For year , Arya Starkwas focused on one thing : kill every person on her death list . But it ended a couple of names curt , as other the great unwashed , sometime age , or come rock suffer to her designate target first . However , Game of Thrones worker Maisie Williams and Lena Headey both agree that there was one name Arya should ’ve gotten the luck to cross off .
In an interview withEntertainment Weekly , Williams share how she was disappointed that Arya Stark did n’t end up killing Cersei Lannister — even if it meant her character would also die . ( Instead , of course , the Hound win over her to leave the crumbling Red Keep just in time . ) She also share how , as she was reading the script for the penultimate episode , “ The doorbell , ” she kept thinking she was finally going to come across the varlet where Arya and Cersei intersect paths for the terminal prison term .
“ I want Arya to kill Cersei , ” she state . “ Even up to the point when Cersei ’s with Jaime I recall , ‘ He ’s going to whip off his face [ and reveal its Arya ] ’ and they ’re both going to conk out . I thought that ’s what Arya ’s drive has been . ”
Arya Stark after the assault on King’s Landing.Photo: HBO
She was n’t the only one . Headey also told EW that Cersei ’s death was n’t like how she ’d pictured it , and that she ’d always mean Cersei would fall at the paw of Arya . “ I live that fantasy until I show the script , ” Headey suppose . “ There were chunky scenes and it was nothing that I had dreamt about . It was a bit of occur down and you have to bear that it was n’t to be . ”
Headey did note that she thoughtCersei ’s final scenewith Jaime Lannister was “ poetical , ” even if it was n’t what she cogitate was perish to happen . Williams also free the final determination to have Arya leave King ’s Landing instead of operate after Cersei , even if it was n’t what she wanted for the character . It showed how Arya had amount full forget me drug and found a reason to care about others again , part thanks to being reunite with her family .
The Hound says , “ You want to be like me ? You require to live your life like me ? ” In my head , the answer was : “ Yeah . ” But I guess sleeping with Gendry , pick up Jon again , realizing she ’s not just crusade for herself anymore but also her family line — it ’s bring up all these human emotions that Arya has n’t felt for a retentive time . When The Hound asks her if she has another option , all of a sudden there are so many more thing in [ her ] life that she can live for , that she can do . It was a shock for me because that was n’t how I visualise her spark going this year … It ’s not a Game of Thrones stop for Arya , it ’s a felicitous finish .
Whether you felt it was the right determination to have Arya survive , or a error , it seems the actors were sort of hoping for something else to bump to their characters as Game of Thrones came to an end . But there ’s no agency to shift that now … unless you ’re into fanfiction .
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