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She has fond memories of playing alongside a gaggle of fellow Brits and Irishmen at their physical best wearing tiny outfits. "It made logical sense that my character would be there," she says. "Lena is the glue to both stories," says director Noam Murro.įor Headey, who plays the scheming Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones, it was an obvious choice to come aboard. The British actress, 40, plays the now-grieving Spartan queen, who is urged by the Greek general Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) to battle the Persians on another front.

And it also involved Headey, one of the few actors to appear in 300: Rise of an Empire (opening Friday) as well. The answer turned out to involve another historical battle that took place days later on the water. "Are we talking Zombie Resurrection 300 for the sequel?" "At first, it was like, what are they going to do? Everyone is dead," says Lena Headey, the Game of Thrones actress who starred as the Spartan Queen Gorgo in the original 300.

That leaves some big holes in terms of leading actors, since Gerard Butler (King Leonidas) and Michael Fassbender (Stelios) were dead. It was, after all, about the ancient battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans were slain by a massive Persian army. That was the problem facing the filmmakers from the original 300, which stormed to a $70 million opening weekend in 2007 but left little room for a sequel. But it does make it hard for a follow-up story.