--- title: Lena Headey Takes Game of Thrones fans Behind the Scenes description: The photos are throwbacks to earlier seasons, they are still a tiny morsel for hungry fans eager to return to Westeros canonical: https://time.com/5463237/lena-headey-instagram/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-26T17:31:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:07:05.565Z og:title: Lena Headey Takes Game of Thrones’ Fans Behind the Scenes og:description: The photos are a tiny morsel for hungry fans eager to return to Westeros og:url: https://time.com/5463237/lena-headey-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccce9b9cea756455/69893fe186f68ee0106eacb9/lenaheadeygameofthronesbts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Headey Takes Game of Thrones’ Fans Behind the Scenes twitter:description: The photos are a tiny morsel for hungry fans eager to return to Westeros twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccce9b9cea756455/69893fe186f68ee0106eacb9/lenaheadeygameofthronesbts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lena Headey Comes Through With the _Game of Thrones_ Behind the Scenes Content You Deserve > Sponsored content. 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Fashion photographer Miles Aldridge captures startling renaissance inspired photographs for TIME's Game of Thrones issue._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 26, 2018 5:31 PM UTC Fashion photographer Miles Aldridge captures startling renaissance inspired photographs for TIME's Game of Thrones issue. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 26, 2018 5:31 PM UTC The eighth and final season of _Game of Thrones_ isn’t [due to premiere](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/) until April 2019 and fans of the show are hungry for details about the finale and any hints of who will sit on the Iron Throne, what will happen to Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and the ultimate fate of Westeros. Of course the studio is doing absolutely everything they can to ensure that the final season’s story line doesn’t leak online, protecting the fans from spoilers. “They’re very very strict. It’s reached a crazy level this year,” star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau revealed in an [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time%5Fcontinue=2&v=WoW5S9iFgOo) at Cannes 2018, saying that the digital copies of scripts given to cast members to memorize their lines vanish at the end of shooting, self-destructing _Mission: Impossible_ style. Spoiler-loving fans are just going to have to wait to find out what happens next. This is all, to say that fans are into any [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4791793/game-of-thrones-season-7-david-benioff-d-b-weiss/) content and star Lena Headey (better known as Cersei Lannister, the current resident of the Iron Throne and ruler of the Seven Kingdoms) is more than happy to comply. On her Instagram feed, Headey posted a photo of her reunion with her with her on-screen brother Jaime, played by Coster-Waldau, tagging it #oldiebutgoodie. She also posted a few behind-the-scenes videos of the seemingly very silly life on set with Coster-Waldau and Pilou Asbæk a.k.a. Euron Greyjoy. While the pictures claim to be throwbacks to earlier seasons, they are still a tiny morsel for hungry fans eager to return to [Westeros](http://time.com/4429346/game-of-thrones-season-7-cast-news/). ## 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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