
No matter what things she does, she's a mother lion protecting her young." She approaches Cersei as a damaged person, so it comes from a real place, not from a twirling-the-mustache kind of place. A lot of actors would play that role like a bad seed, and Lena would never consider it. "They have stillness and they resonate so much power. "All the great actors, they don't need to do much on screen," Dinklage said. I'm a parent now, we have a young son, and I lived life and that's all part of Cersei as I sit in there."Ĭostar and good friend Dinklage says that Headey may not even realize how far her talents go. "So where I am now, in this role, it is such a blessing. "I'm 40 next year, and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses," Headey said. Shivers aside, the role of Cersei and the success of "Thrones" are "a joy and a gift," says the actress, who this year is celebrating the 20th anniversary of a screen career that began in 1992, the year she appeared in "Waterland" with Jeremy Irons.

the hard thing is it's freezing where we film (in Belfast) in a shipyard for five months a year, and I'm there in a silk dress trying to be totally still." She's like a cobra, she's a snake just waiting and waiting. She does not move much, and that's been a real challenge for me.
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She is full of terror and paranoia and insecurity. "I think she is deeply, deeply fearful," said the 38-year-old actress. Her crystalline eyes and imperious glare suggest a woman in total control, but much of it is facade hiding her self-loathing over a longtime incestuous relationship with her twin, Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), and bitterness about the general powerlessness of women in the kingdom of men. A recent widow (ahem), she plotted to have the crown land on the head of her sadistic son Joffrey (Jack Gleeson in Draco Malfoy mode) while her brother Tyrion (Peter Dinklage, the newly minted Emmy and Golden Globe winner) now holds the powerful post of Hand of the King.įor fans who watch "Thrones," Headey's character is one they love to hate.

The singular show is like some Norman tapestry - intricate and huge with its memorable threads devoted to carnage and triumph - and the diabolical Cersei is near the center.
