Van Houten also opened up about a particular scene that involve no nudity, but has stuck in the minds of viewers for years. In season five, Melisandre convinced Stannis to sacrifice his own daughter to the Lord of Light, and then we watched Shireen burn at the stake. Van Houten says she would likely look at that scene very differently now.
"I wasn't a mother back then," she told Deadline. "I think I would have found it more troubling now. Of course it's fiction, but that was raw and gruesome. I remember first reading it and thinking, 'are we actually going to do this scene?'"
They did do the scene, and for that reason, no matter how helpful Melisandre became, we've still never forgiven her.
You can read her full interview on Deadline.
Game of Thrones aired on HBO.
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