“Game of Thrones” returns for its seventh and penultimate season in just over a week, but Lena Headey isn’t content just to bask in the mega hit’s success. The actress is already hard at work building on the profile she’s built playing Cersei Lannister. She dished on some of her upcoming projects in a recent interview with the New York Times.

Back in 2015 it was reported that the “300” star acquired the film rights to Helen Macdonald’s best-selling, award-winning memoir “H Is for Hawk.” According to the Times, Headey is now set to star in and produce the feature with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The book chronicles Macdonald’s unconventional grieving process. She dealt with the sudden loss of her father by adopting and training a goshawk.

Headey is also developing “a dream project about Grace O’Malley, a female pirate in 16th-century Ireland.”

The Times suggests that Headey’s decision to work behind the scenes is at least partly a reaction to the fact that “evil queen roles [keep] rolling in.” Frustrated by being typecast as her “Game of Thrones” character, the actress has channeled her energy into creating roles for herself. Plus, she “hopes to create more opportunities for female filmmakers, she said, and also do some directing herself.” (We’re wondering if the Times asked Headey her feelings about the fact that not a single female director has been hired to helm an episode of “Game of Thrones” since Michelle MacLaren directed two eps in Season 3. Every episode in Seasons 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 of the fantasy drama have been directed by men — and all of the upcoming seventh season was, too.)

Headey has earned three Emmy nods for her role on “Game of Thrones.” Her other credits include “The Purge” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”