Emilia Clarke, who is best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, admits the process of learning her speech in the season eight finale was “hell.”
In a featurette titled “Duty is the Death of Love” from the home release boxset of Game of Thrones season eight (via Entertainment Tonight), Clarke explains the anxiety of learning her lines for the monologue sequence – and how it all came together like “magic” in the end.
“I knew that speech was going to be really important, and I spent a huge amount of time learning it. And for the first time in my whole Game of Thrones career, I got that word perfect,” Clarke shares in the “Duty is the Death of Love” featurette. “I’m being so brutally honest here — I was in hell learning that speech. This pretend language was literally eating me up. I couldn’t do it.”
She added, “And then, magic happened. I woke up in the morning, went on, and it all came out. I was probably fighting not what I was fighting, but what Dany was doing.”
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The monologue in question ultimately led to Daenerys’ controversial demise when Jon Snow kills her after she burns Kings Landing to the ground killing thousands of innocent civilians in the process.
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