Things are royally awkward on Game of Thrones.
At the upcoming fifth season, Margaery is set to marry Tommen, the 12-year-old brother of her dead husband, Joffrey.
“Margaery is just trying to play the next, you know, round of cards with the ones she’s been dealt, so it’s a particularly awkward situation for her, and young Tommen as well, so she’s just trying to befriend the kid,” Natalie Dormer, who plays Margaery, told me at the Extremely Piaget launch and opening of the high-end jewelry house’s Rodeo Drive flagship. “She’s just trying to befriend him. It’s very awkward as an actress being given that specification. It’s not an easy thing to do.”
Dormer said she couldn’t exactly prepare for the storyline. “I wasn’t expecting to be alive still,” she cracked. “But here I am, so I’m just navigating it the best I can and as delicately as I can, to be honest.”
