Lena Headey found saying goodbye to her Game Of Thrones character Cersei Lannister tougher than she thought it would be after she finished on the final season.
The actress recalled an emotional moment after she left the set for the last time.
Lena just about managed to make it through her last day but when she was on her own it all got a bit too much.
She told Huffington Post: ‘I didn’t think I was going to be emotional. It was [sad] yeah. I thought I wasn’t going to let myself get to that point because I had the last day to get through.
‘And then when I left and I got in the car, I broke down in tears and I was…yeah, devastated.’
But despite the tears after shooting, Lena has previously said that the case were ready to move on from the show.
Saying she was ‘really happy’ with her work on Game Of Thrones, she said: ‘It’s the end. It’s the eighth season, which is bonkers. I feel totally chuffed…’
Speaking on Good Morning America she added: ‘[Chuffed] just means really happy – to have been part of something like that for so long.
‘I think everyone’s ready to kind of do new stuff. But I think until it’s over-over, I won’t know how I feel.’
Lena previously admitted that her final day of shooting was ‘tedious’ as she had to hang around a flight of stairs for most of it.
Of course, the actor refused to go in depth about why Cersei was hanging around a staircase out of fear she would get into trouble with HBO.
In an interview with Variety, Lena said: ‘My last day on set was weirdly very tedious because I just had to shoot going up and down these stairs and that was it.’
When pressed for more details she said: ‘I can’t tell you anything, they’d kill me!’
Game Of Thrones starts 15 April on Sky Atlantic.
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