Cersei so sad as Game finishes

IT’S not only Game of Thrones fans who are struggling with the new season — which premieres today — being the beloved drama’s last.

Lena Headey, pictured, who plays the badass but glamorous Cersei Lannister, Queen of King’s Landing and the Seven Kingdoms, wasn’t even remotely ready to hang up her crown.

“I was very angry about it finishing. I thought we could have done three more seasons,” the 45- year- old said.

Regarded as the toughest woman on the show, Cersei is arguably also its most complicated.

“In the beginning, people thought Cersei was very twodimensional,” Headey said.

“They were like, ‘She’s just the bad guy,’ but then they realised that there are layers of vulnerability.

“She’s highly duplicitous and ferocious in her desire to survive but people have realised over time, ‘ Oh, I see she’s more than the wicked witch.’”

And who is Cersei to Headey? “She’s a flawed woman desperate to keep hold of her powerful position as queen. But she hasn’t leaked into me.”

She chuckled: “Well, maybe sometimes when I’m furious with my children.”

The women of GoT have become iconic for myriad reasons, but primarily because of their fierce, take-no-prisoners attitude.

As a result, they have had a huge effect on the landscape for women in television.

“GoT changed things,” Headey said.

“It’s been a real kick-starter for great roles for women in television, but it didn’t start off like that. In the beginning people said the show was terribly misogynistic and blah, blah, blah,” she said, rolling her eyes.

“But actually through great writing, those opinions changed.”

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