Yahoo News Vikings star Katheryn Winnick promises great ending for Lagertha
Vikings is set to come to an end after its sixth season, and one of its major players has promised a worthy ending for her character.
Katheryn Winnick plays Lagertha on the History show, and revealed that she will get a great conclusion when the show wraps-up this year.
She revealed to Entertainment Tonight that she told Vikings creator Michael Hirst to write her a character "that will challenge me".
She said: "[Hirst] wrote me, just recently, an email, and remembered that conversation, and it brought tears to my eyes.
"I'm just so blessed that I've had that opportunity to have a character that people worldwide recognise and look up to, especially right now, with everything that's happening with the #MeToo movement and Time's Up.
"I think right now, we need more role models like Lagertha. We need more women who speak out, and characters on TV that people look up to... someone that has substance, somebody that has true value, somebody that young girls can try to relate to and aspire to be.
"I'm blessed and honored to say that I believe Lagertha has had that influence, and we need more of her out there, or characters like her out there."
She added of a recent study that found female action heroes draw viewers: "I think now it's changing with women being in front of the camera and behind the camera and more women directors, more women writers, more women producers.
"When I read that [study], I was like, 'Yes, finally, there's proof that we can draw an audience!'"
Hirst previously revealed that the final season of Vikings will "deliver a huge and unexpected revelation to our audience," so we are expecting big things.
Vikings airs on History in the US and Amazon Prime Video in the UK.
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