June 26, 2015
I wanted to thank Lena Heady (or Rebecca Van Cleave) for making that protracted nude walk in the Season 5 finale of \”Game of Thrones\”! I am now comfortably tied over till Season 6 of GOT begins!!
What a body! At first I thought it was Lena\’s 42-year-old-body — but I gather Van Cleave is a bit younger (and not pregnant). I wonder if this scene will score a Guinness World Record?! Surely it must have set some non-porno record for \”extended nudity of a single character\”?!
Rumor has it that this scene was not easily \”kept\” for the Season 5 finale of \”Game\” because the censors had a problem with it (and I can see why — the \’walk of shame\’ lasted close to 4 minutes and 45 seconds — not to forget the nudity in the \’haircut\’ scene prior to \’the walk\’!). The Wife suggests that the directors and producers had simply run out of content and that\’s why we got the extended nude scenes (may \’they\’ run out of content in every \’Throne\’ episode!).
Is Van Cleave an exhibitionist? A contemporary Lady Godiva — so able to get naked in-front-of-all-those-extras?! I gather that she was one of 1000 women who auditioned to be the Cersei body double — as Lena Heady did not feel that getting naked would help her handle the role of Cersei the way it needed to be handled. Besides, Lena has been naked on film before.
The only time I\’ve ever felt naked in front of this many folks however (aside from getting naked in this column from-time-to-time), was in my adolescent dreams…you know those dreams…where you are taking-a-shit amidst a multitude; or, attempting to find a piece of clothing to cover up — but no one helps you?!
Sure, Lebron can flash his stuff in front of millions, and a naked Brian Cohen opened his window to a-hundred-or-so (from Monty Python\’s \’The Life of Brian\’) — but Van Cleave was not only in full view of the many extras, but also the millions of \”Throne\” aficionados! The illusion was carried out so well that she and Lena can simply tell their children: \”That wasn\’t my body.\”
Now, like the many depressed women still addicted to soap operas — where on any given day at least one character\’s life is worse than that of the viewing housewife — I can tune into Episode 10 of Season 5 of \”Game\” to get cheered up if I\’m feeling down. Not only do I see Queen Mother Cersei getting her just desserts — but I get to watch those 4 minutes and 45 seconds (or so) of Leah and Van!
I was so uplifted by \”The Walk of Shame\” that I wasn\’t that worried that it seemed like another Stark death finished a \”Game\” Season: because in earlier episodes of Season 5 I noticed the Red Witch looking at Jon Snow rather strangely (which this ol\’ English teacher took as foreshadowing that Jon Snow has something more-in-store). Indeed, cast members of \”Thrones\” have intimated that Jon Snow may not be as dead as we are led to believe.
One-thing-that-bothers-me, however — is that I gather that the author of Game of Thrones has not finished books 6-or-7 and that the television version of the tales may depart from the book versions (folks-in-the-know tell me that this has already occurred!). Christ! The new Fantastic Four has been totally screwed up for me and I\’ll be damned if I watch it! But this is what Hollyweird does…despoils original stories and story lines to reel in an audience…
So I\’m left to ponder whether there is anything sacred left in this world…anything holy…perhaps Lena Heady\’s body?