With a new HBO show, The Staircase, and a second baby on the way, 2022 is set to be Sophie Turner’s year. She tells Lottie Lumsden how she found her way.
‘I was gunning for Cardi B to walk me down the aisle,’ Sophie Turner says, reminiscing about her wedding to Joe Jonas three years ago. In case you missed her friend Diplo live-streaming the ceremony on Instagram, it was conducted by an Elvis impersonator in a Vegas chapel after the Billboard Music Awards. Turner might have failed in her mission to get fellow attendee Cardi to join her, but that didn’t dampen the party atmosphere on the night. ‘We went around inviting random people we’d met at the awards and were like, “You can come, you can come…” It was so wild. So fun. So awesome!’
Cut to today and Turner is talking to me from her hotel room in New York, where she is staying with her now-husband and their one-year-old daughter. The family are in New York for 24 hours as Jonas is appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show. Tomorrow, they’ll fly back to their home in Miami.
‘I used to be so rock ’n’ roll and spontaneous,’ she fake sighs. ‘I’m sure there’s a part of me that’s still like that, deep down. But becoming a mum, you just become way less cool. I’m like an old woman.’
When we speak, via video call, Turner’s long auburn hair is tied into two low pigtails that fall either side of her face and onto a blue hoodie that covers a blooming baby bump. She is pregnant with her second child and lights up at the mention of it. ‘It’s what life is about for me – raising the next generation,’ she says, smiling. ‘The greatest thing in life is seeing my daughter go from strength to strength. We’re so excited to be expanding the family. It’s the best blessing ever.’
Now that the couple’s first daughter is nearly two, I wonder if she understands that she’s about to become a big sister. ‘I don’t think so,’ Turner says. ‘I’ll point to my stomach and say, “What’s in there?” And she’ll go, “Baby”. But then she points to her own stomach and says, “Baby”, and then she’ll point to her dad’s tummy and say, “Baby”. So, I think she just thinks that a belly is a baby and that’s the name for it. But she is a lot clingier than normal, so I think she has an idea. She wants Mummy all of the time – she’s claiming her territory.’
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