Lena Headey Articles: L.A. Times & Entertainment Weekly

Check out these two articles featuring Lena Headey as Game Of Thrones' Cersei Lannister.

In the Los Angeles Times...

“I think she is deeply, deeply fearful,” said the 38-year-old actress. “She sleeps with fear in her soul. She is full of terror and paranoia and insecurity. She hides it with stillness. She does not move much and that’s been a real challenge for me. I fidget. She’s like a cobra, she’s a snake just waiting and waiting… 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.”

Click here to read the L.A. Times article: ‘Game of Thrones’ queen: Lena Headey lights it up in dark role

In Entertainment Weekly...

For Headey, this means plenty of dramatic scenes with her less-loved brother Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) and her monstrous son, King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson). “You get a real glimpse into her guilt as a mother and her fear of what she’s created,” says Headey, whose several cool tattoos get covered by makeup to play Cersei. “She’s just starting to slightly crumble and feel the reality of her world. There’s a lot of drinking … also massive denial about her son’s behavior.”
Cersei’s isolation will prompt her to confide in a very unlikely person. “There’s a moment where she absolutely shows Tyrion her true self,” she hints. “He becomes like a sort of confidante — almost — because she has nobody else.”

Click here to read the Entertainment Weekly article: 'Game of Thrones': Lena Headey & Coster-Waldau talk season 2 scheming

Season 2 of Game Of Thrones premieres Sunday April 1st on HBO.