or Kit Harington's?

That's a good question. If it was up to Kit, as to how long hair would take, he would take longer on those. But it's mine that takes longer. He wakes up and his is terrific naturally. He's got like the perfect little pin curls. He looks amazing. Mine takes a while. I don't wake up looking like Kit Harington.

What's his secret? How does he do it?

He'll kill me for saying this, but if we're on the red carpet, I promise he'll stand in front of the mirror for hours. I've seen him do it. Even though he wakes up perfect, it's never good enough for him. He's gonna absolutely kill me.

"I don't wake up looking like Kit Harington."

Do you ever see Maisie [Williams, who plays Arya Stark] killing people on the show, and think, I can't wait till Sansa gets to do that too?

Ugh, yes. Totally. Like the past five seasons, when Maisie is getting to run around with swords and in trousers and stuff, I'm just like, "Gah. Man that looks like so much fun!" But Sansa's never gonna be doing that. Her weapon is her mind. Her intellect. She's a sharp one.

Do you ever get scared when you're flipping through a script that Sansa's gonna die?

Oh my God, I'm so terrified.

Is that a fear everyone on the show has?

Yes, oh my God. Yeah. It's crazy. Almost every day we're on set we're like, "Who do you think is gonna go next?" It's almost like living in the Blair Witch project.

What happens on set when someone dies?

There's always a lot of drinks at the bar. But by now we're so used to it. We used to have big things when other people died. But there's so many people who die now, we're like, "Can't really afford it, man. We've been out every night."

With Sansa it seems like you're always having to tap into this dark, demented place to play her. And then on Twitter and Instagram you're, like, a hilarious teen ray of sunshine. Is this a contrast you're aware of? Something you're perpetuating on some level to show everyone, like, Hey! This is me!?

I don't know if I'm trying my best to be happy when I'm shooting this depressing show. I don't know if it's an intentional or conscious [thing], but I definitely am just a very happy person.

You do have to go to some headspace to play Sansa. But you leave that at work. I'll never take that home. Especially because—and people don't realize this, but—when you're on set it's a very jolted thing. It's not like you're in that headspace all day. Sometimes you'll have like two hours in between [set ups] where you'll go and sit with the rest of the cast, and you can't just sit there being quiet and miserable all day. It's a headspace I go to for 15 minutes at a time and I hop right back out of it. It never really affects me too much.