Sophie Turner on chaotic Spotify playlist and new heist series 'Steal'

Sophie Turner spoke from London about a chaotic Spotify playlist she listens to all day and about her role as Zara in Steal, a new limited series streaming on Prime Video. Turner said Sam Miller hooked her with an elevator pitch of “What makes good people do bad things?” and that the show’s examination of the uncontrollable cost-of-living, the wage gap and familial alcoholism appealed to her.

She described Zara as an office worker who becomes “a bit of a mess” and who is drawn into a 4-billion-pound heist at a London investment firm that leaves her running from both the thieves and MI5. Turner said Steal got her adrenaline pumping ahead of her next collaboration as the archaeologist Lara Croft in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s reboot of Tomb Raider, and that she is looking forward to turning 30, saying the past year has helped her find her footing.

She described her Spotify playlist as “One minute it’s playing Ludovico Einaudi, and then the next minute it’s playing stuff from the ’60s or two days ago.” In edited excerpts from the conversation, Turner also talked about items and interests that energize her: a Lumie sunrise lamp to wake before dawn, Instacart, an obsession with the British Museum’s Ancient Egypt collection and the book Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L.

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