Celebrity can often outweigh talent when it comes to landing roles in Hollywood, and the recent audition experience of “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner is another example of this — according to her.

Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the hit HBO show, told Porter magazine that she won a role over a “far better” actress for a project because she had a “big social-media following,” according to The Telegraph.

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Turner’s online audience includes 5.4 million followers on Instagram, 1.4 million on Twitter, and 2.1 million on Facebook.

“A lot of what I have achieved is about timing and luck, but it is also, and I hate to say it, about a big social-media following,” Turner told the print-only magazine.

“I auditioned for a project, and it was between me and another girl who is a far better actress than I am, far better, but I had the followers, so I got the job,” she said. “It’s not right, but it is part of the movie industry now.”
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Though Turner didn’t name the project in question, she is set to appear in four films over the next two years, including “Berlin, I Love You,” “Huntsville,” “Time Freak,” and a reprisal of her role as Jean Grey in “X-Men: Dark Phoenix.”

We must note, however, that while Turner is speaking to a truth in Hollywood, she’s also being modest. She has given a spectacular performance as Sansa Stark in “Game of Thrones,” especially in the later seasons.