Sophie Turner Likes Her Men Like She Likes Her Spritzes: Light and Bubbly (2024)

Sophie Turner is just living life, baby.

Freshly back in her native England, leading a hot new crime series, and embracing the joie de vivre of a French-girl summer, the actor has teamed up with St-Germain to star in a sexy new short film celebrating the alcohol brand’s seasonal It co*cktail, the Hugo Spritz.

On a warm morning in June, looking striking in a breezy butter-yellow sundress and black shades, Turner strolls into a white beachfront castle in the South of France, ready for her close-up—and her drink.

“What do a spritz and I have in common? Well, we’re both pretty flirty,” Turner tells me with her big, contagious smile. “We’re bubbly, sweet. I think refreshing—I hope I’m refreshing—and not too overpowering.”

St-Germain is crafted from wild, hand-picked elderflowers. For the spritz, the liqueur is mixed with sparkling wine, soda water, lime, and mint leaves.

In the film, Turner flirts with a handsome French bartender and jokes about needing something “different” in her life—something “fresh, fun.” Her recent split from Joe Jonas is not mentioned, but the underlying context certainly adds to the dry humor Turner has become known for. The brightness she brings to the part—even as she’s joking about her own life—is also apparent in her attitude as we chat. “Would you say you like your men like you like your spritzes?” I joke. “Oh, yeah, that’s exactly how I like my men,” she says with a wink.

She is magnetic, sarcastic, and cool as a cucumber.

“Honestly, what my life looks like these days is what an Hugo Spritz tastes like,” she says. “I’m kind of embracing this lighter, fresher kind of energy around me.”

The past year truly has brought on a glow-up for the Game of Thrones alum, who has taken leaps in her career—with at least five TV and film projects currently in the works—found romance with British aristocrat Peregrine Pearson, and joined Taylor Swift’s star-studded girl squad. “I’m 1989 every time, baby—that album doesn’t get old,” Turner tells me when I ask her which Swift era she’s in. “Although The Tortured Poets Department really has a nice grip on me at the moment,” she adds.

Turner was among the thousands who attended the pop star’s Eras Tour shows in London this June—an “amazing, incredible” experience she shared with her close group of girlfriends—and it’s only one of the highlights from her summer, which she says she’s so far spent “having barbecues and co*cktails” with her pals.

“My recipe for a hot-girl summer is pretty much playing with my kids (Willa, three, and Delphine, one), hanging out with my best friends, drinking some co*cktails—you know, which ones—and enjoying the sun, long may it last. As long as the sun’s out, I’m a happy chap,” Turner says, looking, indeed, like a happy chap.

A couple of weekends ago, Turner shared photos from a dreamy picnic she enjoyed at Pearson’s West Sussex estate. The scene looked straight out of The Sound of Music, with Turner sitting on a cozy blanket in a grassy field covered with flowers, looking lovely in a green-and-white gingham peasant blouse and high-waisted blue jeans (plus her cool-girl black Ray-Bans).

“My summer aesthetic is the three Cs: cool, chic, and comfy. I don’t want any underboob sweat,” Turner says. “I’ve been going on Depop a lot. That’s where I get most of my clothes now. It's sustainable, but it’s actually quite unhealthy because now I scroll through it like a person would scroll through Instagram; it’s equally addicting, and it sets me up for bankruptcy.”

Turner has notably stepped up her fashion game in recent months, having wowed at Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2024 show in Paris in the most high-waisted striped pants we’ve ever seen, and a few months later, in a belted bubblegum-pink pantsuit at the house’s 2025 Cruise Show in Barcelona.

“I love all fashion. I don’t think there’s really anything that I wouldn’t do,” she admits. “Like, I’ve said in the past, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do low-waisted jeans,’ and now they’re back in fashion. I think you can’t go wrong with how you express yourself.”

If she could swap wardrobes with any of her past onscreen characters, Turner doesn’t hesitate: It would be Sansa Stark. “I would take all of it. I literally have never felt more powerful in my life than when I was wearing the costumes,” she says. “You’d wear them just, like, on the street?” I ask of the armorlike costumes and massive fur coats she wore in the series. “Yeah, just on the street,” she says with a smirk. “In London, no one would blink an eye.”

Turner got a very different fashion makeover to film her new show Joan, in which she plays notorious London diamond thief Joan Hannington. “I got to play with really fun ’80s clothes and ’80s personas and makeup and hair, and it was an absolute blast,” she says. “It was such a treat as an actor.”

Turner read Hannington’s biography “at least three or four times,” and even met with “The Godmother” herself to fully get into character. The entire experience was tailor-made for the actor, who, as everyone in her close circle knows, is a sucker for a crime drama.

“Oh God, I fall asleep to crime podcasts every single night,” Turner admits. “My friends, if I’m having sleepovers with them, they’ll just get so freaked out by me because they wake up in the middle of the night and it’s like, ‘And then he stabbed her!’ I love it. I love crime. I love anything to do with it. So, making a crime show was such a dream for me.”

Turner’s Hollywood résumé does lean heavily into action-packed drama, but, I note, her St-Germain film showed such a different side of her, or rather, more of her actual funny, sassy, quirky personality—ideal for, let’s say, a romantic comedy.

“The fun part about this campaign was it was kind of an ode to the early-2000s rom-com, and I was so excited to do it because it’s something that I haven’t done and I would love to do,” she says. “I’ve only done one comedy, and it was like a cameo, and I had the best time, so really, to any casting directors that read this: I really want to do a rom-com!”

As for her dream love interest? Billie Eilish. “You know what I thought? There was a show [2023’s Swarm] that Billie Eilish guest-starred in and she was really good, and I think a queer rom-com with me and her would be great,” Turner says. Netflix, you heard her!