Lena Headey 'never felt beautiful' when she was younger
Game of Thrones star Lena Headey has confessed she "never felt beautiful" when she was younger but she's learned to embrace her looks as she aged.
Lena Headey "never felt beautiful" when she was younger.
The Game of Thrones star, 52, has opened up about her life in the spotlight and confessed she spent years feeling "uncomfortable" about her appearance and didn't feel better when she realised other people saw her as attractive.
She told The Telegraph newspaper: "When I was younger, I felt really uncomfortable. I never felt beautiful. And so when people thought of me like that, I felt a real tightness. I wondered: 'What are they expecting?'
"Because I didn’t feel like that. But the joy of getting older is that it’s not about being a thing for somebody else. Instead you just want to do the thing for you and for other women. Such as tell the sorts of stories that women want to hear."
Lena also admitted she's glad she'd already had a taste of fame before she landed her huge role of Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones, but she's adamant being thrust into the spotlight didn't actually give her the career boost she expected.
She said: "Thrones was mega, and I don’t think anyone expected it, but thankfully it wasn’t my first job, so it didn’t make me nuts. I was famous for a second, and all I found was that, yes, I could suddenly get a good table in a restaurant, and all the knobby things that come with it, but we put so much f****** weight into fame. We equate it with greatness, and that’s just not true."
She added: "You might think that [it would have given me a career boost] but I’ve been knocking on doors for years now. Yes, the door opens, but it opens for a certain amount of time."
