Lena Headey is blunt when she warns of how things are going for Cersei Lannister. When we last saw her character, she had just collapsed after completing a naked “Walk of Shame” from the Sept of Baelor through the streets of King’s Landing to the Red Keep in the Game of Thrones Season 5 finale. Will this incredibly mortifying experience, and living through how the people jeered and threw mud (and other things) at her as she walked by change her perspective? Not a bit of it.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Headey warns: No, it’s worsened things!
“I don’t think she’s found any humility. She’s even more self-preservatory. She can’t believe that happened to her, of all people. It’s fueled her desire for power and her desperation to prove that she’s somebody worth considering.”
Remember, all Cersei ever wanted was for the men around her to take her and her power seriously. She believed to her bones, that she was her father’s true heir–that Jaime was weak and Tyrion was malformed, and that it should be she who her father entrusted with the Lannister family name, and the Lannister family power–a thing he never did. She believed he only refused because she was a woman, and she’s partly right. Though, as we know, she’s also just an absolute disaster when it comes to leading as well, making a deal with the High Sparrow that effectively gave away the power in the city to his religious cult, among other extremely stupid and short sighted movies.
The Walk of Shame not taking Cersei down a notch isn’t he only thing that will surprise us this season. many assumed that when Jaime returned home with Myrcella’s body, Cersei would go absolutely buck wild, imagining screaming fits and attacking her brother for failing her. Headey did too. That’s why Cersei’s reaction on the page–and in the scene that show released prior to the season–was so stunning to her.
It’s an interesting moment [in the season premiere] when she realized Jaime’s comes back with a dead daughter. [Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] write about Cersei showing nothing – no screaming – and then later there’s a moment with Jaime where she’s broken and it’s so genuine. It’s purely a mother lamenting the purity of her child. I never thought Cersei would say out loud what’s said in this scene; it was quite a beautiful moment. And then it gets all f–ked up.
As for what’s Cersei’s real emotions and what are her put-ons to fool those around her, Headey admits even she isn’t sure sometimes. “There are moments I wasn’t sure if she’s really doing what she’s presenting. Everything in this has 75 layers.”
Speaking of the High Sparrow, Jonathan Pryce is promising that we’ll get to know more of the enigmatic character who has quietly taken over ruling the capital city from deep in the Sept of Baelor. Last year, we got flashbacks to Cersei’s childhood, and the fears that drive her to this day. According to The Guardian, Pryce says in this month’s print issue of the RadioTimes that Season 6 will give us that same insight to the Lannister’s main enemy.
“It was all with good intentions; he had lived a very debauched life, he was very rich, and he woke up one morning and said, ‘This is wrong’ and walked out with bare feet. He’s stayed barefooted ever since,” Pryce told the new issue of Radio Times.
Meanwhile, for those who are in the UK, you have doubtlessly caught the comparisons of the High Sparrow to Jeremy Corbyn, the bordering on zealot Labour Party leader in Parliament. Pryce agrees that the comparisons have their apt moments. After all “we both dress badly!”
“It’s funny, or perhaps ironic, but if you look on the internet there are images of me and Jeremy Corbyn as a looky-likey. That could be interesting. A faith militant!”
For the royal family’s sake, let’s hope not.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/04/19/lena-headey-says-the-walk-of-shame-hasnt-humbled-cersei/
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