Natalie Dormer has revealed she learned about her onscreen death a lot sooner than her fellow deceased Game of Thrones colleagues usually find out.
During an appearance at this weekend's London Film and Comic Con, the British actress said showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss told her about Margaery's impending doom more than a year before she was killed onscreen.
Margaery ultimately met her end in the sixth season finale, when Cersei blew up the Sept of Baelor with Margaery, her brother Loras and the High Sparrow all inside.
As it turns out, Dormer knew all about her green-coloured fate a year prior to filming her final scenes and bowing out of the HBO saga.
"We all have to dedicate, like, six months of our lives to Game of Thrones every year," Dormer said (via Radio Times).
"As actors we do get frustrated if we can't do the other jobs we want to do in the other months of the year.
"So I phoned Dan and David because there was a job that I really wanted to do and they said 'No, you can't do it, we won't release you from the schedule' and I was really upset and they said, 'But don't worry Natalie, we're gonna kill you next year'.
"So unlike a lot of cast I found out a year earlier than normal because it was meant to be like compensation: 'You will soon be free so shut up and stop complaining'."
Far from being put out, Dormer was rather happy about her ultimate demise as she was dying to work on her own feature film In Darkness.
"I finally made the movie that I wrote," she added. "It took about eight years to get it together – it's hard to make an independent movie – and if I'd still been in Game of Thrones I wouldn't have been able to make In Darkness."
The movie follows a blind musician who tries to solve a murder and also stars Emily Ratajkowski and Deadpool's Ed Skrein.
