Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) is out there getting her press on ahead of the last season of Game of Thrones. She recently stopped by Live with Kelly and Ryan to talk about the show’s final table read, on-set shenanigans, hand gestures, and more:
“I liked the stuff I did with Charles Dance, who played my dad,” Headey said when asked about her favorite scenes from the show. We can confirm that the scenes between Cersei and Tywin were excellent. She also enjoyed working with Peter Dinklage (Tyrion) and Conleth Hill (Varys). “It’s all been glorious. The main thing was all the stairs all over King’s Landing are really slippery, so the outtakes are just full of all of us going ‘uughhyh’!”
Look out for that on the season 8 boxset.
Headey also revealed what she took from the season 8 set. The likes of Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner have talked about their own keepsakes. What of Cersei’s did Headey simply have to have?
I didn’t take anything…I just couldn’t wait to get the wig off. I was like, ‘Yeeeesss!’ I never have to wear it again!
Man, she really hated that short bob turnip wig.
Headey gave a more extensive interview to Rich Eisen of The Rich Eisen Show. Let’s run through some of the highlights:
- Naturally, Headey kept tight-lipped about what’s going to happen in season 8, but she did reveal the cast member most likely to spill the beans. “You could get anything out of Kit [Harington]…You could just butter him up with a bit of booze. Get him sozzled and he’ll tell you everything.”
- She confirms that her last day of shooting wasn’t the last day of shooting, but that doesn’t matter, “because we don’t shoot in any order.”
- “To play the bad guy is just such good fun. I can do all the things I can’t really do in my life.”
- What did Headey think when she got the script for the first-ever episode of Game of Thrones? “No one will ever watch this.” Apparently, shooting the pilot was a low-budget affair. “You just go make it, like, in a tent in the cold, and we were like ‘What are we doing’?” But of course, it was a hit, and it grew it from there, and here we are.
- Game of Thrones, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss let Headey what Cersei would be up to pretty far into the future. “I knew up until the walk of shame,” she said.
“That was the beginning to the end and I didn’t know beyond that.”
Headey will return as Cersei on April 14. Until then, you can see her as the matriarch of a family of wrestlers in Fighting With My Family, in theaters now.
All hail the queen.
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