MY GAME OF GUILT
Thrones star Emilia says show bosses tried to shame her into more nude scenes so she ‘wouldn’t let down the fans’
GAmE Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke claims the show producers tried to pressure her into repeated nude scenes.
The British actress says she did not agree to appearing naked on screen when, aged 23 and fresh out of drama school, she landed the role of Daenerys Targaryen.
But in her naivity she went along with it. When she became a bit more wise and started putting her foot down bosses tried to tell her she would be disappointing her fans if she didn;t strip off.
‘I’m a lot more savvy [now] with what I’m comfortable with, and what I am okay with doing,’ miss Clarke, 33, said in a US interview.
‘I’ve had fights on set before where I’m like, “No, the sheet stays up”, and they’re like, “You don’t wanna disappoint your Game Of Thrones fans”.’
Having previously insisted that she ‘wouldn’t redo a single part’ of her role, she admits the amount of nudity in the first season, shown in 2011, was ‘overwhelming’ – she had more sex scenes than any other character.
‘They sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was, like,
“Oh, there’s the catch!”,’ miss Clarke, who appeared in the fantasy drama throughout its eight-year run, told the podcast Armchair Expert. ‘I’d come fresh from drama school and I approached [it] as a job – if it’s in the script then it’s clearly needed.
‘I’ve never been on a film set like this before... and I’m now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don’t know what I’m meant to do... and I don’t know what you want and I don’t know what I want. Regardless of there being nudity or not, I would have spent that first season thinking I’m not worthy.’
miss Clarke, currently starring in the romcom Last Christmas said Jason momoa – who played her lover Khal Drogo in the first season of Game Of Thrones – encouraged her to only do what she felt comfortable with. ‘He was like, “No, sweetie, this isn’t okay”,’ she said.
Last year miss Clarke told a magazine she did not see momoa nude, while her character was completely naked. Representatives for HBO, which screened Game Of Thrones, and its creators D B Weiss and David Benioff were contacted for comment.
‘I had fights on the set’