The Game of Thrones actress would lock herself in the bathroom to cry and drink vodka to force herself. Jason Momoa helped her oppose some forcing, while the producers blackmailed her: "Don't you want to let your fans down?"
I have not watched the series Game of Thrones in a continuous way, I liked it because of the development of some characters, and I left it because the way in which exaggerated s-x scenes were imposed on me as a spectator annoyed me. It annoys me that scripts are written assuming that the story is not enough, and that the viewer stays glued to the screen only if you give them hot scenes. I liked the plot a lot, it's something else that has distanced me.
I am not puritanical nor do I have a low tolerance for violence. I'm not shocked by a n-ked breast, but I feel like the object of violence when intim-te scenes are freely offered to me in which the s-xual relationship is always extreme, explicit, aimed only at stimulating the base instincts of the viewer. They are stealing our imagination, directing it towards absolutely perverse scenarios, pushing us to associate s-x only with a realm of pure hedonism in which everything is legal and no authentic bond counts.
This is not only the case with Game of Thrones, but with an increasing number of films, whose bitter collateral effect is to plagiarize our imaginary; They suggest to us: «Look how easygoing and happy the stars are, if they do it, it means that it is the most satisfactory way». It is insinuated without much dissimulation that the idea that the intim-cy between man and woman, to be satisfactory, has to abide by those canons, and I dare to say that it is just the other way around.
And it is assumed that young people allow themselves to be convinced by this continuous brainwashing, and that even young women feel compelled to repeat the gestures of certain television models in order to be loved in reality. Perhaps they believe that the boy they have fallen in love with expects this of them, although this is something that embarrasses her.
Therefore, it is good to give space to Emilia Clarke's recent statements, especially showing them to those who are still fragile and unprotected from an emotional and affective point of view. The actresses don't feel at all comfortable shooting certain scenes, because they are not normal, but something forced imposed by the producers, who are only interested in taking extremes one step further... with the sole purpose of making money.
The mother of dragons, in the midst of the wolves of showbiz
During the first season she – she remembers her – she had no idea what she was doing, what she had in front of her. I had never been on a set like this, I had been on a movie set like twice before then, and at that moment I was on a set completely n-ked, with all these people, not knowing what I had to do, what was expected from me, what they wanted and what I wanted.
Invited by actor Dax Shepard on his podcast Armchair Expert, Emilia Clarke plunged into the past to remember what happened in 2010: she was only 23 years old, had just graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts and accepted the role of the iconic Daenerys Targaryen, which was going to change his life.
She was very young and inexperienced, it is not wrong to think that the producers of Game of Thrones took advantage of the situation for her benefit.
In the past, while the series was being shot, Clarke defended and even applauded the production's racy scenes. Today, now free of that context, the actress judges with much more negative accents the experience to which the launch of her career is undoubtedly due, but which has left harsh marks on her.
There are no misunderstandings when she, before Shepard's microphone, uses the adjective "terrifying" to express how she felt when shooting certain s-x scenes: we are in the semantic sphere of trauma, of terrible fright. Many publications have collected her words:
"They had given me the part, and they had sent me the scripts to read them - says the actress in the podcast - and when I got to those scenes I felt a little like, 'oh shit, what now?' But I was fresh out of drama school, and to me work was work. She thought: if it's written in the script, you have to do it. Don't worry, everything will be fine." But those n-de scenes and s-x scenes made her feel "outmatched," also because "regardless of them, I spent the entire first season thinking she wasn't worth asking for anything. And then I locked myself in the bathroom to cry.
In addition to crying in the bathroom, he confessed to having taken refuge in drinking to react to such a strong impact, with something that obviously disgusted him or of which he was ashamed. On the other side of the cameras were the producers, really voracious wolves on the hunt for prey, and I think I'm not entirely cynical towards them if I say that they had calculated well, and cruelly, every move. I wish I was wrong.
In short, Emilia was a very young actress, without the backbone of experience to make her say no! when required. And even more – dare I say – she had just the innocent aspect of a girl, and I want to observe that there is more and more this generalized presence of s-xual scenes that have young people with a very childish aspect as protagonists. Is it just my impression?
Fortunately, on the set there were not only shady characters who, as Emilia Clarke always remembers, answered every question: "You don't want to disappoint Danerys fans?" During the first series, he was particularly close, with great concern, to the actor Jason Momoa, who played the role of Khal Drogo, to whom Daenarys is given as his wife. The first relationship between the two is precisely a violation.
In the podcast, Shepard recalled a scene from the first season, in which Momoa's character, Khal Drogo, rapes Daenerys on their wedding night. “He cried more than I did,” Clarke remembers. “Only now do I realize how lucky I was, because that recording could have gone many, many, many different ways,” she says. "Jason had more experience, he was an experienced actor, he helped me by saying: 'Honey, this is either good, not good at all... He always said: Can we get him a fucking robe? He is shaking! “…He was very kind and considerate and cared about me as a human being”
Curious. Behind the lights this scene is revealed in which the man, violent on stage, actually cares and points the finger at the real abusers. Let's not fall into the trap of cinematographic appearances: let's not take for granted that on set the actors have fun representing the erotic dreams of those who speculate on everything.
Intim-cy is something that should remain intim-te not because of the diktat of a forced moralism, but because it is truly beautiful that it is so. Emilia's discomfort in exhibiting that s-xual cruelty demonstrates something they want us to forget: a man and a woman deserve to live fully and in secret their most intim-te encounter. S-x is not taboo, but it is sacrosanctly private.
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As a corollary to these statements by Emilia Clarke, we must remember that she was not the only one who felt forced and upset on the set of Game of Thrones. Some claim that to find actresses for certain roles, they had to go to the world of porn (Jessica Jenson, Samantha Bentley, Aeryn Walker and Sibel Kekilli) because many others refused to shoot such racy scenes. And those behind the camera didn't feel too comfortable either:
One episode director, Neil Marshall, said that producers constantly invited him to go further: "The most absurd thing [in directing Game of Thrones] was always having an executive producer at your back who suggested 'Come on, shoot the scene full frontal, this is television, you can do what you want. Do it, I insist you do it’” (Lifesite)
Did you know that the biggest porn industries complained that every time an episode of Game of Thrones was released, porn web traffic plummeted? It seems eloquent to me.
