It’s been five months since Game Of Thrones came to an end, but Daenerys Targaryen will always be a part of Emilia Clarke.
The HBO alum chatted with Daily Telegraph all about how her iconic eight-year-role gave her some major “lady balls,” and the demise which still has fans talking.
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So what exactly did Clarke learn from portraying Khaleesi? There’s quite a lot, she explained (below):
“Oh my goodness, she taught me about lady balls. She taught me what it feels like to be in a room and be heard. She wielded such power, calmness and such poise.
She had a fierce intensity and made some incredibly tough choices. In Season 3, she had to start busting some balls, and as a 25-year-old standing in front of 500 extras, 150 crew members, six cameras, a drone, dragons and fire, I had to bring it.
I felt like if I can do that, then the red carpet doesn’t feel so scary to me at all. So there’s a certain kind of self-belief that rubs off on you as a person.”
Her next role, Last Christmas, is a pretty big departure from the character many came to know and love (or hate), but the 32-year-old luckily doesn’t feel too much pressure about what’s to come with her professional career:
“I don’t feel pressure to follow up the show because it’s unfollowable. I’m not going to go off and be like ‘Oh well, dragons are my thing…’ I can’t be a crazy woman demanding dragons forever! ‘These aren’t as good as my last dragons!’ Can you imagine? [Laughs.]”
As for how she coped with the ending of the Iron Throne hopeful which came at the hand of Kit Harington‘s character and left many disappointed, things weren’t as hard for her as they may have seemed:
“I don’t Google myself; I don’t read reviews. Which makes it sounds like I’ve got my s**t together, but it doesn’t help me to hear someone say, ‘You’re great,’ and it doesn’t help me to hear someone say, ‘Hey, you piece of s**t, why are you so fat?’ Those are the extremes you deal with when you read about yourself on the internet, so I simply don’t.”
She continued, sharing:
“I was too busy focusing on my own reactions to really pay too much attention, if any at all. The only thing I felt truthfully sad about was that [executive producers] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] are my really good friends, and so it’s for them that I feel heartbreak, because it’s theirs.”
You rock, Khaleesi!
[Image via Ivan Nikolov/WENN.]
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