Lena Headey Also Isn't a Fan of How Cersei Bit the Dust on Game of Thrones
Cersei Lannister went out, quite literally, with a whimper. Played by Lena Headey, Games of Thrones's first queen—who firebombed her own family, ordered her zombie bodyguard to literally rip the heads off her opponents, and most remarkably managed to make a cropped haircut look imperious and terrifying—met her end off-screen under a pile of rubble. It was an unceremonious death for the show's smirking top villainess.
And apparently Lena Headey feels the same. In a new interview in The Guardian, reporter Andrew Anthony tried to get Headey to weigh in on complaints that the writing in the show's final season took a sharp nose dive. She didn't take the bait, but she did concede that there was one big thing she wasn't thrilled with: "I will say I wanted a better death."
From The Guardian:
"Obviously you dream of your death," she says. "You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted. But I just think they couldn’t have pleased everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be some big comedown from the climb."
Characters on the show have been disemboweled, beheaded, burned to death with molten gold, and crossbowed on the toilet. Actually being gutted would have been a much more creative and satisfying death than being smushed under a single layer of masonry.
Headey has a point that, with such a large fan base and dramatically high expectations, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were bound to frustrate some viewers. But then again, regardless of how she went out, there are worse ways to make $1.2 million an episode.
Originally Appeared on GQ
