Category: Press
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Pistol’s Maisie Williams On Her Mind-Blowing Transformation Into Punk Icon Jordan
British Vogue-The second episode of Pistol, the new Disney+ miniseries from writer Craig Pearce and director Danny Boyle which tracks the stratospheric rise and spectacular fall of the Sex Pistols, opens with a shot of Maisie Williams as Jordan. Born Pamela Rooke, the punk icon is seen cycling down a quiet street in her hometown…
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Maisie Williams Leaned Into Punk-Rock Style For Her Pistol Press Tour
Vogue-You may know Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones, but for her latest television project, the actor shed Arya Stark’s warrior cloaks in favor of a punk-rock wardrobe. Williams is starring in FX’s six-episode limited series Pistol, premiering today, which explores the rise and crash of Sex Pistols—the English band who ignited a counterculture movement…
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Maisie Williams and Thomas Brodie-Sangster talk Pistol and punks
It was in 2012 when Danny Boyle first captured the mood of the nation with his beautifully uplifting Olympics Opening Ceremony. Fast forward 10 years and he’s done it again, but this time the mood is of the UK right now is ferocious anger. Pistol is Boyle’s first foray into TV. It’s a six-episode limited…
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Maisie Williams Details ‘Mental Transformation’ for Her Role on ‘Pistol’
Maisie Williams used her time in the makeup chair to physically and mentally transform herself in the new FX show Pistol. The Game of Thrones actress has a starring role in the new biographical drama about the Sex Pistols. Created by Craig Pearce and directed by Danny Boyle, all six episodes are available to watch on Hulu now. Williams portrays the…
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Maisie Williams Felt She Could Be ‘Someone Completely Brand-New’ With ‘Pistol’ Role
‘Pistol’ stars Maisie Williams and Talulah Riley spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HL about the crucial women of the punk movement, how fashion has impacted them, and more. Pistol revolves around the rise of the Sex Pistols and the punk movement in the 1970s, and there were two women who played very important roles in solidifying…
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Maisie Williams & Thomas Brodie Sangster – “I Felt Hugely Confident & Secure In Myself”
PISTOL is a six-episode limited series about a rock and roll revolution. Based on Sex Pistols’ founding member and guitarist, Steve Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, this is the story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened…