Bermudan-English actress Lena Headey is famous for playing Cersei Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones from 2011-2019.
Headey’s portrayal of Cersei Lannister earned her acclaim, with nominations for the Scream Award in 2011 and Primetime Emmy Awards from 2014 to 2019.
Even though she got recognition from the character, she admitted that she was not completely happy with the end of her. The actress is also done with GOT after the showrunners couldn’t fulfill the desire, she had for Cersei Lannister.
Lena Headey is Done with Game of Thrones Over Her Unmet Wish
Lena Headey previously said that she wanted more for Cersei in the final season of Game of Thrones. She also suggested that her character could have had a fight scene or a different death.
During an interview on The Hollywood Reporter, Headey was asked, “Did you ever think about what your ideal storyline would have been for your character? And what would that have been?”
She replied that she and Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) would fantasize about a “Cersei and Arya showdown, that she would come back as Jaime.” That was their “big dream,” but the show creators made “different choices.”
It’s understandable according to the showrunners’ perspective, too. The amount of pressure, work, and time involved to figure out how to get this complicated mix of stories. But when asked, does she miss the show? Headey asserted:
“No. I miss the people — because you fall in love with people, and you create these family units. So that takes a little while to go though. There’s a weird grief from those relationships. But I don’t miss it. We did it. We put everything into it. It changed everyone’s fucking world, and we’ll always have it.”
Looks like the actress didn’t miss the work in the series at all, just because of that one wish the creators couldn’t fulfill. She wanted a different ending for her character (for which she put her nose in the grindstone). But despite this, she adores her character so much.
Lena Headey Admires Cersei Lannister’s Resilience and Tenacity
In an interview with the Daily Beast, Headey joked that wearing her cropped blonde wig early in the morning contributed to her character’s “anger.”
Despite the loss of her three children and Jaime leaving her, Cersei stayed determined — to maintain control over the Seven Kingdoms.
While reflecting on the journey the 9 Bullets star has had with her character, the actress said that she “genuinely loves Cersei” and admires the “survivor” that she is. “You just have to admire a survivor like that. She absolutely refuses to let go,” Headey asserted.
