Natalie Dormer has said that Game Of Thrones producers prepared her for her character’s death for a year.
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Natalie’s character Margaery Tyrell met a wildfire-y end in season six of the HBO show.
The actress was told of Margaery’s demise a year before it played out on screen, and although she wasn’t happy about it, she said she had an ‘advantage’ over other cast members as she knew when her time was up in advance.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, she said: ‘I sort of got ahead of the game because I was badgering the creatives a year before to release me for a couple of dates, you know how shooting schedules can be overlapping.
‘I was trying to get a movie made, I was trying to get my movie that I made with my other half. At the time, they wouldn’t release me from Game of Thrones.
‘So Dan and David, the creatives of the show, said “sorry Nat, we’re not going to release you, you’re going to have to shoot next year, but don’t worry darling, we’re killing you next year.”
‘It wasn’t that harsh, I’m paraphrasing, but they thought they were giving me good news. They were, it was bittersweet. I had the unique position over a lot of cast members, as in I knew when my time was coming…’
Her fellow guests Jack De and Rag ‘N’ Bone man were behind on the show, so Jonathan kitted them out with headphones so they could avoid spoilers.
Natalie said she was happy not to have to keep show spoilers secret any more and go back to being a ‘pure fan’.
‘It’s great now because I don’t know anymore. I’m gone, so I have no idea. So I’m watching season seven the way everyone else is watching season seven. I’ve gone back to just being a pure fan, the way I was the first season I watched it, and I love not knowing,’ she said.
The Jonathan Ross show returns September 9 at 9.15pm on ITV.
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