Game of Thrones season 8 will 'surprise at every turn' says Lena Heady

'I had many fantasies about how Cersei would – if she were to – die'

Despite the final season of Game of Thrones fast approaching, fans still know relatively little about the upcoming episodes.

What we do know, thanks to Cersei Lannister actor Lena Headey, is to expect the usual twists and turns we have come to expect from the series.

“I think people will be surprised at every turn this season,” she told EW during a recent interview for family comedy Fighting with My Family.

The actor gave away little else, revealing she once drunkenly spoke to someone about the series and then “hunted them down and made them sign in blood not to say anything”.

She also teased previously thinking about Cersei’s demise: “I had many fantasies about how Cersei would – if she were to – die. But I think it was, every year, anyone’s lying if they say they didn’t kind of rush to the end of each script and go, ‘Oh, phew!’”

A season eight theory currently doing the rounds suggests Headey’s character may be the surprise saviour of Westeros in the

Meanwhile, during another interview, Headey recently spoke about how rejecting sex from disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein may have cost her career.

She said: “After he was discovered to be a slimeball, on a grander scale than me just knowing it, I did start thinking, ‘F***, maybe because I didn’t shag him, that’s impacted a decade of my working life’, because I did two jobs for Miramax [the film company founded by Weinstein] before those incidents, and after that there was nothing.”

Game of Thrones returns 14 April. Read everything we know about the series here.