The Truth About Lena Headey And Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's Relationship
Ironically, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Lena Headey felt like they were kissing a sibling right through a few of Cersei and Jaime's extra steamy scenes. Only they weren't into it as much as their incestuous Game of Thrones opposite numbers.
It's only been ten years since the pilot premiered, yet we still can not believe our eyes once we watch the Lannister siblings going at it like star-crossed enthusiasts, however that's rarely the worst thing anyone did on the show. While we wish we may have modified many details in Game of Thrones, it might were particularly satisfying to see Jaime kill Cersei in season eight. But as an alternative, they tragically died in combination in what used to be certainly one of their sweeter moments.
While Cersei and Jaime were having their on-again-off-again brother/sister relationship all through the series, Coster-Waldau and Headey were simply buddies, despite having nice chemistry on-screen. They was brother and sister, but they didn't reasonably take it so far as their characters.
But do they keep in touch? Here's what we all know about their relationship.
They Didn't Like Kissing
Now that GOT is over, we miss Headey, Coster-Waldau, and the remainder of the gang, despite the fact that some had been happier than others to finally be done with the display. Do the cast members miss it as much as we do?
Headey and Coster-Waldau seem to, if only because they don't get to peer every other as a lot. But they most definitely don't miss having to kiss every different. In chatting with Red Bulletin in 2016, Coster-Waldau was once requested which scenes, previous or provide, have been laborious for him to film. He mentioned there were many, however the incest scenes were some of the hardest, and it sounds as if, Headey has the same opinion.
"Lena Headey is brilliant as Cersei… We know each other so well now that it feels weird every time when we have to do a kissing scene," he said. "So as soon as they yell cut, we make faces of disgust, not seriously. But it does feel a bit wrong."
One scene between the twin-cestuous characters used to be harder to film out of all the leisure, however. Remember that in reality graphic intercourse scene between them in season four all the way through Joffrey's funeral? Fans dubbed it the "r**e-cest" scene.
Both Headey and Coster-Waldau had so much to say about the scene, although they had been both hesitant to speak about it in the beginning. They agree it was never meant to be a r**e.
"It’s that terrible thing as a woman—talking about something as horrendous as r**e and dismissing it, which I’m not," Headey told Entertainment Weekly. "But we never discussed it as that. It was a woman in grief for her dead child, and the father of the child—who happens to be her brother—who never really acknowledged the children is standing with her. We’ve all experienced grief. There’s a moment of wanting to fill a void, and that is often very visceral, physical. That, for me, is where she was at. There was an emotional block, and [her brother] was just a bit of a drug for her."
Meanwhile, Coster-Waldau stated, "I’ve spoken to a lot of people [privately] about this. I haven’t spoken to the people who got the most upset because they were online. Most people I spoke to got from the scene what we were trying to show—a very complicated relationship and two people in desperate need for each other. All these emotions going through them, it was never intended to be something where he forced—it wasn’t a r**e, and it was never intended to be. But it’s one of those things where you can’t [publicly] say ‘it wasn’t r**e,’ because then everybody goes, ‘How can you say it wasn’t r**e?!’ But that was definitely not the intention."
Even despite the fact that most of their scenes had been arduous to movie, a minimum of they had each and every different through all of it. They bonded over GOT.
They Bonded Behind-The-Scenes
During the ultimate season of GOT, both Headey and Coster-Waldau shared many behind-the-scenes throwbacks of their time on set.
In November 2019, Headey posted a picture of the pair on set, with the caption, "Best Bro." She also shared a series of videos of them getting up to mischief as well. There was once a hilarious photo of Headey and Coster -Waldau dressed in head caps.
"When @nikolajwilliamcw and I wore jellyfish ... I f**king love you ya big weirdo," she wrote. She additionally shared a work of fanart she found and preferred of Coster-Waldau as soon as.
Finally, Headey posted a tribute to her brothers from different mothers, Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage, and thanked them for the whole lot. "And that was that... what a night .. my brothers from others mothers... or the same mothers .. whatever it’s confusing .. I love you and couldn’t have done this without you both, no one more daft, kind, or supportive... I will cherish all of it. @nikolajwilliamcw #peterdinklage."
Coster-Waldau has additionally posted some hilarious behind-the-scenes photos of the pair messing round as neatly. He posted a picture of Headey posing with Jaime's gold hand that they filled with dried fruit.
"@iamlenaheadey I finally got our ‘fruity hand of Queen’ into Production. Should be on Amazon anytime now," he wrote.
During season eight, he wrote, "The best, sweetest most wonderful sister from another mother @iamlenaheadey. That was a fun decade," next to an image of the pair pulling humorous faces.
So we can think that Headey and Coster-Waldau will probably be life-long buddies. They went via a lot giving us one in all the easiest tv shows, and they will continue to fortify each other. But that is as far as they pass. There's no incest in this brother-sister relationship.
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