Lena Headey's controversial statements about 'Game of Thrones'

The actress, who played Cersei Lannister in the series, confessed that she did not like the outcome of her character and told how the scene was that she was removed from the montage of the final season.

A month has passed since the final chapter of Game of Thrones that left most of its fans dissatisfied, and actress Lena Headey, who played Cersei Lannister, continues to surprise with her statements about the outcome of the HBO series.

In a recent interview for The Guardian, Headey showed her displeasure at the end of her character in the show's penultimate episode, who died entombed alongside her brother Jaime Lannister in the Red Keep during the battle. of King's Landing.

"I will say that I wanted a better death," the interpreter commented to the aforementioned medium. "You obviously dream of your death. So I was a bit disappointed," she admitted to herself. "I think they (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) couldn't please everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be a big comedown from being at the top," she added.

In another interview with Entertainment Weekly, Headey revealed that her initial reaction to the character's final scene later changed when talking about it with Coster-Waldau, 48.

Resigned to his fate, the mortally wounded Jaime spoke his last words to Cersei as the walls around him crumble: "Nothing else matters, only us."

"The more we talked about it, the more it seemed like the perfect ending for her. They came into the world together and now they're leaving together," explained Headey, who still maintains contact with several of the actors, or "throners" as he calls them, referring to the group. of WhatsApp they have.

A pregnancy that never ended up being clear if it really existed

On the other hand, Headey told for the first time about a deleted scene and that she -in her own words- she could have changed the history of her character. "We shot a scene that never made it into season seven where I lost the baby," the actress revealed. "It was very traumatic and a big moment for Cersei and she never got to see it."

Ultimately, fans are left without a full explanation of Cersei's mysterious pregnancy as the doomed lovers meet her fate, but Headey admitted that she "loved" the deleted scene and felt she would have "changed things." .

"We're not exactly sure what made the show's creators scrap the scene, but we can't say it's not interesting to at least think about how that moment may have changed things," the 47-year-old British actress concluded during a recent interview. appearance at the comic convention in Germany.