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Jessica Chastain Calls Out 'Game Of Thrones' Over Rape Plot Device

LOADING ERROR LOADING Warning: spoilers for “Game of Thrones” below. Jessica Chastain has called out “Game of Thrones” for the way in which it used the rape endured by Sansa Stark in an earlier season as a plot point in Sunday’s latest episode. The Hound told Stark: “You’ve changed, little bird.” He claimed that “none of it would have happened if you’d left Kings Landing with me, no Littlefinger, no Ramsay, none of it.” Stark replied: “Without Littlefinger and Ramsay and the rest, I would’ve stayed a little bird all my life.” Chastain tweeted that “rape is not a tool to make a character stronger.” Rape is not a tool to make a character stronger. And her alone.#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/TVIyt8LYxI — Jessica Chastain May 7, 2019 “A woman doesn’t need to be victimized in order to become a butterfly. https://t.co/4YvP1BGHbs — Courtney Enlow May 7, 2019 Turner, 23, stars alongside Chastain, 42, in “X-Men: Dark Phoenix.” She has not responded to Chastain’s criticism of the scene.

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