Actress Emilia Clarke explained on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert why she refused to use a body double for the daring scenes in “Game of Thrones.”
In her appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016, actress Emilia Clarke explained why she didn’t need to use a body double for a daring scene in the sixth season of “Game of Thrones.”
The scene shows Emilia’s character, Daenerys Targaryen, setting a hut on fire to kill her enemies. The actress appears triumphant, untouched by the flames and also without clothes.
“I already did that in the first season, and people like to talk about it. So I just wanted to go out and do an empowered scene that wasn’t spicy,” she said.
Regarding the scene, Emilia shared in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that the last time she took off her clothes in the series was in the third season, released in 2013.
“Now it’s the sixth season. But this is me, proudly, with strength. I’m genuinely happy I said ‘Yes.’ It’s not a body double!” she expressed.
The HBO series premiered in 2011 and ended in 2019 with eight seasons. Emilia commented on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard in 2019 that she didn’t know she would have to act in spicy scenes and only found out when she received the scripts.
“I had just graduated from drama school and took it as a job: if it’s in the script, then clearly it’s necessary. That’s what it is, and I’m going to make sense of it and do it, and everything will be fine,” she said.
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