With Lena Headey using a body double for the season five Game of Thrones finale, where her character Cersei Lannister had to undergo a nude walk of shame, fans alleged that CGI had been used to enhance Headey's at-the-time pregnant body.
Entertainment Weekly have confirmed that special visual effects were used to help create the scene, with Headey first filming the walk wearing a beige body suit in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, and an actress named Rebecca Van Cleave repeating the walk naked.
Visual effect teams working on the show composited Headey's facial expressions onto the body of Van Cleave to create the final scene.
Winning the job over 1,000 other contenders, Van Cleave has described shooting her first nude scene as "one of the scariest, most wonderful, most gratifying experiences" she's ever had.
She added: "I never in a million years would have thought I would be in Dubrovnik surrounded by hundreds of extras and crew members throwing food at me, but it was amazing.
"Lena was so good about walking beside me and guiding me into what Cersei was thinking and the movements. We were playing tag team - 'You're it!' - and trying to make light of the fact we're all covered in everything and going through this together."
Offering her own views, Headey said: "It was a long process trying to find somebody who got what it means physically to be there with all that stuff going on, and Rebecca is a great actress.
"It takes a lot to walk through the crowd naked for three days in a row with the crowd braying at you."
The show's director David Nutter first spoke about the difficulties in filming the scene after the first transmission of the episode.
He said: "Lena went on an emotional journey through it. It was a situation in which you really felt like she was in excruciating physical and emotional turmoil and pain.
"I felt a little bit sorry for her, which is what I was going after."
Game of Thrones will return for its sixth season next year on HBO and Sky Atlantic.
Tagged in Game Of Thrones