The latest Vanity Fair cover features five of the sexiest cast members of ‘Game of Thrones’: Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Lena Headey (Cersi Lannister), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) and Kit Harrington (Jon Snow), photographed by the amazing Annie Leibovitz.

David Benioff and co-creator D. B. Weiss told Vanity Fair that the show has a lifespan and they would like to wrap up the show after seven or eight seasons. Weiss says, “It doesn’t just keep on going because it can. I think the desire to milk more out of it is what would eventually kill it, if we gave in to that.”

Peter Dinklage discusses what drew him to the character of Tyrion Lannister, “It just seemed like something I had never come across before, especially in the fantasy genre, which I still refuse to call this, even though we have dragons. It is just something that I was so eager to embrace, because it turned the dwarf stereotype in the fantasy genre on its head. And he’s a hero at the same time.” Dinklage continues, “Even in The Lord of the Rings, which I really loved—I loved those books as a child and I adore Peter Jackson’s movies—but there’s just that thing with the dwarf stuff. That’s complete fantasy. I had done The Chronicles of Narnia, with the long beard and all of that, because I definitely wanted to explore that and have an opinion of it from the inside, but I just feel like this character, Tyrion, was a complete human being. Shock!”

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The new issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands on March 13th.

Behind-the-scenes footage from the photoshoot:

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[Via Vanity Fair]