Game of Thrones star Lena Headey shared the details behind her choice to use a body double during her nude “Walk of Atonement” scene in Season 5. HBOGame of Thrones, which is infamous for its sex scenes, violence, and nudity, came out before intimacy coordinators were a fixture of film sets. As a result, shooting the sex scenes was “a sort of frenzied mess,” Thrones star Gemma Whelan, who played Yara Greyjoy, said, and star Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) admitted to crying after some of her sex scenes. For Cersei’s Walk of Atonement on Thrones, Headey said that her status as an established public figure and a mother affected her choice. Body double Rebecca Van Cleave stepped into the three-day shoot, earning Headey’s praise.