This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones.

It didn't seem like things could get much worse for Ellaria Sand after Euron Greyjoy interrupted her makeout with Yara Greyjoy last week, but in "The Queen's Justice," they definitely did. Euron paraded Ellaria and her daughter Tyene through the streets of King's Landing before delivering them to Cersei (they were his previously mentioned "gift" to her), then Cersei chained them up and kissed Tyene with the same poison that Ellaria used to kill Myrcella. Ellaria's not dead but according to actress Indira Varma, she's not coming back to the show either — meaning Ellaria's going to live out the rest of her days in that dungeon, watching Tyene waste away.

"I was expecting it," Indira told Entertainment Weekly of her character's exit from the show. "I wasn't heartbroken. And I was like, 'As long as I die on screen…' and they were like 'Yeah!' But of course I don't die on screen. I stay alive, I'm just not going to reappear. I think it's really clever." As far as shooting the scene went, it sounds like it was just as intense for Indira as it was for Ellaria, due to the whole "shackled to the wall" thing. "They very kindly put some felt inside the handcuffs so we didn't get bruised and battered — though we ended up doing that anyway because your acting takes over," Indira said. "The shackles kept coming off so they had to tighten them and then we couldn't get them off at all. At the end of the day I was like, 'I'm stuck! I need somebody to help me!' and they had to cut me out of them. All in a day's work."

Game of Thrones: The only show on TV where "all in day's work" means "getting cut out of shackles."

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