Maisie Williams Lost Over 25 Pounds for Role as Catherine Dior in The New Look

The ‘Game of Thrones’ youngster also suffered from nightmares and insomnia while preparing for the role

Maisie Williams underwent a few changes for her latest role.

For Williams’ upcoming show, A new lookshe embraced a major physical change to transform into her Catherine Dior character.

The Game of Thrones alum, 26, revealed in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK. that she shaved her head and lost about 25 kilograms to embody her role as Christian Dior’s younger sister. “I ate very little, meditated all the time, lit candles and incense in the apartment,” Williams revealed.

The process of losing 25 kilograms was supervised by a team of medical professionals who regularly monitored her heart rate and administered blood tests. Williams explained that most of her weight loss was precipitated by sweating out the liquid right before the shoot.

“I had to get up at 4 a.m. to start sweating. The night before, around 7 or 8 p.m., I was allowed to eat something salty and dehydrating—some smoked salmon and a small glass of wine,” Williams recalled. “Then I had a boiling bath with lots of salt. I kind of floated into bed and slept for maybe three hours, then woke up and ate a handful of walnuts.”

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Maisie Williams in “The New Look.”.

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“I wouldn’t be able to sleep through the night at this point,” shared the actress. “I kept waking up and felt like a marble in a bottle, rattling around . . .”

During sleepless nights, she discovered that she had been listening to the book on which the series was based, Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Fashion.

Williams added that in addition to her sleep cycles, she also had nightmares that made the actress feel like Catherine Dior, a World War II French resistance fighter.

She explained that her dreams make her feel “restricted” and “almost like sleep paralysis.” Williams explained that these dreams included “terrifying visions of men in uniform” and she felt like she was “trapped and attacked”.

As the conversation continued, the actress explained that the physical demands of her recent role were vastly different from playing Arya Stark in Game of Thrones. She noted that Catherine “took over” what she ate, how she moved, slept and thought, while Arya required her to “build different muscles.”

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A new look premiering Wednesday, February 14 on AppleTV+.

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