Emilia Clarke"I cried in the bathroom before recording the n-de scenes in 'Game of Thrones'"
Not even the scenes of battles or deaths during the recording of Game of Thrones were as difficult for Emilia Clarke as the n-de ones.
Initially her role as Daenerys Targaryen required her to take off her clothes quite often in front of the camera. In fact, in her first scene she already appears uncovered.
She "was crying in the bathroom" before certain scenes she acknowledges. "But that was true of any other one that included nudity or not," the actress said on actor Dax Shepard's podcast.
Back then, Clarke did believe she needed to be n-ked for the story, but if she had to film the series today she would be quite different.
Originally from London, the actress landed the role that changed her life when she was 23 years old. It was her great leap in the audiovisual industry.
Frequent n-des
"I took the job and then they sent me the scripts, and when I was reading them I was like, 'Oh, there's the catch,'" she said on the podcast.
"But I was just out of drama school and so I just saw it as a job," she said.
"If it's in the script then it clearly needs to be done, this is what it is and I'm going to make sense of it. It's all going to be great."
Strong experience
"She had been on set twice before and then she was on the same set completely n-ked with all these people, not knowing what she was supposed to do," she added.
"I didn't know what was expected of me, I didn't know what they wanted from me and I didn't know what I wanted," she recalled.
"Regardless of whether there was nudity or not, I spent that first season thinking I wasn't worthy of asking for anything."
The actress confessed that she said to herself, "Even if she feels something is wrong (in the scene), I'm going to cry in the bathroom, then I'll come back and we'll do the scene and everything will be fine."
Clarke commented that her partner and her co-star Jason Momoa, who played her abusive husband and her warlord, helped her in the early chapters.
And, despite the fact that she thinks we live in "changing times for nudity," she wouldn't alter the way the series was shot between 2009 and 2010.
"I've gotten a lot of people talking about Khaleesi's nudity on the show. But people wouldn't have cared about it if they hadn't seen her being abused. So she had to do it that way."
"Things are very, very different. I'm much smarter with what I'm comfortable with and what I agree to do."
HBO and the creators of Game Of Thrones were unsuccessfully contacted for comment on Clarke's claims.
