"Sophie Turner has a screwball comedy vibe in real life elegant trouser suit, arch but friendly expression, perfect hair, she looks ready for some whipsmart repartee and a sundowner. She seems very comfortable in her own skin, which is unusual anyway when you're not quite 30, but especially incongruous given her various screen personas: first, in Game of Thrones."
"Six seasons in, arguably at peak GoT impact, she became Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse, a role she reprised in 2019 for Dark Phoenix, action-studded and ram-jammed with superpowers. Now she's the lead in Steal, a Prime Video drama about a corporate heist, though that makes it sound quite desk and keyboard-based when, in fact, it is white-knuckle tense and alarmingly paced."
"It's a first-time screenplay by novelist Sotiris Nikias (who writes crime under a pseudonym, Ray Celestin), and it feels original, not so much in the action and hyperviolence as in the trade-offs it refuses to make: whatever explosions are going on, however much chasing around a dystopian pension-fund investment office, you still wouldn't call it an action drama."
Sophie Turner projects a confident, screwball-comedy energy off-screen while carrying a varied screen history from Sansa Stark to Jean Grey. She headlines Steal, a Prime Video drama that frames a corporate heist as a white-knuckle, alarmingly paced thriller. Villains operate like a malevolent swarm and the film keeps motivations and identities deliberately ambiguous. The screenplay by Sotiris Nikias refuses conventional trade-offs, blending novelistic character detail with violent set pieces. The film feels original in tone rather than purely action-driven. The centerpiece is Turner's portrayal of Zara, an office worker who becomes an anxious, resourceful action protagonist amid high betrayal and stakes.
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