And wonderful Rebecca was able to contain herself and be naked. “I did what I thought she would do emotionally. “It’s not hard when people are screaming at you and you look like sh** and you’re being f**king humiliated how that would feel,” Headey added. You’re so in touch with the scene and what you’re going for.” “But it’s such an emotional experience for Cersei, you almost check out of the fact that you’re nude. “The first time I took off the robe there was all this anticipation building up to it,” she said. It was an intense experience for Van Cleave. Still, at the end of the day it was still a scene where actors had to walk through a crowd of people jeering at them. “We left very little exposed, so to speak.” “e wanted to make sure just everybody behaved and was respectful of the situation, and we didn’t want to offend anybody,” said executive producer Bernadette Caulfield.
I didn’t phone it in I was there for three days with Rebecca.”Īs for the actual shoot, the production team did everything it could to make sure the actors were protected, lining as many view lines as possible with umbrellas. It takes a lot to walk through the crowd naked for three days with the crowd braying at you. “It was as helpful for her as she was for me,” Headey recalled. The two actors worked together to make sure they were as much in sync as possible, walking through the location as a team beforehand. She played Cersei’s body, and Headey’s face was later added in with digital effects. The solution everyone came up with was to hire actor Rebecca Van Cleave. I film every year and I have kids and it was just too much on top of that. The thought of being naked for three days and trying to contain her in the way she would be… I think I would feel very angry. In order to do my job, I allow myself to be very vulnerable. But I’m a very emotional actor, and I get really driven by that. “ some people thought I was less of an actress because I didn’t get my t*ts out. “I chose not to be naked for many reasons,” Headey said. Another was that Lena Headey, who plays Cersei, did not want to appear nude, since she didn’t think she could do that and still give the performance she needed to. To start, a church in Dubrovnik, Croatia - the city that had long stood in for King’s Landing - objected to the sequence as going against a city policy against “public displays of sexuality.” The GoT team still managed to get permission, but that was only one issue. It’s much more horrific if they’ve just completely dehumanized you and taken off all your clothes and you have nothing to hide behind.”īased on the real-life punishment in 1483 of King Edward IV mistress Jane Shore, the sequence posed a challenge to the production team. I don’t think it’s as common that you’re in your pajamas in front of people. It’s a common anxiety dream to be naked in front of people.
And the nightmare is you’re walking naked in front of a city of people. It’s supposed to be like a scene from a nightmare. “They’re trying to humiliate her as much as they possibly can. “They’re trying to shame her,” said showrunner David Benioff. Martin says in the new book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series. The High Sparrow’s stated reason for making Cersei endure this is so she can demonstrate remorse for confessing to sleeping with her cousin Lancel, but really it’s to take her power away and declaw her as a political rival in the city. “It was a punishment directed at women to break their pride, and Cersei is defined by her pride,” A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. This scene finds Cersei having to strip naked on the order of the High Sparrow and to walk through the streets of King’s Landing while being jeered at by the peasants.
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