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. Cable giant HBOs very embarrassing 2017 has continued to get more embarrassing. On Wednesday night, hacker squad OurMine Security Group compromised Game of Thrones. 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. If you hadnt watched a single baseball game this year, you could have gotten pretty well caught up on how things are playing out just by watching the Dodgers and. 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. The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the alwaysexcellent Football Outsiders Almanac. Adobe Flash Cs3 Professional Youtube there. Buy it here as a PDF, or here in print. A Game Of Three Halves Hacked Photo' title='A Game Of Three Halves Hacked Photo' />Its not right, but it is part of the movie industry now. Its 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 shes reprising her role as Jean Grey. The interview, which isnt available online, also lays out the lessons shes learned about how to conduct herself online. 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 Ive just been informed that you can find the article online without a subscription. My searches for it werent yielding anything, probably because the text is in Flash. Porter magazine via The Telegraph.