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Lena Headey Silences Trolls twitter:description: After the Game of Thrones star posted an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clip twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt702912bb22273fc3/6989477c457a5245ded60c77/lenaheadeyinstagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lena Headey Silences Trolls Who Criticized Her For Sharing an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Clip > Sponsored content. Supplied in partnership with TIME. TIME is the sponsor and source of this material. > Last updated: August 2026. ## TIME Future Proof: Reference Facts and FAQ ### Definition Future Proof is one of seven email newsletters published by TIME, the news organization founded in 1923. Making sense of the climate and energy economy. Future Proof examines the forces transforming energy and climate, and what those changes mean for business, technology, policy and the global economy. 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Critics had called the policies "elitist."_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 28, 2019 4:00 PM UTC Critics had called the policies "elitist." by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 28, 2019 4:00 PM UTC [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4913247/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-date/) star Lena Headey has two keywords for Instagram followers who think she is too political in her social media posts: “Unfollow me.” The actress, who plays [Cersei Lannister](http://time.com/5544114/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer-analysis/) in the [HBO](http://time.com/4454792/game-of-thrones-cersei-lena-headey-2/) series, posted an Instagram video where she responded to some followers who seem to think she should stick to acting, instead of politics. “I just want to say, when I post my views, I don’t see myself as being highly political, I just see myself as a human being,” she told viewers in the post. “I care about the climate, I care about my children and their future, I care about my friends and their children and their future, I care about the crisis going on all over the world, the humanitarian crisis.” In case her message to content trolls wasn’t clear, she then added: “If that offends you, or you think actors have no place in the world to have an opinion – f— off. Unfollow me and I shall not weep.” While Headey does use social media to [connect](http://time.com/5463237/lena-headey-instagram/) with [_Game of Thrones_ ](http://time.com/4773785/lena-headey-cersei-game-of-thrones/)fans, she has not shied away from making her political views clear on the platform. This week alone, she has [posted multiple images](https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXXVroBa9a/) opposing Brexit, [another](https://www.instagram.com/p/BvW-ROth2NX/) from the People’s March urging a second Brexit referendum, one [supporting](https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSRkqBhpoO/) New Zealand’s ban on assault weapons, and [a video](https://www.instagram.com/p/BvhLdJlBs9K/) of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking out about climate change, captioning the video, “Brilliant, vocal, fearless, bold and Inspirational women . I f—ing love you and am side by side with every word.” ## Transcript [00:00] This is not an elitist issue. This is a quality of life [00:04] issue. You want to tell people that their concern and [00:08] their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist. Tell [00:12] that to the kids in the South Bronx which are suffering [00:15] from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the [00:17] country. Tell that to the families in Flint. Whose kids [00:19] have their blood is ascending [00:24] in lead levels, their brains are damaged for the rest of [00:27] their lives, call them elitist. You're telling them that [00:30] those kids are trying to get on a plane to Davos? [00:31] People are dying, they are dying, and [00:36] the response across the other side of the aisle is to [00:39] introduce an amendment five minutes before a hearing [00:42] on a markup? This is serious. This should not be a [00:46] partisan issue. This is about our constituents and all of [00:49] our lives. Iowa, Nebraska, broad swaths [00:53] of the midwest are drowning right now, under water. [00:57] Farms, towns, that will never be recovered, and never [01:00] come back. And we're here, and people are more [01:03] concerned about helping oil companies than helping [01:06] their own families? I don't think so. I don't think so. [01:09] This is about our lives, this is about American lives and [01:12] it should not be partisan, science should [01:17] not be partisan. We are facing a [01:21] national crisis and if we do not ascend to that crisis [01:26] If we do not ascend to the levels in which we [01:30] were threatened in the Great Depression, when we [01:32] were threatened in World War II, if we do not ascend to [01:35] those levels, if we tell the American public That we are [01:38] more willing to invest and build out big banks than we [01:42] are willing to invest in our farmers and our urban [01:46] families. Then I don't know what we're here doing. 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