Lena Headey told by reporter she 'looks better' as Game of Thrones character: 'I was crushed'

The Cersei Lannister star was seven months pregnant at the time

Lena Headey recently revealed how a journalist criticised her looks in an interview that left her feeling “crushed.”

The Game of Thrones star appeared on Running Wild With Bear Grylls back in June where she divulged details on a press junket during which a reporter criticised her appearance in front of a room of people when she was seven months pregnant.

Headey told Grylls in the newly resurfaced clip: “You have to do these things for all the awards and everything where loads of people interview you. I went in and was seven months pregnant and [there was] a whole room of journalists, and this guy stood up and he said, ‘Uh I just want to say that you’re really disappointing in real life.'”

The British actor - a brunette - revealed how the reporter told her she looked better wearing a blonde wig in character as Cersei Lannister

“He went, ‘Is that your real hair?'” Headey said. “And I went ‘Yeah’ and he said, ‘The wig is much better. I like you as a blonde.’ I was like, ‘OK.’ I was just crushed. How is that alright to say?”

This comes after Lola Kirke (Mistress America) explained her reaction to a review which described her looks in indie film Gemini as “hardly flattering.” Upon reading the New Yorker review, Kirke stated she felt “ashamed of herself” and was left questioning her own beauty.

Headey - who has been Emmy-nominated for her portrayal of Cersei - is currently filming scenes for the final season of Game of Thrones which is expected to drop on HBO and Sky Atlantic mid-2019. She'll next be seen in Fighting With My Family which stars Florence Pugh as WWE Professional Wrestler Paige.