Coster-Waldau said, "If you look closer there are those moments where she—well, I haven't seen the finished edit, of course—but we tried to have it where she goes into it then she pulls away, she goes in then she pulls away, but of course he is forcing himself." Later he and his co-star Lena Headey (Cersei) spoke with "Entertainment Weekly" during the filming of season 5, admitting that they were never directed or intended to film a rape scene. Headey stated: