Emilia Clarke claimed her Game Of Thrones
Emilia Clarke claimed her Game Of Thrones bosses put pressure on her when she refused to do scenes she didn't feel comfortable with. The 33-year-old actress said nudity was not in the contract, but she felt she should do it anyway because she was new to the industry.
"I'm much wiser now with what I'm comfortable with and what I agree to do," Ella Clarke said. However, long ago she did not have that attitude when she did not like a scene or put some kind of impediment. When the series began to be shot, in July 2010, she was 22 years old. She was younger, more naive, she was starting her career and it was not easy to set limits. “I have had fights on the set. I said no, that I covered myself with a sheet. And they replied: 'You don't want to disappoint your fans'".
After the series ended, the British actress was more explicit about the pressures she received to undress her during her performance as Daenerys Targaryen.
Clarke was one of the main voices who spoke out against unnecessary nudity until she refused to expose her body to the cameras anymore. "I want to be known for my talent, not my breasts," she declared in 2015.
Now, with the show over after eight successful seasons, the actress has been even clearer when talking about the pressures she received to appear scantily clad. She even refused to shoot a scene on one occasion.
The star remembers that if she accepted all the nudity of the first seasons, it was because she was a first-time actress, without much previous experience in film or television. “I was just out of acting school,” she recalled. "I thought if she puts it in the script, it will clearly be necessary, this is what it is and everything will work out."
“I had never been on a shoot of this magnitude, and suddenly surrounded by all these people, not knowing what I was supposed to do, nor what was expected of me, nor what I wanted”, he added.
Jason Momoa, who played Daenerys's husband, Khal Drogo, encouraged his partner to only do what she felt comfortable doing. “It was definitely difficult. That's why the scenes, when I was able to do them with Jason, were wonderful."
These statements come eight months after the actress revealed that she suffered two aneurysms after recording the first season. She did so in an article she wrote for The New Yorker where she confessed that she felt overwhelmed by the success of the series: “She was terrified. Terrified of attention, of a business she barely understood. I felt, in every way, exposed. In the first episode I appeared from then on I always asked myself the same question: 'You play a strong woman and yet you take off your clothes. Why? How many men must I kill to prove my worth?
Clarke is promoting Last Christmas, a Christmas romantic comedy. She shares the bill with the new Hollywood heartthrob Henry Golding (A Small Favor) and with Emma Thompson, also responsible for the script. Set in London during Christmas 2017, the production unfolds to the music of George Michael and the British pop duo Wham!, which includes the classic Christmas theme that gives it its title.
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