“Game of Thrones” Season 5 seems so far away now, but one flashback scene it revealed seems especially important now.
Lena Headey (Cersei) brought up the scene during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. (Season 7 finale spoiler ahead!) While offering her character’s take on Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), whom she met in Episode 7, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” Headey reminded us of the prophecy Cersei heard as a teen and explained that the meeting likely brought the memory “the forefront of her mind.”
The prophecy, which was revealed in a Season 5 flashback, came from a witch and fortune teller named Maggy (Jodhi May) after teenage Cersei demanded information about her future. The witch complied, and what she said now seems extremely prescient.
“You’ll be queen … for a time,” she said. “Then comes another — younger, more beautiful — to cast you down and take all you hold dear.”
Yes, that sounds bad for Cersei, so we can’t blame Headey for thinking her character would be bothered by her rival.
“I think she’s immediately envious because Daenerys is more beautiful and younger than she is,” the actress said, “and the prophecy says somebody younger and more beautiful will take her place.”
While Cersei has already lost much of what she holds dear, she still has power, and she has proven she is willing to fight for it. The possibility of losing it gives Cersei a lot to fear, especially since other parts of what Maggy said proved to be true. Not only did the witch predict Cersei’s marriage to a king, Maggy also said she would have — and lose — three children, which is currently true. Depending on whether or not Cersei is actually pregnant and delivers a baby, we’ll know how much weight to give the prophecy.
“Game of Thrones” Season 8 is due in late 2018 or as late as 2019.
[via: EW]
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Cersei Lannister has been *a* queen on “Game of Thrones” for all six seasons to date. But she is now finally *the* queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
Headey also said she’s excited to see Cersei and Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) back together, and she mentioned him again when discussing Cersei’s eventual fate.
Here are some alternate suggestions: Since Cersei loves fire as much as the Mad King, why not let her die by dragonfire? Or do the ultimate twist and don’t kill her at all — send her to The Wall as the first female member of the Night’s Watch. If we can have solo queens for the first time — in King’s Landing, the Iron Islands, Meereen — surely Cersei can break the gender barrier at Castle Black. She’d be Lord Commander in no time.
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However, Deadline added, that shouldn’t be taken to mean those five characters will definitely make it to the end; as Nellie Andreeva wrote, “I hear it does not guarantee that all five characters will survive til the end as the show’s last episodes are yet to be written. I hear the contracts of the other regulars who landed raises alongside the Big 5 in fall 2014, have not been redone yet.”
In terms of the five mentioned above, they were rumored to be getting about $300K an episode during the last contract talks in 2014. Half a million dollars is a quality raise from that amount, but it’s for episodes that run a full hour, no commercials, and there will probably only be 13 episodes total across two seasons. Contrast that with the $1 million an episode for the “Friends” cast, for a half-hour sitcom that ran across 22 episodes. That show made tons of ad money for the network, so the stars cashed in. Other stars, like on “The Big Bang Theory” and “Modern Family,” are still doing that today.