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Lena Headey Reveals ‘traumatic’ miscarriage scene that was cut from Game of Thrones

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Lena Headey Reveals ‘traumatic’ miscarriage scene that was cut from Game of Thrones

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How many of us spent the first half of Game of Thrones season 8 trying to ascertain whether Cersei Lannister was really pregnant? She quit drinking alcohol in season seven, but she swiftly reverted to her old habits in season eight, despite having informed Jaime that she was expecting their fourth child. Cersei was indeed pregnant.

In season seven, viewers learned that the queen was expecting a child, but many wondered if she was speaking the truth or faking the pregnancy to persuade her brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to stay at King’s Landing.

Lena Headey said during a recent visit at Munich Comic Con that she had recorded a miscarriage scene in which Cersei lost her baby — a truly heartbreaking sequence, but it was cut.

“We shot a scene that never made it into season seven which was where I lose the baby and it was a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei and it never made it in and I kind of loved doing that because I thought it would have served her differently,” said Headey.

Cersei was still apparently pregnant with Jaime’s kid in the eighth and final season, and she slept with Euron Greyjoy to appease him and pretend the unborn baby was his instead. Instead of giving Cersei one final sympathetically devastating turn, she and Jaime would die in one other’s embrace in the last episode of the series, buried in the ruins of the Red Keep following its destruction by Daenerys Targaryen.

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    And, speaking of Cersei’s death scene, Headey said to The Guardian that she isn’t a fan of how she died in the last season of Game of Thrones.

    “No, listen,” she began, “I invested as a viewer and I have my favorite characters. And I’ve got a few of my own gripes. But I haven’t sat down drunkly with David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] yet.”

    “I will say I wanted a better death,” Headey said.

    “Obviously you dream of your death,” she went on. “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.”

    Cersei spent the whole of her final episode in a staring contest at Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys. Cersei did not engage in any physical combat with her foe, and the two characters did not even exchange a word. After the series finale in May, Clarke made news for saying that Season 8 required more Cersei-Daenerys scenes.

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