Actors are free to have their own interpretations on their character, but ultimately it's the showrunners who decide what the characters do and think. Actors can be very wrong about their characters. Charleton Heston didn't know that Ben-Hur is gay.
Margaery's nice to Sansa because she wants her as an ally in court. If she's willing to press the flesh among the orphans, why not a noble lady about to become her aunt-in-law? She's also nice to Joffrey when she fawns over his crossbow and talks about how amazing it must feel to kill things. Clearly she's willing to say and do things that she doesn't mean or feel if it makes the right people like her. So she is disingenuous. Margaery knows that she's good at being nice and uses it in a very calculated fashion. People who are spoiled sweet don't use niceness as a weapon. They're just nice people.
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Margaery's entry for Spoiled Sweet has been removed, and I just wanted to know if it's a general consensus that someone who is ambitious can't be nice. For instance, in the books Margaery and her female cousins shun Sansa once she is no longer betrothed to Willas, but on the series, Margaery tries to comfort Sansa and give the girl advice on how to cope with her marriage to Tyrion. If TV!Margaery is truly heartless, I don't think she would bother to be kind to Sansa.
Natalie Dormer herself has this to say about her character ( http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/game-of-thrones-q-a-natalie-dormer-on-playing-the-kate-middleton-of-westeros-20130401
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"It doesn't mean she's insincere. People can be quite cruel, I find, about Margaery: "Oh, she's another malicious, calculating character who's after the Throne." But I don't think in regards with her attitude to the public and her attitude to Sansa – she's not disingenuous. I don't see the two as mutually exclusive, as modern politicians themselves would say. I think she has a heart. I think she can be very sincere. I just think she's a pragmatist."
Although it's true in the novels that Tyrells were the ones who created the food shortage in King's Landing, this is never mentioned on the TV show. In fact, Tyrion squarely blames the famine on Joffrey after they escape the riot, not the Tyrells. I get the impression that the writers have given the Tyrells a slight Adaptational Heroism.
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