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Sophie Turner’s breakout function as Sansa Stark on the hit fantasy sequence Game of Thrones made the British actress a family identify. And whereas the HBO present continues to be binge-worthy years after its finale, Turner is watching one thing somewhat lighter when she’s in flight. “If I’m not sleeping, any Real Housewives—I’m binging the whole way. You have to watch it!” she mentioned, itemizing the Salt Lake City franchise as her favourite, although she’s additionally keen on Potomac and Beverly Hills. Turner sat down with Travel + Leisure to speak about her different journey necessities (past the Real Housewives), her jet lag hacks, and her favourite filming location.

Though the Emmy-winning Game of Thrones led to 2019 after eight globe-trotting seasons, Turner’s love of taking pictures in stunning, far-flung places has endured. She has gone on to star in lots of movies, together with “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” (2019) and “The Dreadful” (2024), requiring her to journey all around the world. For Turner, one location nonetheless stands out: Iceland (one in all many notable Game of Thrones filming places). “I just found Iceland absolutely astonishingly beautiful, like the landscape with northern lights. It’s also that I shot there in the summer when there’s something like 22 hours of light, and it was a very bizarre experience. It was just beautiful.” As for different dream filming places, she would like to work on one thing in Norway. “I’ve never been to Norway, and I would just love to go there. I just think it looks beautiful.”

So, how does she survive an intense journey schedule usually full of lengthy flights? Her moisturizer (“my Weleda Skin Food”) and a dip within the closest physique of water, she informed T+L. “Whether it’s a bath, a pool, an ice bath, whatever it may be. I think it just calms my system down. It also really helps me with jet lag as well. I’m a Pisces, so I just need to be in water. It’s like a rejuvenation. It feeds my soul.” For resort swimming pools, she recommends the Corinthia Hotel in London, however she additionally loves swimming out within the open, like when she went to Egypt final 12 months and hopped into her new favourite physique of water. “We were on the River Nile, and we all jumped off the boat [into the river], and I think that was probably my favorite.”

Another journey should for Turner? Immediately ordering room service when she checks into her resort room. “Listen, my go-to order will always be spaghetti with butter and cheese. Kids food, man, it’s the best!” the mom of two mentioned with fun. Though she orders off the kids’s menu, she does the very grownup factor of instantly unpacking after her room service meal—each routines assist with a way of normalcy. 

Her ultimate journey staple? A Hugo spritz. “It absolutely is the spirit of travel,” Turner mentioned. She is such a fan of the cocktail that she has partnered with St-Germain for the second 12 months in a row on a brand new marketing campaign known as “Sip Into Something Fresher.”  “I can have it anywhere, any time of day. It could be morning, evening, whatever. There’s no bounds on where I drink it,” she mentioned, noting she would love airways to begin making this drink a part of their cocktail packages.

The marketing campaign touts the St-Germain Hugo spritz because the official cocktail of summer time, and the model could have activations in St. Tropez and Cannes. The South of France holds a particular place in Turner’s coronary heart. “I’ve spent a lot of time there. Actually, I got married there [to ex-husband Joe Jonas]. I’ve got a lot of great memories there, and I really love it. I love the landscape, I love the people, I love the food, I love the drink. I just think it’s such a romantic, beautiful, idyllic place.”