Sophie Turner vows: ‘My Amazon Prime thriller will have you hooked’

She’s played Ned Stark’s daughter in Game of Thrones, an X-Men superhero and a diamond thief – but Sophie Turner’s latest role might just be her most ‘freeing’ yet.

Steal is a new six-episode heist thriller that sees ordinary office worker Zara (Sophie) get caught up in the heist of the century.

Premiering on Amazon Prime Video on January 21, the drama follows Zara after a gang of violent thieves storm her office in London, forcing her and her best friend Luke (Archie Madekwe) to execute their demands to steal billions of pounds from people’s pensions.

Ahead of the launch, Metro spoke to Sophie, Archie and their co-star Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, who plays DCI Rhys, a detective struggling with a gambling addiction.

Rhys, who’s tasked with investigating the crime, discovers a series of hidden agendas as the pulse-racing plot unfolds.

Sophie, who’s due to play Lara Croft in the upcoming Amazon Prime TV adaptation, detailed how Steal will have fans ‘hooked from the start’.

When she first read the script, the 29-year-old was taken aback by how ‘grounded in truth’ the characters came across on the page, as the story emphasises ‘how multifaceted people can be and [how] no one’s black or white’.

‘It’s like they’re all so grey and I think it makes the series more exciting because it does feel real and and and they’re also, all of them, very unpredictable,’ she continued.

‘That’s what kept me hooked reading it… what these guys are going to do.’

The former Game of Thrones star, who has also recently starred in series like The Staircase, Joan and the film Do Revenge, described Zara as one of the most ‘freeing’ characters she’s played yet, despite being ‘stressful’.

‘Zara is quite a wild child, and a bit unpredictable, and she just kind of falls to the wall, and I really liked that about her. So she was fun for me,’ she said.

Archie, who previously starred in Midsommar, found playing Luke ‘overwhelming’ at times’, as there was ‘so much panicking’ involved.

‘He’s constantly crying, understandably, probably. I would,’ the 30-year-old admitted.

‘Even though it was warranted and in the scenes it was fun, it was quite exhausting, and he’s running constantly. So it was tiring, actually.’

The Gran Turismo star, who shot to fame in Emerald Fennell’s 2023 Saltburn, also revealed how ‘complex’ the story becomes.

‘Everything’s so tied up in a knot… they’ve tried so hard to get themselves out of the situation they’re in,’ he said.

‘They’re so tightly wound. It becomes so complex and complicated, and they’re jumping through holes trying to undo the mess that they’ve made.

‘That is the thing that’s still so compelling and exciting because it feels so deeply human. We’ve all got secrets and demons, some more than others, so it’s exciting to see them played out.

Wolf Hall star Jacob conducted detailed research to play the troubled DCI Rhys.

The 37-year-old, who has starred in Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, met with a former DCI in murder investigations in London, as well as a professional poker player, for inspiration.

He felt a great sense of ‘relief’ that his role was not just a one-dimensional police character.

‘We love police and detectives in this country, and I have played a detective before, but I was relieved to see some unusual stuff,’ he tells me.

‘There’s the poker addiction, which is an interesting angle, and there’s also the fact that his name’s Kovac, he’s got Romanian heritage… it adds a nice new layer.

‘It gives him a push for why he has to work so hard and prove himself.’

Overall, the end result for Jacob playing a ‘ruthless, cold, calculated’ character was ‘very cool’.

But for each of the characters, one of the biggest challenges was learning the ‘complex language’ of fraud terms and police.

‘To make that sing when you are just not accustomed to that language, that’s challenging,’ he concludes.

Steal premieres on Amazon Prime on January 21.

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