Sophie Turner And Taylor Swift Would Probably Win The Iron Throne
We as the adoring masses are privy to some pretty intimate details of celebrity lives — to the point where everything I know about certain celebrities is painfully against my will. But with Sophie Turner? I simply can’t get enough.
And the thing is, she gives me close to nothing to work with. Amid a divorce with Joe Jonas, followed closely by a hilariously disastrous PR manoeuvre that felt like it came straight from the boomer handbook of celebrity divorces (2008 edition), and a rather irrelevant remark from Joe at a Jonas Brothers concert, Sophie remained curiously tight-lipped. Until, finally, now.
Sophie Turner recently showed up arm in arm with none other than the Taylor Swift for a night out in New York City. Celebrity obsessed fans (read: me) were instantly on red alert. I have questions and I need answers.
Did Sophie reach out to Taylor, or did Taylor reach out to Sophie? Did Joe ever resent Sophie and Taylor’s effortlessly cool back and forth on social media, that was about him but didn’t include him? Will Sophie be starring in Taylor’s next directorial endeavour? Is ‘Mr Perfectly Fine (Sophie’s Version)’ imminent?
Just think of all that rich context we’re undoubtedly missing here. Imagine the conversation between two young, incredibly successful women, who have now both broken up with the same Disney darling whose fame was founded on the powerful fandom of tween girls.
But now those same fans have now grown up, and watched Game Of Thrones. The overwhelming support for Sophie throughout this saga feels like a do-over for all those times when women have been failed by intense media scrutiny and held to impossibly high standards, while the men, well… they’re still just Ken.
Also: I’m so buying into the ‘cool theory’ surrounding Sophie, where fans have speculated that Sophie’s effortlessly cool reputation lulled Joe into a false sense of coolness himself, but is now rapidly collapsing around him.
Sophie knows she’s being watched, and she’s playing the game. In another era, pre-Barbie, Eras tour or Tube Girl, it might’ve even been labelled as manipulative or, dare I say, snakey. But not today.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at that dinner date.
Lia Kim is writer and producer at Junkee. She’s on Twitter, Instagram, and most socials as @ellekaylia.