'Game Of Thrones' Season 6 News: Maisie Williams Plays Up 'Alive Or Dead?' Speculation Around Jon Snow

By Jackie Villegas, Christian Post Contributor Monday, January 25, 2016

Just when it seemed like the chatter about the fate of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in the hit HBO show's forthcoming Season 6 was finally settling down just a bit, Maisie Williams, who plays Snow's younger half-sister Arya Stark in the fantasy drama series, has fuelled "Game of Thrones" fan speculation anew.

Speaking from the 2016 U.K. Critics' Circle Awards where she won the award for Young British/Irish Performer of the Year, the 18-year-old actress dished about the Lord Commander's fate to The Hollywood Reporter.

"It was awful," the "Doctor Who" actress said, talking about Snow's season five death. She added: "Everyone felt so sad about it. And I felt so mean, because I'd speak to people, and they'd be like, 'Jon Snow…is he back?' And it's really heartbreaking, because they're like, 'Yeah, but he's coming back though.''

"It's a great twist, but I can't say that he's going to be alive," Williams revealed.

While most fans of the show now believe that the betrayed Lord Commander of the Night's Watch will somehow recover from his apparent death at the end of Season 5, the "Game of Thrones" star's recent comment has gotten "Thrones" theorists talking once again about how exactly Jon Snow will come back - and in what form.

One possibility is that Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), Jon's green-seeing and warging younger half-brother will inhabit his body. Hempstead-Wright, who was last seen in Season 4, will return in Season 6 in a reportedly more central role.

Or, despite the fact that many "Game of Thrones" viewers think that Melisandre (Carice van Houten) will resurrect Jon, could it be that it will be The Night's King who does so instead? Could Jon Snow reanimate as a White Walker? And if so, will any remnant of the young man's personality be retained?

Find out when "Game of Thrones" returns on April 24.