Perhaps we are discovering that, like The Doctor, HBO lies.
It turns out that huge fanfare the network made about not filming in Croatia for Season 6 wasn’t true. Will the madness ever end?
Perhaps the hope was to keep filming quiet and private, after the Old City had turned into a veritable circus over the last couple of years, with hordes of tourists lining the city walls to gaze down upon filming, and take hundreds of pictures to spread on social media. Even the big spoilers of last season, like Cersei’s Walk, had video footage leaked.
Either way, HBO couldn’t keep it totally quiet. Adventure Dubrovnik spotted the production team in the area this morning, and posted photos to their Facebook page, along with shots of an actress we’ve been waiting to see film scenes for the last few months.
Lena Headey has finished her maternity leave, and is ready once more to play the fierce Cersei Lannister.
And yes, it really is her, not a double.
Her hair has grown out a bit into a chic pixie cut. (Not that such things are fashionable at the turn of the 4th century in Westeros.) Note that the dress is, for the first time in quite a bit, not black. It’s also one of her lion shoulder gowns, which is one the show has put her in during the last couple of seasons whenever she is fiercely protecting her children.
Either she doesn’t know Myrcella is dead, or she’s finished mourning for her by this time.
Considering that she spent an entire season in mourning for her son, and then another mourning for her father, my guess is the former. Especially when you consider the location:
We don’t see Nikolaj Coster Waldau here, or a boat, so perhaps this is Cersei awaiting their return? Either way, I’m not sure I want to be there when the boat shows up, with the second golden shroud for her child’s golden crown.