'Game of Thrones' season 7 news, spoilers: Emilia Clarke predicts Daenerys-Cersei showdown; Cersei's prophecy to play out?
The shocking "Game of Thrones" season 6 finale gave viewers one of its most stunning scenes to date: Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and her massive fleet sailing towards Westeros accompanied by her three humongous dragons flying above.
The young Targaryen, who has been spending the last six seasons across the sea from Westeros and its multiple bloody wars, is finally on her way to claim what she believes is her rightful place on the Iron Throne.
However, the sixth season finale also saw another powerful female claiming the Iron Throne for herself. Daenerys' path is taking her straight towards what will surely be an epic confrontation with Cersei (Lena Headey), who rose to the seat following the tragic suicide of her last living child, the late King Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman).
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Clarke spoke about the upcoming battle between Daenerys and Cersei, saying that the current leader of Westeros doesn't stand a chance against the Targaryen's dragons, Unsullied, Dothraki, and Ironborn allies.
"I mean, yeah," the actress said. "That's what I'm saying. If we talk about this: basically, I've got ships, I've got manpower, I've got dragons that breathe fire, and I apparently cannot be killed. I don't even have an attractive man who wants to take his shirt off anywhere near me now, so there are no distractions."
That Daenerys will cause Cersei's downfall also seems inevitable because of Maggy the fortune teller's prophecy. As was seen in the season 6 finale, the first part of Maggy's prophecy has already come true. All three of Cersei's children are now dead.
The second half of the prophecy will then likely play out in the upcoming season 7. In George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels, on which the award-winning HBO series is based, Cersei lives in fear of this prophecy and is partly the reason for her deep hatred of Tyrion (Peter Dinklage).
Apart from predicting that she would bear three golden-haired children and that all of them will die, Maggy, who Cersei encountered when she was a child, also said that a younger and more beautiful woman will take away everything Cersei holds dear.
With Margaery (Natalie Dormer) already dead, the only candidates for fulfilling this part of the prophecy are Daenerys and Sansa (Sophie Turner). But because it is Daenerys who is dead set on taking the Iron Throne, chances are that the Mother of Dragons is the one who will cast Cersei down.
The final part of Maggy's prophecy is the most disturbing one.
"When your tears have drowned you, the Valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you," she said.
In Valyrian, "Valonqar" means "little brother." Though it could very well be Tyrion who ends up killing Cersei, Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Cersei's lover/twin, also happens to be younger than she is.
Will Jaime end up having to kill Cersei?
"Game of Thrones" season 7 airs in 2017.