Yahoo News Game of Thrones: Lena Headey teases season seven
With HBO’s epic sixth season of ‘Game of Thrones’ concluding this week, attention (for those who’ve seen it, of course) is now firmly on season seven which will air in April, 2017.
***Warning: Season 6, episode 10 spoilers to follow***
While speaking to the Entertainment Weekly, Lena Headey, the actress who plays evil villainess Cersei Lannister, was eagerly to tease us all with what to expect in the upcoming season of the fantasy show.
With episode 10 concluding after a mountain of bloodshed and destruction, largely at the hands of recently crowned Queen Cersei, there’s every indication that she’s gone the way of the Mad King - you know, the one Jaime heroically killed to prevent from firebombing the city (like Cersei, his lover, has just done), thus gaining the infamous nickname of Kingslayer.
Her character’s insane reign of tyranny is acknowledged by Headey, who reckons “never again will anybody do anything to me that I don’t want to happen.”
“ I’m left to wonder who’s going to take her down. She may only be there for a second. It’s a moment of punctuation in the madness.”.
And while Cersei reigns for a short or long time, she’s certainly got a powerful army behind her, not to mention the terrifying, zombified Ser Gregor (aka The Mountain) at her obedient side.
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Headey revealed her reaction to hearing about Daenerys Targarygen’s fleet setting sail for Westeros and theinevitable destination of King’s Landing:
“I got goosebumps reading ‘The ships are coming.’ I have to assume there’s going to be one helluva battle.”
Whether that’s her way of hinting at what’s to come in the seventh season (having read future scripts, perhaps?) or if it’s just the feeling she gets, is debatable.
Yet with Daenerys’ arrival in Westeros also comes her trusty and newly appointed Hand of the Queen, Tyrion. The Lannister brother and sister last saw one another when the imp was wrongly on trial for the murder of her eldest son, the then King Joffrey, who was unspeakably cruel during his time on the Iron Throne.
“I’m as excited as anyone to get Cersei and Tyrion back together. It just works. Those two characters are so interesting because there’s so much hate, yet slight respect too. They’d kill each other if ever given the chance.”
Yet it doesn’t seem that the siblings will be in a position where they’ll be able to converse - not civilly at least - with one another because season seven looks like it’s going to be all-out war once the combined armies of the Unsullied and the Greyjoys arrive to take King’s Landing.
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With the way things are lined up, all signs point towards Cersei’s reign of terror coming to a bloody, end, but Headey’s happy for one of two people to put her out of her misery:
“I’ve always said that when it happens, as long as it’s kinda glorious and gory and it’s by the right person… Tyrion would be interesting… No one would relish her death as much as he would.”
However, with she’s receives her prophecy in an earlier flashback as a child from Maggy the Frog, Cersei’s told that a Valonqar (translated form Valyrian means ‘little brother’) will strangle the life out of her. Could this be an indication that Jaime will do the deed at some point?
How do you think next season will pan out? Will Cersei finally get her comeuppance?
Mike P Williams is a freelance TV, film and entertainment writer, with an obsession for all things Game of Thrones, Jurassic Park and Pixar. Over the years he’s written for the likes of MTV, Total Film, BuzzFeed, and Yahoo Movies UK.
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