12 thoughts on “WCW: Lena Headey

  1. The crown with the dangly bits in ‘Merlin’ is trying to be a Byzantine imperial crown like the ones Justinian and Theodora are wearing in the 6th-century mosaics at San Vitale in Ravenna; it’s just not quite working.

  2. The OG live action Jungle Book definitely jumpstarted my childhood crush on both Cary Elwes and Lena Headey. Although I was never sure how her white dresses stayed so pristine while she’s romping around the jungle.

  3. Every time that I ever see Keira Knightley in anything, I am always wishing it was Lena Headey instead. Some actors are just too contemporary and need to stay fixed in the 20th century – to present time. Headey seems to be stellar in any century.

  4. Re. Queen Guinevere’s crown; it has a definite Byzantine vibe and those dangly ornaments were totally a thing on early English crowns so I’d give it a pass.
    I love Lena Headey no matter what she’s in, and she’s been in a lot of poor movies.

  5. “What’s with all the ringlets under the dowdy caps?”

    Originally I was thinking that maybe they were going for a Staithes bonnet, which is traditional women’s work headgear linked to Yorkshire, but the images look off overall.

    Digging a little deeper in the Wikipedia entry on this long-running (1968-2002) series shows that by 1993, the series had expanded from the original “Victorian era until the early 1970s” framework it had for decades and had begun to show earlier periods like the Tudor and Stuart eras.

    The ones with Lena Headey were a three-part set of episodes titled “In Civil War,” so they’re going for 17th century rather than 19th century.

  6. I loved her in Possession; it’s a so-so adaptation of a really good book, and Headey’s performance is amazing.

  7. Funny, a couple of days ago I watched a film called “Clothes in the Wardrobe” from early 1990s–it was “Introducing Lena Headey”. I’d seen it years earlier as (I think) “The Summer House”, and it stars Julie Walters, Joan Plowright and Jeanne Moreau, with Headey as a reluctant bride in 1950s Croydon, England. Great period detail of clothes and decor.

  8. My but she looks good in that eyepatch! I like her costumes in 300 too, but you have to be really toned to wear them!

  9. Lena Headey is awesome!! Fave FrockFlick role is her character in Possession, more so because Possession is one of my favorite movies than because of her character. She was badass in 300, and I’m think all the pics you showed were from the first movie (which I’ve seen) rather than the second (which I haven’t). She was also a badass in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I’m pretty sure that I remember her bitching. I mean, that’s a definitive characteristic of Lady Catherine, isn’t it? Wow. She was in so much that I’ve forgotten about and/or always wanted to see but never quite got around to. I really want to see what, if any, chemistry she managed to have with Ralph Fiennes and Natasha McElhone.

    But I think my fave parts of this post are when you get relaxed and write things like, “Technically fantasy, but whatever,” and “I have no idea.” That just makes me smile! Thanks for this post.

  10. Correction: “…what, if any, chemistry she has with Joseph Fiennes…” I mean they’re both fienne but Joseph is no Ralph and vice versa.

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