Game of Thrones’ star for cyber-bullying drama

 

 

U.K. actress, Maisie Wil­liams, aka Arya Stark from HBO’s Game of Thrones, is set to play a victim of cyber-bullying in a new real-time thriller commissioned by U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 and an­nounced Thursday.

Inspired by dozens of real-life cases, Cyber Bully is due to air next year and will follow in the same format as recent feature film, Locke, taking place in one single location. Williams will star as Casey Jacobs, a teenage girl battling with an anony­mous internet stalker.
“The audience will be trapped with Casey for a full screen hour and we need an exceptional actress to play her,” said BAFTA award-winning di­rector, Ben Chanan, “I couldn’t imag­ine anyone else in the role. Maisie Williams is not only remarkably talented, she also has an immediately likeable, feisty screen presence which makes you root for her instinctively.”