11 times the 'Game of Thrones' stars trolled fans — from faked photos to straight up lies

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones."

HBO's "Game of Thrones" has notoriously been the target for spoiler-hungry fans. But over the course of its nearly 10-year run, the show's creators and cast have found creative ways to dupe fans or troll the would-be leakers. 

From teasing book readers who thought they knew what was coming to tricking interviewers with semantics, INSIDER has gathered all the most memorable times the "Game of Thrones" cast and crew tried to pull a fast one on fans.

Keep reading for a look at 11 times the "Game of Thrones" stars trolled fans.

Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) started the hardcore trolling of fans during the fourth season of "Game of Thrones."

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Her first time wading into the "spoilers" came with a photoshoot for Hunger TV. Headey and Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell) interviewed each other for this feature, but the real kicker came from the spoiler-ific pose the pair did. 

Headey placed both her thumbs over Pascal's eyes as he made a screaming face — a gesture which book readers knew was a nod at the way his character would gruesomely die by the end of the season. 

For show-only fans, this was pretty close to a spoiler given that Oberyn's death was meant to be a shocking conclusion to his trial-by-combat fight against The Mountain. 

Later that same month, Headey pulled a fast one on those same book readers who thought they knew what was coming.

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In the original books, it's revealed that Catelyn Stark was resurrected several days after the Red Wedding and is now exacting revenge on the Freys under the name Lady Stoneheart.

When the third season of "Game of Thrones"ended with no Stoneheart in sight, book readers thought Benioff and Weiss were simply holding her reveal for the fourth season. 

So when Headey shared an Instagram post with the caption "my stone heart" and a photo of a heart rock formation, people thought this was once again a nod to book readers who knew what was coming. 

But the fourth (and fifth and sixth and seventh) seasons of "Game of Thrones" came and went with no Lady Stoneheart. Instead, we just got confirmation that Headey enjoyed messing with fans who would inevitably pick apart her social feeds.

Headey continued getting into fans' heads when she wore a shirt saying "I'm not sorry" for her Jimmy Kimmel appearance.

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When Headey sat down for an interview on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" just after the season four finale, the "Game of Thrones" star seemed to be teasing those fans who fell for her Stoneheart troll. She wore a shirt that said "I'm not sorry" circled in a heart, but feigned ignorance when asked if she had purposefully messed with fans.

As reported by Vanity Fair's Joanna Robinson at the time, Headey told Kimmel she wasn't intentionally trying to rile up book readers.

"No, that was me drunk in Palm Springs going, 'This is so pretty,'" Headey said.

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