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This Deleted Game of Thrones Scene Would Have Explained a Lot About Cersei


This post contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones. Consider yourself warned.

Game of Thrones has been over for a month—we’re doing Big Little Lies on Sundays now—but will it ever truly be over? That’s probably a no, and not just because a prequel is in the works. A show like Thrones lends itself to endless speculation, especially considering how unhappy many fans were with how showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss opted to close out the eighth and final season.

New details are still emerging about what could have been for some of our favorite inhabitants of Westeros. According to People, actress Lena Headey recently told the crowd at a German comic book convention about a deleted scene that showed her character, Cersei Lannister, having a miscarriage. “We shot a scene that never made it into season seven, which was where I lose the baby,” she said. “And it was a really traumatic, great moment for Cersei, and it never made it in.”

“I kind of loved doing that because I thought it would’ve served her differently,” she continued. “Of course, we’re not exactly sure what made the show’s creators scrap the scene, but we can’t say it isn’t interesting to at least think about how that moment may have changed things.”

You’ll remember that Cersei told her brother Jaime that she was carrying their child and had also convinced Euron Greyjoy that she was pregnant with his baby. Her other brother, Tyrion, tried to use the unborn baby as a motivation for Cersei to negotiate with him and Daenerys, to no avail. Fans were left to wonder what was really going on with Cersei. Was she ever really pregnant? Why wasn’t she showing more if time was passing?

Now we know that, at some point, the show’s creators had planned to offer an explanation. Also, we agree with Headey that we would have loved to see this sort of pivotal scene from Cersei, who was often underused in season eight. Headey recently told The Guardian that she has a “few of her own gripes” about the way Game of Thrones ended, in general, and that she wanted a better death for Cersei. “I will say I wanted a better death,” she said. “Obviously you dream of your death. 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.”



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This 'Game of Thrones' Theory Suggests Sansa Stark Will Be the One to Kill Cersei Lannister


Warning: Some spoilers for this season of Game of Thrones ahead.

Sansa Stark has been rising in the Game of Thrones power rankings for weeks—seasons, really. Once a privileged young girl of Winterfell who didn’t care to focus on much outside of herself, Sansa has become a true force in the Seven Kingdoms. She’s my personal choice to sit on the Iron Throne when this saga wraps up in three weeks.

And now, a new theory (from Hollywood Life) suggests that Sansa will actually be the one to kill Cersei Lannister as focus returns to King’s Landing after the defeat of the Night King.

The most popular guesses as to who might take down the queen are her brothers, Jaime and Tyrion, or Arya. This is thanks to the prophecy from Maggy the Frog, which Cersei heard as a child. In the books it says, “And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.” Valonqar means “little brother,” which at first glance would mean Tyrion. But it could apply to Jamie, too, considering he’s the younger twin. Notably, thought, that specific part was left out in the show. And then, of course, Cersei sits high on Arya’s kill list.

Cersei Lannister and Euron Greyjoy in King’s Landing.

But it would be super cool if it was Sansa, especially since Arya just had a big moment in killing the Night King.

Don’t forget that Maggy’s prophesy also includes this bit: “Queen you shall be…until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.” Sounds like Sansa, no?

So, how might this all go down? The dagger that Arya gave to her older sister during the Battle of Winterfell plays a big part. “Stick ’em with the pointy end,” Arya says, in a callback to the same advice Jon Snow gave to her in season one. While Sansa has never trained to be a physical fighter like Arya, she has learned a lot about politics and manipulation by Littlefinger and Cersei herself. The theory points out that, in season seven, Sansa admitted to “learning a lot” from Cersei.

“What if it’s actually the person she least suspects? It would be satisfying as hell to watch Sansa kill Cersei with Arya’s dagger,” Avery Thompson writes for Hollywood Life. “Sansa learned so much from the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei helped shape Sansa into the woman she is today. But just like Arya, Sansa harbors a hatred for Cersei. Cersei had a hand in having Sansa’s father, Ned, killed, which Sansa had to watch from just inches away. She helped keep Sansa in King’s Landing and away from her family for years.”

The motive is definitely there—and thanks to the dagger from Arya, Sansa now has the means. But will she take her shot when the opportunity arises? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.



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This *Game of Thrones* Fan Theory Suggests Cersei Is Not Actually Pregnant


Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season eight.

Game of Thrones is back, and with it comes a new slew of new fan theories. A major one that emerged after last night’s season premiere is that Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) isn’t actually pregnant—or if she once was, she isn’t anymore.

