EMILIA’S AT ROCK BOTTOM

Thrones is a load of bull

GAME of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has been handed a really bum deal – thanks to a mechanical bull.

The beauty, who plays Daenerys Targaryen in the show, is often seen soaring through the sky on her firebreathing dragons.

But to film the epic scenes, she spends days simulating the flights on an automated bull, inset. And it’s left her petite backside black and blue.

She said: “I’ve been on the dragons so much I have saddle sores.”

On one occasion, she spent so long being hurled around on the bucking beast that she was left too dizzy to even walk.

Emilia had to be helped back to her trailer and director Matt Shakman was so worried he asked producers to ensure a massage therapist with a supply of ice-packs was on hand to ease her pain.

But a soure on the set said: “Everybody was joking that if her character finally does claim her throne, poor Emilia would be in no shape to actually sit on it. She U.S Editor was able to see the humorous side of it all too, even though she was clearly in agony at times.” All of Emilia’s painful sessions on the bull were shot in front of a green screen, with digital artists later placing her body on computer-generated dragons to create flight scenes. The source added: “Daenerys and her dragons – especially her favourite, Drogon – are very much at the centre of all the action, so her suffering will not have been in vain.” Emilia, who is on £2million per episode for Game of Thrones’ seventh season – which starts tomorrow on Sky Atlantic – said in a US interview: “Daenerys doesn’t want to simply wipe out anyone who disagrees with her. “She wants to break the wheel, get in the power seat and enact change.” And even though getting to that seat might be painful for the actress, she added: “This season’s airborne scenes are truly spectacular. I think our fans are going to get very excited.” One battle scene shows a Hollywood record 73 stunt extras burn to death at the same time after being roasted by Drogon.