Is Cersei Lannister really pregnant? It’s just one of a mother-tonne of questions Game of Thrones fans have had going into season eight and now it’s been confirmed that the Queen of The Seven Kingdoms is actually telling the truth.
Back in the episode Eastwatch, Cersei told her brother-turned-lover Jaime that she was carrying their fourth child before he went on to strike a deal with Tyrion, using the unborn baby as bate.
But this is Cersei, and naturally with every huge bombshell to fall out of her mouth comes with an explosion of doubt.
Well, a number of scripts from the fantasy epic have been made available at the Writers Guild of America West’s library, revealing a few details which weren’t immediately obvious on screen.
Among them, the Eastwatch script couldn’t be clearer when it confirms that Cersei was in fact telling the truth all along.
When Cersei reveals her pregnancy to Jaime, the notes read: ‘She nods, it’s true… Her happiness is contagious. They get another chance at family. This time with no one standing in their way.’
Later, during a conversation between Cersei and Tyrion, the script adds: ‘Tyrion sees what he sees and knows what it means. He can hardly believe it, but knows it to be true…
‘She stays silent for too long, long enough to tell him that he’s right. And once she knows he knows, she can think of nothing else to say.’
So, for better or worse, there is another Lannister child on the way and Lord have mercy on us all.
Game of Thrones returns to Sky Atlantic and HBO in April 2019.
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