Game Of Thrones star Carice van Houten says Melisandre’s story was a ‘mystery’ to her.
The actress found it ‘really hard’ not knowing where her character going or what her prophecies, such as that strange necklace, would amount to.
But ever the professional she learned to go with the flow and eventually ‘enjoyed’ not having all the answers.
In an interview with The Wrap she was asked how she felt playing a character with a backstory that the audience knew next to nothing about.
She said: ‘I really like to figure everything out — that’s mostly how I work, and I ask a load of questions normally. But in this case that was really hard.
‘There are books, but I didn’t want to trust in those, so I stuck to the scripts.
‘But every time I wanted to know something about what was going to happen, they couldn’t tell me much. So she was quite a bit of a mystery to me as well. I learned to enjoy not knowing.’
Carice’s time in the final season was short-lived, but the star said she was ‘very flattered’ with how the Red Woman’s story ended.
She said: ‘It gave me goosebumps when I read it, and it was the same when I saw it on screen.
‘I thought it was a very elegant, beautiful ending to a bombastic, dark, violent episode. And I was very flattered that I was the last piano notes of a bombastic symphony.’
Carice was one of three Game Of Thrones stars who put themselves forward for Emmy nominations last month and happily it paid off.
The HBO show apparently didn’t put her and co-stars Gwendoline Christie and Alfie Allen forward into this year’s awards for their season eight performances – so they backed themselves.
Game Of Thrones is available to watch on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV.
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