Cersei took so many of us out in the last episode and she's really turned dark; even Jaime Lannister can see that, so I don't think that Cersei Lannister is long for her Westeros world. I hope she's not.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.