Remember, in season seven Cersei told her brother, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), that she’s pregnant with their fourth child. But even at the time many questioned if she was telling the truth, or just using a possible baby as a way to keep Jaime firmly under her thumb. The Lannisters’ other brother, Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), also deduced that Cersei was pregnant after she refrained from her beloved wine at the end of season seven.

But a moment in the season eight premiere has fans thinking the queen is either no longer pregnant or never was to begin with. Cersei sleeps with Euron Greyjoy after he agrees to pledge his loyalty and military troops to her. After the encounter, he says, “I’m going to put a prince in your belly.” She has a mysteriously wistful expression on her face as he leaves the room—and a glass of red wine in her hand, which she drinks.

Fans quickly took notice.

Of course, Cersei could just be drinking through her pregnancy (and the moment with Tyrion last season was an anomaly). Another possibility is that she lost the baby at some point and is trying to get pregnant again as quickly as possible. Or maybe she was never pregnant and is trying to produce another heir with Euron. With Cersei, anything can happen.

Only time till tell, but whatever happens, it certainly seems that Cersei has the upper-hand on all the men in her orbit.

Game of Thrones airs Sunday nights at 9 P.M. ET on HBO.



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Everything You Need to Know About Cersei on Game of Thrones Is Hidden in Her Wardrobe


Warning: This post contains Game of Thrones spoilers.

The last time Game of Thrones fans saw Cersei Lannister, she had—finally—crowned herself Queen and came face-to-face with her rival for the Iron Throne, Daenerys Targaryen, who asked her to join forces in an upcoming war against an undead army of White Walkers.

The meeting of Westeros’ two self-anointed queens was a pivotal moment in the series, and Cersei’s costume spoke volumes about the interaction’s implications for season eight. “As she meets Dany, the costume becomes more warlike with chainmail and the silhouette changes with strong moulded shoulders, like a exoskeleton,” Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton tells Glamour. “There is also a slashed and twisted detail on the back of her coat. It feels lizard-like, cold blooded. It creates an illusion that you can see into her soul, and it’s dark.”

True to those details, audiences know that Cersei’s words belie her intentions heading into the final season. She’s pregnant with a fourth child, and she’s more inclined to ensure her future heir’s line to the throne than to honestly band together with the Starks and Targaryens in a war for the living. According to Clapton, her outfits are the first place you can look to know exactly how she’s feeling and thinking in moments like this.

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“All of Cersei’s costumes tell of her story,” Clapton says. “We might hate her, but she is a product of her treatment.” If you’ve watched Thrones from the very beginning, you know that Cersei hasn’t always been decked out for battle—and that she went through a lot to reach her current situation. (To refresh your memory: She endured and escaped a forced marriage, had an ongoing affair with her twin brother, and witnessed the violent deaths of her three children, to name just a few.) Like her machinations, her wardrobe has dramatically evolved over time.

“When we first met her eight years ago, her fabrics and colors were softer. She was subdued, hunted. The imagery she embroidered onto her costumes were birds in swirls of stitches,” Clapton says. The meaning? “It was supposed to speak of her feelings of being trapped—[like a] bird in a cage—within a marriage that she was forced into, forced to be weak and manipulated only because she was a woman by a drunken boar of a man who her father chose for her. The style was a wrapped Kimono in paper silk, implying availability.”

Cersei Lannister at King's Landing in season 1
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Cersei and Tyrion Lannister in season 2
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Of course, she didn’t stay a bystander in her own story for long. As her agency increased in the following seasons—often achieved through deception and murder—her outfits become more obvious symbols of her power grabs (and less typically feminine). “As her position changes with the murder of this husband [Robert Baratheon, who is poisoned in season one], we start to see the colors become stronger and often to be shades of red. The cloth becomes stronger and the Lannister Lion becomes prominent in the embroidery.” In other words, she’s asserting her authority, and her dedication to preserving Lannister power, through her clothing.

Cersei Lannister walks with Littlefinger on Game of Thrones
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Side-by-side with other women at court, Cersei’s wardrobe is thrown into sharper relief. Take the arrival of Margery Tyrell to King’s Landing, who has competing ambition to take the throne for House Tyrell, for example. Margery leans in to her femininity with colorful, low-cut gowns; meanwhile, Cersei’s costumes tend toward an opposite aesthetic. “[It’s] ultimate power dressing,” Clapton explains, “with armor and heavy symbolic jewelry to insist visually of her belief in her rightful place within the family.” That view ultimately appears to win, when Margery is killed in season six’s dramatic King’s Landing explosion, clearing Cersei’s path to the throne.



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