Published 15:40 IST, June 19th 2019
'Game of Thrones' would have changed if this scene wasn't scrapped
The final season of the insanely popular HBO show 'Game of Thrones' sparked a lot of controversies, with fans signing petitions for the last season to be rewritten. But how exactly do you put an end to one of the most loved shows?
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final season of insanely popular HBO show 'Game of Thrones' sparked a lot of controversies, with fans signing petitions for last season to be rewritten. But how exactly do you put an end to one of most loved shows?
Well, actor Lena Headey, who played Cersei Lannister in series, revealed that everything would have been different if a particular scene wasn't deleted.
Headey appeared at a comic book convention in Munich, Germany, where she revealed a key scene that was totally scrapped in seventh season of 'GoT', reported E! News.
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scene, if it was retained, would have given fans a clue to many of Cersei's decisions in final season.
actor stated that scene from season seven had Cersei 'lose baby' and added that it was disturbing yet a magnificent moment for her character. She also ted that specific scene was something she would have loved to portray on screen.
Headey said scene, which was from season seven, showed Cersei "lose baby." She described it was "traumatic" and a "great moment for Cersei."
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"I kind of loved doing that because I thought it would've served her differently," Headey added.
Headey said that her character was pregnant with her bror Jaime's (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) child in season seven. During season eight, Cersei and or characters kept referencing baby. Later on, Cersei led Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek ) into believing that he was far of her child. But in an unexpected twist, she was t shown pregnant.
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storyline would have changed in a way after this twist.
Headey also recently spoke out about Cersei's fate in end. In an interview with a British newspaper, as cited by E! News, Headey said that she had her own gripes about way things happened but was waiting to talk to show's co-creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss about it first. Headey went on to say that she wanted a better ending for her character, who died under a pile of rocks with Jaime.
"I will say I wanted a better death," Headey told Guardian. "Obviously you dream of your death. You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted. But I just think y couldn't have pleased everyone. matter what y did, I think re was going to be some big comedown from climb," she added.
However, if ors had ir way, final season of Game of Thrones would have been very different.
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In an interview with IndieWire, director Miguel Sapochnik said he wanted Battle of Winterfell to play out differently in season eight's episode ' Long Night'.
"I wanted to kill everyone. I wanted to kill Jorah in horse charge at beginning. I was up for killing absolutely everyone. I wanted it to be ruthless, so that in first 10 minutes, you say, 'all bets are off, anyone could die.' And David [Benioff] and Dan [D. B. Weiss] didn't want to. re was a lot of back-and-forth on that," he said.
After a remarkable 8-year-long journey, final season of show concluded with its last episode aired on May 19.
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15:36 IST, June 19th 2019