Fresh from her Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has been speaking to the Los Angeles Times about the upcoming sixth season of HBO’s epic fantasy series and teasing what’s in store for Daenerys.
“It’s really exciting,” states Clarke. “Next season, I’ve said this before, but there’s a lot of season where you need to (rightly so) kind of need to set the scene. And you have a couple of episodes where you’re like, ‘OK, feeding information, I get it. We’re finding out about this person. And we know about that person. And oh, there’s that person.’ But this season coming up, that we’re about to film, there’s none of that. It’s just go, go, go, go. Shocking moment to shocking moment. Epic moment to epic moment. It’s mental; it’s epic. And definitely Dany’s a part of it.”
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And as for Dany’s character progression in season six, Clarke added that: “I think that she’s definitely on the upwards trajectory of truly learning from the mistakes that she’s made as a ruler. It’s not so much a matter of learning from the mistakes that have gone before her, but it’s a matter of her trusting herself and being confident in the decisions that she’s about to make. And being confident enough to stand next to those decisions and take full responsibility for them… I think there’s so much yet to come with Daenerys; she’s very exciting.”
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Game of Thrones season 6 will get underway on HBO in the spring. Follow all of our coverage here.
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Originally published July 20, 2015. Updated November 29, 2022.
