15-year-old Bella Ramsey, star of Game of Thrones, talks about juggling GCSEs and white walkers

The Game of Thrones star, Bella Ramsey, was sitting on movie sets, solving math problems while she juggled with the school of her flourishing actress career.

The 15-year-old, who delighted the audience with her intrepid image of Lyanna Mormont in the gigantic HBO series, opened up about her difficulty balancing her education and catapult in the public eye at an old age. so young.

Coming from battle scenes, still covered with blood and blood, Bella was sneaking into study sessions via the Interhigh online school platform.

The actress would brave the English understanding between the shots of this gigantic white who crushed his character or beating a broom in the role of Mildred Hubble in The Worst Witch of CBBC.

"Math is a bit my favorite. I would have math problems every day, "she said, explaining how flexible education systems are" always an option "for those who have the same difficulty with traditional schools.

Bella told Standard that she had left school after feeling that "everyone had been put in a box".

"There was no room for customization," she added. "As an actor, I like it because every take, I try to make it a little different."

In fact, Bella said that she tends to get away from anything that is repetitive, which may have fueled her discord with the traditional school.

When she has a little spare time outside of her hectic shooting days, the 15-year-old girl oscillates between cooking, painting, music and football.

Even when it comes to baking, she said, "I always try to create something new. I just do not like to repeat things.

Bella was in 6th grade when she was chosen to play Game of Thrones – her first actor role on screen – but trouble at school followed as she had to keep her casting secret.

"Everyone was intrigued by what I was doing and everything about it," she said, "but I did not have the right to tell anyone, especially because Lyanna was a new character. .

"Other people started taking it the wrong way. I tried to explain that I had to sign something and that I was not only difficult, I was not allowed to say it. "

But then everyone has discovered. Before shooting the series in Year 7, the star said that she had suddenly become "popular for all the wrong reasons".

"I was not at all popular in seventh grade," she added. "I just did not care about social expectations. I was just myself.

"I hoped that it could continue and I wanted it to not change anything at school, but it really affected him both in terms of education and friendships. "

When asked how she made the decision to go to school at home, Bella replied "a lot of little things have piled up", but the final straw was a bad one experience with a teacher.

She was in a music lesson learning the trumpet and all her clbadmates were ahead of her because of the school she had missed during filming.

"The teacher has somehow humiliated me," she said. "That's what made him rock and ifthe next day I did not return "

After trying to study with traditional home study systems, Bella quickly enrolled in Interhigh, a online school offering courses and schedules on videolink.

Students can see the teacher, but not each other. Bella added that she enjoyed learning about the safety of her home without undisciplined distractions.

"It's incredibly flexible, incredibly accommodating and yet it still structured me, what I need," she says.

"I like it and recommend it to everyone. I think this allows people to be what they really are and this gives them the opportunity to do non-academic things that they like. "

Bella said that students continue to build relationships, through discussions outside of school, share their social media, and even meet in person.

If the 15-year-old misses a scheduled course during filming, Interhigh records the lesson so that she can still catch up.

On some sets, she had a harder time focusing on school work, especially on the set of The Worst Witch.

"I was the main character and I was full, it was a tiring and difficult job and long hours. But I also really want to learn and go to school too and CBBC are very strict with tutoring, which really helped us do it. "

The next step is the GCSE, but Bella keeps an open mind as to how the work will coincide with the exams. This year, she will perform in the biopic of Judy Garland with Renee Zellwegger and in the drama of the Second World War, Resistance with Jesse Eisenberg.

"I have the intention to do my GCSES whenever time permits and you do not need to be 16 years old and do it." Like IIf a job conflicts with my GCSEs, I will choose the job. "

Bella strongly encourages others who do not feel in tune with traditional education to consider systems like Interhigh.

"There are options," she said. "I stopped school mainly because I did not like it, but the work then coincided with that."

"So people with this problem know that there may be a different choice."