Queen Cersei, "Game of Thrones' " queen bee, is played by Lena Headey. Designed as an acerbic, amoral survivor in "Game of Thrones", Cersei is played with consumate skill by the 42-year old actress.
The hardball character she plays in "Game of Thrones" is not new to the star. Headey was Sarah Connor in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," Ma-ma in "Dredd" and lately Lady Catherine de Bourgh in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" takes Jane Austen's classic "Pride and Prejudice" and places it in a zombie apocalypse setting. Headey has had to slay more than a few zombies as toughened Lady Catherine. Although viewers would not have been able to tell, New York Daily News reports that Headey was actually pregnant and had bouts of nausea while filming "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
"I was obviously pregnant with my daughter Ted and I was thinking, she's in my belly and I'm doing this, it's quite bizarre," Headey said. "It was the early days of my pregnancy and I felt absolutely hideous every day. Maybe all this zombie-killing will be in her DNA someday."
Discounting this one discomfort in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," Headey said she is grateful to be given very interesting roles despite the fact that she is over 40-years old. "Now, because I'm a tough old hag, I get to play all the tough old bitches," Headey said. "In terms of Hollywood, anything over 40, it's, 'Surely she can only play a grandma.' But I'm also not afraid of that."
Headey believes that being Queen Cersei in "Game of Thrones" has a hand in carving her unique niche. As E! News reports, Jimmy Kemmel had a few choice compliments to pay Headey as Queen Cersei.
"One of the great things you do on Game of Thrones, your character Cersei, you say the meanest things in a very cool way," Kemmel told Headey. "You insult the others...you actually threaten them, that sort of thing."
In the meantime, "Game of Thrones" fans won't have too long to wait before "Game of Thrones: Season 6" premieres. E! News says that a few more little "Game of Thrones: Season 6" revelations by the show's stars should get dished out.
Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, gave an interesting promise about the show. "I really can't say much apart from you'll see the biggest moments on television that have ever existed," she said. Whether or not this refers to, or includes, Kit Harington's Jon Snow returning from the dead in "Game of Thrones: Season 6" remains to be seen.
