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Published April 14, 2019 9:41am EDT
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Top Talkers: The final season reportedly cost a whopping $90 million.
" Game of Thrones " star Lena Headey didn't appreciate the backlash she received from fans following her famous nude scene in the HBO hit .
Headey told The Sun she was pregnant at the time of the shoot, so she used a body double for the scene, in which a cult forced her to walk through the streets naked.
“Some people thought I was less of an actress [for using a body double]," Headey recalled. "It was a bit shocking. [The stand-in] found it very difficult, obviously. It’s not a natural thing to do.”
Headey explained she's not against performing in nude scenes in general, however.

Lena Headey used a body double for her nude scene when she starred as Cersei in HBO's "Game of Thrones."
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“I’ve done nudity. I’m not averse to it," she said. “I’m a very emotional actor and get really driven by that. To do my job, I allow myself to be really vulnerable. I don’t know any other way.”
She embraced that vulnerability when filming as a way to cope with the pain of her divorce from her husband of six years, Peter Loughran, in 2013, explaining, “I tried to put into Cersei in a way that was cathartic for me, otherwise I would have had a meltdown.”
Headey says she's got little in common with Cersei in terms of her own personality, which makes the role a bit of a challenge, but that the character did help her cope with another trauma in her life: postpartum depression , which she suffered in the first season of the " Game of Thrones ."

In this image released by HBO, Lena Headey appears in a scene from "Game of Thrones."
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“It was horrendous — I had post-natal depression but I didn’t know it," she said . "I saw a doctor for the medical check and I just burst into tears. I did the first year [of 'GoT'] in that space, figuring out motherhood and going through a weird time personally. It was tricky.”
Headey says she'll miss the show, but there's one element of it which she's eager to strip herself of for good: Cersei's cropped wig, which Headey — who also said she only worked for 15 days per year — calls "the itchy turnip."
"I hated that thing. I would have liked to burn it," she confessed. “Everyone keeps asking me if I took anything from the set — but I didn’t take anything.”
Playing Cersei was challenging at times for Headey, she says, because she's a self-described "nerd" who's shy and suffers from anxiety, but she'll miss the series and admitted to crying when " GoT " filming ended.
“I thought I wasn’t going to let myself get to that point because I had the last day to get through — and then, when I left and I got in the car, I broke down in tears and I was devastated," she said. “It’s been nine years and it’s been amazing, and I’m happy to go and find new things.”
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