When filming on the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones was over, Maisie Williams knew she wanted to do something dramatic to her hair.

The urge is real. If you’ve inhabited one character for the better part of a decade – and that character has your face and your hair – then in order to shed their skin you might need to change something about the way you look. Both Emma Watson and Jennifer Lawrence cut their long hair short at the conclusion of their most famous franchises Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. Emilia Clarke, too, cropped her hair into a pixie cut at the end of Game of Thrones.

Maisie Williams just used her hair transformation to make a point about mental health