Emilia Clarke said she had been told on certain projects that it would disappoint „ Game of Thrones“ fans if she didn’t perform a nude scene.
It's one of many cities buckling under the weight of overtourism.Įmilia Clarke as Daenerys on season one of "Game of Thrones." HBO
Emilia Clarke stopped Googling herself and reading reviews within a year after 'Game of Thrones' premiered."Which is why the scenes, when I got to do them with Jason, were wonderful, because he was like, 'No, sweetie, this isn't OK.' And I was like, 'Ohhhh.'"Ĭlarke is now starring in "Last Christmas," Paul Feig's festive romcom, alongside the "Crazy Rich Asians" actor Henry Golding. She went on to explain that it was only while working with the "Aquaman" actor Jason Momoa, who played her on-screen love interest Khal Drogo, that she realized that she could set her own rules about how much of her body she was willing to show. Whatever I'm feeling is wrong, I'm gonna cry in the bathroom and then I'm gonna come back and we're gonna do the scene and it's gonna be completely fine." "Regardless of there being nudity or not, I would have spent that first season thinking I'm not worthy of requiring anything, I'm not worthy of needing anything at all. I'd been on a film set twice before then, 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's expected of me, and I don't know what you want and I don't know what I want.ĭaenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo Game of Thrones vision HBO I've never been on a film set like this before.
She continued: "So I came to terms with that beforehand, but then going in and doing it … I'm floating through this first season and I have no idea what I'm doing, I have no idea what any of this is. "But I'd come fresh from drama school, and I approached as a job - if it's in the script, then it's clearly needed, this is what this is, and I'm gonna make sense of it … Everything's gonna be cool." "I took the job and then they sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was, like, 'Oh, there's the catch!'" she remembered. "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.' And I'm like, 'F- you.'"Ĭlarke also revealed that she felt overwhelmed by what she described as the "f- ton of nudity" in the first season of "Game of Thrones." "I'm a lot more savvy with what I'm comfortable with, and what I am OK with doing," she said. While discussing on-screen nudity with Dax Shepard on his podcast " Armchair Expert," the " Last Christmas" actor recalled being asked to perform a nude scene she hadn't agreed to in advance.
The " Last Christmas" star told Dax Shepard on his podcast " Armchair Expert" that she refused to be nude in a project as she wasn't told in advance.Emilia Clarke said she had been told on certain projects that it would disappoint " Game of Thrones" fans if she didn't perform a nude scene.