She really bothers me, the way she cocks her head with a very calm and calculating manner in virtually every scene she appears in. As I remember Cersei, she was very firey and did very little calculating at all. Just a blundering, raging woman as hate-able as Joffrey. I recall hearing Lena Headey state that she did not read the source material or do any sort of research on her character. For me, it sticks out in comparison to Emilia Clarke's Danaerys (which she picked the book apart to prepare for), and I could not ask for a better Danaerys.
Of course, there's always the possibility that the Cersei in aGoT is very different from the Cersei in recent books that I'm more familiar with. It's a minor complaint among minor complaints. Overall, they've done a fantastic job with the show. Even if I hate Lena's Cersei, there's always Danaerys, and Sansa, and Drogo, and Robb, among others who fit the characters I imagined to a T.
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Date: 2011-08-11 05:58 am (UTC)Of course, there's always the possibility that the Cersei in aGoT is very different from the Cersei in recent books that I'm more familiar with. It's a minor complaint among minor complaints. Overall, they've done a fantastic job with the show. Even if I hate Lena's Cersei, there's always Danaerys, and Sansa, and Drogo, and Robb, among others who fit the characters I imagined to a T.