Lena Headey, who played Cersei Lannister on the hit HBO fantasy show Game of Thrones, reflects on whether or not she misses being on set making it.
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has reflected on her time starring in the landmark fantasy show. Headey played the duplicitous and cruel Cersei Lannister, one of the main characters in the George R.R. Martin adaptation, for a total of 62 episodes between 2011 and 2019. Although she appeared in other major projects previously, including 300 and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the role of Cersei helped make Headey a star and earned her five Emmy nominations.
The Hollywood Reporter recently sat down with Lena Headey for an interview about her feature directorial debut The Trap. During their conversation, she was asked if she missed being a part of the Game of Thrones cast. While she said she missed the people, she admitted that “I don’t miss it” and celebrated the fact that “it changed everyone’s f—ing world, and we’ll always have it.” Read her full quote below:
No. I miss the people — because you fall in love with people, and you create these family units. So that takes a little while to go though. There’s a weird grief from those relationships. But I don’t miss it. We did it. We put everything into it. It changed everyone’s f—ing world, and we’ll always have it.
Everything Lena Headey Has Done Since Game of Thrones
Since Game of Thrones season 8 concluded the show four years ago, Headey hasn’t found another project that has had quite as much notice. However, she has been able to spread her wings and perform in a wider variety of projects, using the show as a springboard to launch in several intriguing directions. This includes a robust career as a voice actor in such projects as The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Infinity Train, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and DC League of Super Pets.
Headey has also had an opportunity to show off even more range in the action-thrillers Gunpowder Milkshake and 9 Bullets. While she hasn’t abandoned dramatic television entirely, she also embraced an entirely different kind of role opposite Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux in the historical miniseries White House Plumbers. In the HBO show, she played the real-life figure Dorothy Hunt, who was married to E. Howard Hunt, one of the men behind the Watergate scandal.Headey’s future roles also showcase how many different genres she is embracing outside Game of Thrones. One of her buzziest upcoming titles is the sci-fi show Beacon 23, in which she plays a woman with mysterious motives who winds up on an isolated beacon at the edge of the known universe, where she matches wits with the beacon keeper. With so much on her plate, it makes the feeling that she doesn’t miss being a part of Game of Thrones, despite the pain of losing those relationships that were built over the better part of a decade.
