While promoting The Forest , Natalie Dormer, best known as Margaery Tyrell on Game of Thrones , spoke about that character’s arc in Game of Thrones Season 6. When we last saw Margaery in Game of Thrones Season 5 she was locked beneath the Sept of Baelor awaiting trial for lying about her brother’s boys-on-the-side sex life. How will Margaery handle the torments of the Faith Militant in Game of Thrones Season 6? Natalie Dormer offers up some possibilities.
“Without giving too much away, in season six, you're really going to see Margaery in a predicament where she genuinely is fearful, and she absolutely has no idea how to get herself out of it… You're like, ‘ Has this woman really been changed by everything that's happened to her? Finally, after all these years in King's Landing, has it broken her? Has something genuinely shifted here?’ Because she's out of her depth, finally, and losing her grip a bit,” Dormer told Vulture in an interview about Game of Thrones Season 6.
But while that might suggest Margaery is in for a harrowing experience that rivals Cersei’s walk of shame, Dormer has said elsewhere that Margaery will be just as in control of the situation as ever.
Natalie Dormer On ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6
Game of Thrones fan site Winter Is Coming found this tidbit from Dormer’s interview with Women’s Health that provides a different taken on Margaery’s story arc in Game of Thrones Season 6:
“‘Margaery is a savvy chick and she’s trying to find an angle,’ she said. ‘She’s trying to find a way to get out of that cell so it’s pretty amusing and ingenious the route she decides to take.’”
It seems likely that even if Margaery briefly falls into despair in Game of Thrones Season 6, she’ll quickly be up to her old manipulations, this time with a religious twist.