
Who is Lady Stoneheart?Why do fans think Lady Stoneheart might appear in Season 8?Will Lady Stoneheart actually appear in Season 8?
This post contains spoilers for Season 8 of Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) is currently in the midst of its eighth and final season and, with just five episodes to go until the long-awaited series finale, there are, frankly, still a lot of loose ends to tie up.
Some of the loose ends are very show-based (like how will Dany react when she finds out Jon is her nephew and also the rightful Targaryen heir to the Iron Throne?), but others are more book-based and involve elements from A Song of Ice and Fire that haven't made their way into the HBO adaptation—or not yet, at least. One of those book-based lingering questions involves Lady Stoneheart (opens in new tab), a character book readers have been hoping to hear from since Season 3's infamous Red Wedding.
Now, a new quote from Joe Dempsie, who plays Gendry on the show, is reigniting hope that the character might make an appearance before the show ends for good in May.
Who is Lady Stoneheart?
Lady Stoneheart (opens in new tab) is, for lack of a better description, Zombie Catelyn Stark. In the books, Catelyn is resurrected by Lord of Light follower Lord Beric Dondarrion after her murder at the Red Wedding. The resurrection involves Beric sacrificing his life for Catelyn's and her reanimated corpse is known as Lady Stoneheart. She plays a pretty significant role in the books, but hasn't appeared in the series at all.
Why do fans think Lady Stoneheart might appear in Season 8?
During a Q&A at Radio Times and BFI Festival, Joe Dempsie, who plays Gendry on Game of Thrones, discussed his character's long absence from the show and, in the process, reignited hope among Lady Stoneheart lovers that the character might appear on the series after all.
Of his own character's long hiatus (opens in new tab) from the show, Dempsie said, per Express (opens in new tab):
This prompted the panel's host to ask: "Lady Stoneheart?"
Will Lady Stoneheart actually appear in Season 8?
Don't get your hopes up too high for an eleventh hour Lady Stoneheart appearance, however.
Jacob Anderson, who plays Grey Worm, was also on the panel and had a simple response to the Lady Stoneheart question: "Give it up!"
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