Maisie Williams said she once paid a witch on Etsy about £16.50 to help land a film role, but the spell did not work. The 29-year-old said that was the end of her one and only experiment with witchcraft, even as she prepares to appear in Practical Magic 2.
£16.50 and no refund
“I wanted it so badly that I went on to Etsy, and I paid a witch to manifest me the role,” Williams said of the audition. She added, “It didn’t work, and that was where my days of witchcraft ended.”
She also said, “It was maybe, like, £16.50? Which is not going to break the bank, but good for her. Good for her, to be making money doing nothing!” The line is the sharpest part of the anecdote: the payment was small, but the attempt tells you how far she was willing to go for a part.
Practical Magic 2 and Antonia
Williams will appear in Practical Magic 2 as Antonia, the youngest daughter of Sandra Bullock’s Sally Owens. That puts her inside a franchise built around Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, while also giving her a new screen role after seven years that included The New Mutants, Pistol, and The New Look.
For Williams, the story lands as a career snapshot: the actor who became famous at age 12 for Arya Stark in Game of Thrones is now trading on a different kind of screen identity. The Etsy spell failed, but the casting did not; the practical outcome is the role in Practical Magic 2, not the manifesting advice she paid for.
Hannah Murray in London
The complication is that Williams no longer reads signs the same way. She said she used to think patterns in daily life meant everything would work out, but reading Hannah Murray’s memoir The Make-Believe changed that after Murray described a psychotic episode and a later bipolar disorder diagnosis.
“I knew something was going on, but I didn’t know it was that,” Williams said. “I felt really upset with myself for not asking sooner.” She added, “I used to indulge in the whimsy of the patterns of the universe and think, ‘Oh, it’s a sign that everything’s going to work out.’”
That makes the witch anecdote feel less like a quirky confession and more like a record of how she used to think. Williams said she was listening to Slayyyter on the walk to the interview, had two jewellery fittings, an important producing meeting, and lunch with Hannah Murray in London the same day — a very ordinary schedule for someone once willing to outsource fate to Etsy.
