Lena Headey is still on her promotional tour for Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, which opens stateside February 8th. A period film that is a mash up of horror, humor and costume drama, Headey’s character, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, is Elizabeth Bennett’s major nemesis by the end of the story, a fact one can tell from her costume. She’s wearing an eyepatch.
In her latest interview with New York Daily News, she reveals that though she was famously pregnant during the filming of last season’s “Walk of Shame” on Game of Thrones, that wasn’t the only set she found herself filming on while pregnant. Pride + Prejudice + Zombies originally filmed in late 2014/early 2015, by which time Headey was obviously pregnant–though not to the point that they couldn’t hide it.
“It was the early days of my pregnancy and I felt absolutely hideous every day,” she said. “Maybe all this zombie-killing will be in her DNA someday.”
Though Headey hopes her acting career has results on her children someday, she herself thinks living through such a life has been a trip so far. “It’s an interesting trajectory for a woman. I played the young ‘Oh, I love him’ (ingénue). Now, because I’m a tough old hag, I get to play all the tough old bitches. In terms of Hollywood, anything over 40, it’s, ‘Surely she can only play a grandma.’ But I’m also not afraid of that.”
According to her, the biggest blessing of her career has been being cast as Cersei, the role of which has lead to her being cast in any number of things in the last five years–usually in roles that find her standing over corpses plotting.
“I’m so f—–g lucky to be able to grow with Cersei,” Headey said. “The fact that they haven’t killed me is a miracle … I guess the moment I’m dead on ‘Thrones,’ you’ll never want to speak to me again.”
If Headey really thinks that, then she hasn’t been paying much attention. Perhaps it’s due to the sheer amount of cast that’s been killed off over the years, but sometimes it seems like there are more interviews about Game of Thrones with actors and actresses who have been killed off than there are with those who are still on the show. The latter, after all, are afraid of accidentally giving away spoilers. The dead, on the other hand, can’t talk about what’s to come–because they’re no longer allowed to know.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/02/02/lena-headey-the-fact-that-they-havent-killed-cersei-is-a-miracle/
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