Weeks after the series finale, fans are still griping about the ending of “Game of Thrones”, with some so angry about the way things wrapped up in Westeros that more than 1.6 million (and counting!) have signed a petition asking HBO to remake the final season “with competent writers.”
Meanwhile, “GoT” star Lena Headey is coming forward to admit that, like those disgruntled viewers, she wasn’t that crazy about the way her character died.
In a new interview with The Guardian, the 45-year-old actress — who played devious Cersei Lannister — thinks Cersei deserved a more dramatic demise.
“I invested as a viewer and I have my favourite characters. And I’ve got a few of my own gripes. But I haven’t sat down drunkly with [showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] yet,” she says.
When she does sit down for that drink, “I will say I wanted a better death,” she says of Cersei’s fatal exit during Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) fiery siege of King’s Landing, meeting her end when she and brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) were crushed to death by falling stones.
“Obviously you dream of your death,” she says. “You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted. But I just think they couldn’t have pleased everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be some big comedown from the climb.”
Interestingly enough, Headey’s “GoT” father Charles Dance (who played Tywin Lannister) has expressed his displeasure with the show’s ending.
“I was confused,” Dance told a U.K. morning show of the series finale.
“[I] got to the very end and I thought, ‘Hmmm, okay…’” he continued. “There’s little Arya, she’s going off on a cruise somewhere. Poor Jon’s gone back up north beyond the wall. And then there’s Tyrion. And all the people left alive are saying, ‘What do we do now? Should we have a cup of tea or something?’ And I thought, ‘Ahhh, I don’t know.’”
