--- title: Game of Thrones: Cersei and Varys Reunite in Instagram Photo description: Game of Thrones stars Lena Headey shared a photo of her and Conleth Hill in Seville, Spain on Instagram. canonical: https://time.com/5277707/game-of-thrones-cast-irl-2018/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-15T14:06:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:09:53.173Z og:title: Games of Thrones' Cersei and Varys Enjoyed a Romantic Night og:description: Last seen in Seville og:url: https://time.com/5277707/game-of-thrones-cast-irl-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07fbca55d65aa45c/6988dad94ee262dd0430eaf6/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-cersei-lannister-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-cersei-lannister-04 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Games of Thrones' Cersei and Varys Enjoyed a Romantic Night twitter:description: Last seen in Seville twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07fbca55d65aa45c/6988dad94ee262dd0430eaf6/game-of-thrones-the-dragon-and-the-wolf-cersei-lannister-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meanwhile _Game of Thrones'_ Cersei and Varys Enjoyed a 'Romantic Evening' in Spain > Sponsored content. 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Fashion photographer Miles Aldridge captures startling renaissance inspired photographs for TIME's Game of Thrones issue._ by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas May 15, 2018 2:06 PM UTC Fashion photographer Miles Aldridge captures startling renaissance inspired photographs for TIME's Game of Thrones issue. by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas May 15, 2018 2:06 PM UTC [Cersei](http://time.com/5209634/game-of-thrones-cersei-cosplayer-proposal/) and Varys enjoying a romantic evening in Spain may be an unusual sight for _Game of Thrones_ fans, but, at this point, viewers can’t be surprised by anything. Actors [Lena Headey](http://time.com/4880109/game-of-thrones-cersei-lannister-lena-headey/) and Conleth Hill, who play Cersei and Varys, respectively, on the hit HBO show, reunited in Seville, Spain, for a “romantic evening” and a photo. The two actors play rivals on _Game of Thrones_ as Varys aides Cersei’s younger brother Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) in his counsel to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) as she aimed to snatch the throne from Cersei herself. The seemingly innocuous photo of the two actors comes as _Game of Thrones_ fans hypothesize about the plot of the highly anticipated final season of the HBO show, set to air in 2019\. Indeed, Hill, who appears bald like his character Varys, and Headey don’t hide the fact that they’re in Seville — a city in which _Game of Thrones_ has filmed scenes at the Roman ruins of Italica, or, on the show, the Dragonpit. That was the sight of a memorable scene from the season seven finale, where Cersei, Daenerys, Jon Snow, Tyrion, Varys and other important characters met all at once for the first time in the show’s run to discuss the threat of the Night King, White Walkers and Wights. Eagle-eyed fans have also [spotted](https://winteriscoming.net/2018/05/09/game-of-thrones-season-8-spoilers-cast-members-seville-dragonpit/) evidence of other _Game of Thrones_ actors like Kit Harrington (who plays Jon Snow) and Maisie Williams (who plays Arya Stark) in Seville in recent weeks, getting the season 8 speculation underway. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] This is the cover of Time magazine. So maybe what I was expecting was to come in and do very smart suits in greys and muted colors, and to look slightly like politicians, not like the craziness [ LAUGH ] that we're doing. So it's a nice surprise, it's great. I wanted to have this kind of mash up of northern renaissance art and kind of modern art. I like the kind of bold flat colors of Francis Bacon but the detail of northern renaissance painters like Cranekin Durer. I'm kind of always interested in those northern renaissance painters just because there's a kind of obsession for clarity and detail But also there's a sort of very perverse use of stillness. The subject is thinking deeply about their universe. I actually always wanted to be a filmmaker rather than a photographer and one of the most important aspects of filmmaking is that great sort of thing of the cinema closeup, when you kind of crash in. is that a woman's face and she's thinking about something that is changing her whole world, and that aspect of cinema I stole and put in my photographs. 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