‘I Look Like Hannibal Lecter’

Sophie Turner’s breakout position as Sansa Stark on the hit fantasy collection Recreation of Thrones made the British actress a family identify. And whereas the HBO present remains to be binge-worthy years after its finale, Turner is watching one thing a little bit lighter when she’s in flight. “If I’m not sleeping, any Actual Housewives—I’m binging the entire means. You need to watch it!” she stated, itemizing the Salt Lake Metropolis franchise as her favourite, although she’s additionally keen on Potomac and Beverly Hills. Turner sat down with Journey + Leisure to speak about her different journey necessities (past the Actual Housewives), her jet lag hacks, and her favourite filming location.

Although the Emmy-winning Recreation of Thrones led to 2019 after eight globe-trotting seasons, Turner’s love of taking pictures in lovely, far-flung areas has endured. She has gone on to star in lots of movies, together with “X-Males: Darkish Phoenix” (2019) and “The Dreadful” (2024), requiring her to journey everywhere in the world. For Turner, one location nonetheless stands out: Iceland (one in all many notable Recreation of Thrones filming areas). “I simply discovered Iceland completely astonishingly lovely, just like the panorama with northern lights. It is also that I shot there in the summertime when there’s one thing like 22 hours of sunshine, and it was a really weird expertise. It was simply lovely.” As for different dream filming areas, she would like to work on one thing in Norway. “I’ve by no means been to Norway, and I’d simply like to go there. I simply suppose it seems lovely.”

So, how does she survive an intense journey schedule typically full of lengthy flights? Her moisturizer (“my Weleda Pores and skin Meals”) and a dip within the closest physique of water, she instructed T+L. “Whether or not it is a tub, a pool, an ice tub, no matter it could be. I believe it simply calms my system down. It additionally actually helps me with jet lag as effectively. I am a Pisces, so I simply must be in water. It is like a rejuvenation. It feeds my soul.” For lodge swimming pools, she recommends the Corinthia Resort in London, however she additionally loves swimming out within the open, like when she went to Egypt final 12 months and hopped into her new favourite physique of water. “We had been on the River Nile, and all of us jumped off the boat [into the river], and I believe that was most likely my favourite.”

One other journey should for Turner? Instantly ordering room service when she checks into her lodge room. “Pay attention, my go-to order will all the time be spaghetti with butter and cheese. Children meals, man, it’s one of the best!” the mom of two stated with fun. Although she orders off the kids’s menu, she does the very grownup factor of instantly unpacking after her room service meal—each routines assist with a way of normalcy. 

Her last journey staple? A Hugo spritz. “It completely is the spirit of journey,” Turner stated. She is such a fan of the cocktail that she has partnered with St-Germain for the second 12 months in a row on a brand new marketing campaign known as “Sip Into One thing Brisker.”  “I can have it anyplace, any time of day. It might be morning, night, no matter. There isn’t any bounds on the place I drink it,” she stated, noting she would love airways to begin making this drink a part of their cocktail applications.

The marketing campaign touts the St-Germain Hugo spritz because the official cocktail of summer time, and the model may have activations in St. Tropez and Cannes. The South of France holds a particular place in Turner’s coronary heart. “I’ve spent a whole lot of time there. Truly, I obtained married there [to ex-husband Joe Jonas]. I’ve obtained a whole lot of nice recollections there, and I actually like it. I really like the panorama, I really like the folks, I really like the meals, I really like the drink. I simply suppose it is such a romantic, lovely, idyllic place.”