Margaery Tyrell died in ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 when Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) blew up the Great Sept of Baelor with wildfire. Natalie Dormer recently told Collider that the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms’ ending left her ‘frustrated.’
“I was frustrated that she went that way, but then she was frustrated in the scene,” the actress shared for the outlet’s ‘Ladies Night with Perri Nemiroff.’ “And I was once told by a much older actor, ‘Don’t get confused. If you’re feeling something, always check yourself that it’s not just that your character is feeling it, and, via osmosis, it’s seeping into you.’”
She continued, “Because if you play something, your body doesn’t know any different, and if you’re playing something repetitively, as you obviously have to do on a shoot, sometimes that emotion can seep into you.”
Margaery joined ‘Game of Thrones’ in Season 2, becoming the bride-to-be of Joffrey Baratheon and enduring his abuse in a bid to become queen. After Joffrey’s death by poisoning in Season 4, she married his younger brother, Tommen.
Dormer said her ending could’ve been better after all she went through but noted, “I wanted more for her, but she’s so frustrated in that moment with the Sparrow, with Jonathan [Pryce], and so that’s part of it.”
She explained, “That’s how you know you’re doing it right, because you’re like, ‘I just need someone to listen to me a little bit more.’ She was vindicated in the end. It’s just a couple of sentences, but it’s all that needed to be said. She was vindicated, and I felt like I could let her go in that moment because I was like, ‘She said it, man.’”
‘Game of Thrones’ featured many unexpected deaths throughout its eight seasons. But the deaths in the final season drew the most criticism from viewers for feeling rushed.
Daenerys Targaryen’s [Emilia Clarke] sudden descent into madness and her death at the hands of Kit Harrington’s Jon Snow particularly became a topic of discussion.
Harrington admitted to making mistakes in the finale but suggested they were due to the cast and crew’s exhaustion. “Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I think there were mistakes made, story-wise, towards the end maybe,” his August interview with GQ Magazine read.
“I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work. I think if there was any fault with the end of ‘Thrones,’ is that we were all so fucking tired, we couldn’t have gone on longer.”
The ‘Game of Thrones’ franchise returned with the prequel series ‘House of the Dragon’ in 2022. The spinoff’s second season wrapped up on August 4.
